New Delhi: Foreign universities entering into agreement with their Indian counterparts for offering twinning programmes will have to be among the global top 500. The Indian varsities on the other hand, should have received the highest accreditation grade, according to the new set of guidelines approved by University Grants Commission (UGC) on Saturday. "The underlining objective is to ensure that only quality institutes are permitted for offering the twinning programmes...
07:47 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: The site for online registration for the University Grants Commissions (UGC's) National Eligibility Test (NET) aspirants at www.ugcnetonline.in is up and running as IBNLive checked out on the morning of May 3. This is the first time that UGC has started accepting applications online. Candidates attempting to enroll themselves on the site had experienced problems on May 2 which a UGC spokesperson attributed to unprecedented heavy traffic. The...
10:21 AM, May 03, 2012
Washington: An estimated 240,000 Indian immigrants are among 11.5 million foreigners living illegally in the United States without proper immigration documents, according to latest official figures. The flow of Indians coming clandestinely to the US has, in fact, doubled between 2000 and 2011, said the latest report by the US Department of Homeland Security. During the same period the total number of illegal foreign immigrants increased from 8.46 million to...
11:07 AM, Mar 24, 2012
London: UK Prime Minister David Cameron government is putting in place tighter border controls that include checking details of all passengers travelling to Britain from India and other non-EU countries from April. Detailing the new system called 'e-Borders', Immigration Minister Damian Green said there will be clear rules into the correct level of checks for every type of passenger and all types of goods that cross the UK border. The...
03:23 PM, Mar 15, 2012
When I first started reading, 'Homesick' by Roshi Fernando, it came to be like any other book of displaced families and forgotten voices. Of the second generation and third generations, wanting to search themselves and what they stand for. However, though the book did run on these lines, it had a different voice to it. 'Homesick' is a book of many layers and each layer has a unique and original...
08:16 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: A sudden spurt in employment opportunities in Bihar is posing a peculiar problem for the rest of the country. More than 50 per cent of Bihar's labour force which usually migrates to other states is choosing to stay back for jobs. Till a few years back, Ram Vilas worked as construction labour in Delhi. With Bihar's economy looking up, Vilas has returned to the pavilion, armed with a...
06:28 AM, Nov 18, 2011
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday revived the idea of immigrants from India and other non-EU countries furnishing financial bonds before being allowed to come to Britain, a move that has been promptly opposed. In a major speech setting out how his government intended to curb immigration, he said that officials had been asked to consider making financial bonds compulsory for British citizens seeking to bring spouses or...
09:19 PM, Oct 10, 2011
In his award-winning documentary 'Last Train Home', director Lixin Fan draws attention to the plight of migrant Chinese workers living in far-flung industrial cities and the strain they inflict on the country's infrastructure when some 130 million of them make their annual journey back home for the Chinese New Year. It's a film that highlights the social costs of the Chinese economic miracle. It's a film about disillusionment and displacement....
11:30 AM, Sep 15, 2011
New York: A mother is lecturing her 23-year-old daughter about her love life, flailing a kitchen knife above her head for emphasis. Mom's point: She'd like her immigrant daughter, from the former Soviet republic of Moldova, to marry a man with similar roots, keeping the family's East European Jewish tradition. Alas, the daughter informs mom that she's already dating a Hispanic man. But she soon dumps him, on-camera, during a...
10:10 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Rome: The Italian coast guard found the bodies of 25 men who were apparently asphyxiated by motor fumes on a small boat crammed with African migrants that arrived on an Italian island from Libya on Monday, officials said. The boat arrived on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after a three-day voyage carrying 296 people from sub-Saharan Africa, the latest in a wave of arrivals since a western alliance began a...
02:03 AM, Aug 02, 2011
Mumbai: MNS chief Raj Thackeray has once again targeted north Indians, saying that migrant influx is responsible for the rising terror attacks in Mumbai. Coming down heavily on migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the MNS chief said that it was imperative to monitor people coming to the city from outside. He also hit out at state Samajwadi Party chief Abu Asim Azmi for expressing sympathy with the 13/7 triple...
07:13 AM, Jul 19, 2011
Khartuom: A ship carrying African migrants bound for Saudi Arabia has caught fire and 197 people are feared drowned off Sudan's northeastern coast, a semiofficial news agency reported on Tuesday. The Sudan Media Center said three of the migrants were rescued. The ship had launched from the Red Sea State and sailed for four hours in Sudanese territorial waters before the blaze began, according to the news agency. Local authorities...
02:20 AM, Jul 06, 2011
London: Newly discovered documents indicate that the British government concealed how often it administered so-called "virginity tests" to female immigrants from India hoping to enter the country in the 1970s on marriage visas. The documents, unearthed by legal researchers Marinella Marmo and Evan Smith from Australia's Flinders University, showed that the tests meant to prove that women coming into Britain to marry were virgins had been administered more than 80...
10:24 AM, May 10, 2011
Watch how The Citizen Journalist show helped rescue five-year-old Karnit Shah and helped in stopping the construction of an illegal building. ...
10:15 PM, Apr 24, 2011
Rome: A train carrying Tunisian immigrants from Italy was halted at the French border on Sunday in an escalation of an international dispute over the fate of North African migrants fleeing political unrest for refuge in Europe. A spokesman for the Italian rail company, Maurizio Furia, told The Associated Press in Rome that the train carrying migrants and political activists who support them wasn't being allowed to pass into Menton,...
10:38 PM, Apr 17, 2011
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