Tweet Hyderabad/New Delhi: A 26-year-old student from Hyderabad was critically injured in an attack by unidentified assailants in London late Friday night. External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna spoke to India’s envoy to Britain, asking him to extend all possible help to him. This was the fourth attack on Indians in Britain the last two months.... 

Tweet Washington: The United States has assured India that it was “continuing to work” on the issue of hundreds of Indian students affected by the “horrible visa scam” by California based “sham” Tri-Valley University. Some 85 percent of over 1500 TVU students were Indian, mostly from Andhra Pradesh. US authorities... 

Tweet Melbourne: Even while the number of international students coming to Australia continues to fall, Malaysia has replaced India as the second largest source of students in the field of Higher Education. As a result, the losses suffered by the Australia international education sector have ballooned to $2 billion in the last one year. While China... 

Tweet Washington: Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao has asked US authorities to view the cases of hundreds of Indian students affected by the closure of “sham” Tri-Valley University in a “fair and reasonable manner”. The Indian students of Tri-Valley University have undergone hardship since the closure of the university and... 

Tweet Sydney: Immigration authorities in Australia have cancelled 15,066 foreign student visas in the last one year, and the worst hit are Indians. Of the total, 3,624 students lost their visas because they flunked in some or all subjects or were no-shows to class, the Herald Sun reported. This was a 37 percent rise in visa cancellation. Visa cancellations... 

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Tweet   New Delhi: With the US immigration authorities raiding the University of Northern Virginia (UNVA) on suspicion of visa fraud, the external affairs ministry here said Friday that the investigation was against the varsity and not against its Indian students. It also clarified that the UNVA was not being shut down immediately, but will... 

Tweet Washington/New Delhi : Another US educational institution with hundreds of Indian students has come under the scanner with dozens of agents raiding offices at the University of  Northern Virginia. This prompted the US embassy in New Delhi to urge prospective Indian students to thoroughly research educational institutes based in US. Based... 

Tweet Washington: As another US university came under the scanner, the United States asked Indian students to be alert to the existence of “predatory visa fraud rings and fraudulent document vendors.” “We are looking into this matter, we’re following the case closely, and we’re in communication with the Government...