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Missing Indian student found dead in Ohio

Our deepest condolences to Mr Mohammed Arfath’s family, the Consulate General of India in New York said in a post on X, It said that all possible assistance is being extended to the bereaved family to transport his mortal remains to India...reports Asian Lite News

An Indian student who has been missing since March this year has been found dead in the US state of Ohio, the Consulate General of India in New York said on Tuesday.

The Consulate said it is “anguished” to learn about the death of Mohammed Abdul Arfath and is in touch with local authorities to ensure a thorough investigation into his death. “Anguished to learn that Mr. Mohammed Abdul Arfath, for whom search operation was underway, was found dead in Cleveland, Ohio.

Our deepest condolences to Mr Mohammed Arfath’s family, the Consulate General of India in New York said in a post on X, It said that all possible assistance is being extended to the bereaved family to transport his mortal remains to India. Arafat, a native of Hyderabad, went to the US for his Master’s degree in IT from Cleveland University in May 2023 but was missing since March 7 this year. His father, Mohd Saleem, said that after ten days, they received a phone call from an unidentified person who claimed Arafat had been kidnapped and demanded for a USD 1200 ransom for his release. On March 21, the Consulate General of India in New York said they are in touch with Arfath’s family and authorities in the US to find him. “@IndiainNewYork is in touch with the Mr. Mohammad Abdul Arfath’s family and authorities in the US.

We are working with local law enforcement agencies to find him at the earliest,” the Consulate General of India in New York posted on X. It had made the statement on X in response to a post that mentioned that 25-year-old Hyderabad student had gone missing and his father received a call to pay a ransom of USD 1200. Recently the Indian community has seen a rise of such tragedies. Last week Uma Satya Sai Gadde, an Indian student in Cleveland, Ohio died and police investigation is underway. Earlier this February, an Indian student faced a brutal attack in Chicago. Following the attack, the Indian Consulate in Chicago stated that it was in touch with the victim, Syed Mazahir Ali, as well as his wife in India. (ANI)

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Another Indian Student Dies in US, Probe Underway

A police car is seen near the scene of mass shooting in Dayton of Ohio, the United States, on Aug. 4, 2019. Local police on Sunday identified the suspect of a shooting spree in the city of Dayton, U.S. state of Ohio, as Connor Betts, a 24-year-old white male. In a press conference, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley said it took less than a minute for the shooter to claim the lives of nine people, including Betts' 22-year-old sister Megan Betts, before being killed by the police. (Xinhua/Liu Jie/IANS)

Police investigations are on and efforts are underway to send the body to India, the New York consulate said, reports Yashwant Raj

 Another Indian student enrolled in a US university has died, the Indian consulate in New York reported on Friday.

“Deeply saddened by the unfortunate demise of Mr. Uma Satya Sai Gadde, an Indian student in Cleveland, Ohio,” it said in a post on X.

Police investigations are on and efforts are underway to send the body to India, the consulate said, adding that it continues to remain in touch with the family in India.

“All possible assistance is being extended including to transport Mr. Uma Gadde’s mortal remains to India at the earliest.”

There has been a spate of deaths of students from India and of Indian descent in recent weeks. Although unrelated, they have raised concerns in India and the Indian American community.

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Indian student among ’50 voices of 2023′

Commenting on being featured as one of the most influential 50 voices, Sanam Arora said “I’m honoured to be named as one of the “50 voices of 2023” alongside such legends of international education…reports Asian Lite News

In a first-of-its kind list curated to reflect the most influential voices in the European International Higher Education sector, Sanam Arora, Founder and Chairperson of the National Indian Students and Alumni Union UK (NISAU) has been featured as one of the “key influencers”.

The list of the 50 “people behind the policy”1 features sector stalwarts including Members of UK Parliament such as Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE DL, Chancellor of the University of Birmingham and President of the UK Council of Student Affairs; Sir Steve Smith, the UK Government’s International Higher Education Champion; Piet Van Hove, President of the European Association for Higher Education; Stig Arne Skjerven, Norway’s Special Envoy and Deputy Permanent Representative to UNESCO; Vivienne Stern, CEO of Universities UK which is the representative body for UK universities; Phil Baty, Chief Global Affairs Officer of Times Higher Education; Diana Beech, CEO of London Higher, which represents London’s universities and Sandra Rincon, Chair of the European Association for International Education.

Commenting on being featured as one of the most influential 50 voices, Sanam Arora said “I’m honoured to be named as one of the “50 voices of 2023” alongside such legends of international education. Ten years ago, when we started NISAU we had no idea how we would go about influencing policy – we just knew that the welfare of Indian students should be a key priority for the whole of the UK Higher Education system and developed our own set of tools and strategies over the years to effectuate real and on-ground impact at scale for Indian students abroad. Today it just seems incredible and so humbling to be named as a key influencer for our work in bringing about positive change for Indian students. We will keep working harder to ensure that the student voice becomes the heart of international student policymaking in the UK and beyond.”

This recognition comes hot off the heels of Sanam recently being named as the youngest Commissioner for the UK’s newly formed International Higher Education Commission2 which has been tasked with developing recommendations for a new ‘International Education Strategy 2.0’ in partnership with the higher education community. The Commission is chaired by the Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP, former Universities Minister of the UK.

A few months prior to this, Sanam was awarded the ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Higher Education Industry’ award at the prestigious PIEoneer awards3, which celebrate the best of international higher education. At the same event, the NISAU also won the ‘Best Student Support’ award and was runner up for the ‘Association of the Year’. These awards are in recognition of the NISAU’s work in the International Higher Education space, supporting thousands of Indians abroad through the Covid crisis and the war in Ukraine.

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Indian student wins top UK university scholarship

Singh, who was “grateful” to have been awarded the scholarship, said that his personal experiences with mental health lay behind his choice of course…reports Asian Lite News

 An Indian student from Bengaluru has won a prestigious scholarship worth 5,000 pounds, which is awarded to an undergraduate pursuing any of the 24 subjects offered at the University of Dundee, UK.

Rajvir Singh, 18, who studies Psychology and French at the University of Dundee, will receive the 2022 Jainti Dass Saggar Memorial Scholarship for Excellence, which supports a student who aims to give back to their community.

The award which, is given to one aspiring student from India each year, honours Scotland’s first non-white elected politician and doctor Jainti Dass Saggar, who travelled all the way from Punjab to study at the University over 100 years ago.

Saggar went on to use his medical education to help transform the lives of people living in the city of Dundee, and served as the city councillor for 18 years until his death in 1954.

Singh, who was “grateful” to have been awarded the scholarship, said that his personal experiences with mental health lay behind his choice of course.

“I wanted to study psychology because, like many others, I have struggled with mental health. Even though support is available in India, there’s a lot of social stigma around it… I’m very grateful to have been awarded the Saggar Scholarship,” Singh said in astatement.

“My hope is to use my education to become a therapist, so I can be the kind of support for others that I didn’t always get,” he added.

Singh has also been awarded the Global Excellence Scholarship worth 6,000 pounds per year, which is given to students who show excellence through their academic activities and have travelled internationally to study in the UK.

“The UK is really good for psychology. The BPS (British Psychological Society) accredited courses are amongst the best in the world, so I wanted to come to the UK,” he added.

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BJP MLA’s shocker on killed student

He was responding to questions on the uncertainty over when Naveen’s body would be brought back to Haveri, his hometown…reports Asian Lite News

As the family of Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagowda, the student killed in Ukraine, wait for his body to be flown back to Karnataka, a BJP MLA has stirred up a controversy with his comment that “a dead body takes up more space in a flight”.

Arvind Bellad, the BJP MLA representing the Hubli-Dharwad constituency in Karnataka, said instead of a coffin, nearly eight to 10 people can be accommodated on the plane.

He was responding to questions on the uncertainty over when Naveen’s body would be brought back to Haveri, his hometown.

“The government is putting in effort to bring back the mortal remains of Naveen. Ukraine is a war zone and everyone is aware of it. Efforts are being made and if possible, the body will be brought back,” Bellad told reporters.

“While it is very challenging to bring back those who are alive, it has become even more difficult to bring back the dead because a dead body will consume more space on the flight. Instead, eight to 10 persons can be accommodated in place of a dead body, which would consume more space,” said the BJP leader.

He added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making all efforts to try and bring back Naveen’s body.

Naveen’s father Shekharappa Gyanagowda had told NDTV on Wednesday that he was assured by the government his body would be brought home “within two days”. He said he had requested both PM Modi and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to help bring his son’s body home.

Naveen, 21, who was studying medicine at the Kharkiv National Medical University, was in a queue outside a grocery store when he was killed in Russian shelling on a government building.

He had been staying in a bunker with other students and had stepped out to stock up on food before catching a train to the border on Tuesday, according to his roommate.

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Rs 2.15 crore package for IIT Roorkee student

Around 1,243 students have bagged job offers in the placement drive that concluded on December 16…reports Asian Lite News.

A student of IIT (Roorkee) has bagged Rs 2.15 crore package per annum offer from a multinational firm in the placement drive.

Three students of the institute have bagged annual cost offer of Rs 1.30 crore to Rs 1.8 crore from domestic companies.

Around 1,243 students have bagged job offers in the placement drive that concluded on December 16.

Eleven students of IIT (Roorkee) have bagged job offer of Rs 1 crore per annum.

IIT Roorkee said that 281 companies had participated in campus placement drive which took place from December 1 to 16.

The companies included Accenture Japan Limited, Amazon, American Express, Arup India Private Limited, Bank of America, Cisco, Dream 11,

EXL Service, Flipkart, Goldman Sachs, Havells India Limited, Hindustan Uniliver Limited, ICICI Bank, intel, JP Morgan, Larsen and Toubro, and Microsoft.

These companies offered 1,243 jobs, of which 32 were multinational.

Talking about the placement drive, Professor In-Charge Placement and Internship IIT (Roorkee) Vinay Sharma said the corona pandemic has brought directional changes in the placement scenario.

“For that, we made a strategy under which we focused on companies which are doing fine in the areas of Artificial intelligence, Software network, Analytics, e-commerce, FMCG. We also ensured a lot of diversity in the profiles resulting in students being selected as per their interests,” he explained.

“Besides this, we did an in-depth analysis of the economic developments across the world and accordingly collaborated with firms which were doing well,” Prof Sharma added.

“With all the above strategies in place we performed very well and grabbed multinational as well as domestic offers,” he added.

Prior to placement season, sessions were organised to know areas of interest of the students, he said, adding that the institute approached the leading firms accordingly.

Professor Sharma said, “As our placement data for 2021-22 signify, the students of IIT Roorkee are consistently performing well in all the profiles and they are recognised as top class human resource.”

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MEA Extends Help to Stranded Students in India

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This comes in the backdrop of problems being faced by international students owing to COVID-19 restrictions imposed by several countries, reports Asian Lite News

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Saturday asked the Indian students studying abroad to contact their OIA-II Division if they are currently stuck in India due to COVID-19 restrictions or have other similar issues.

In a tweet, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, said: “Kind Attention! Indian students studying abroad but stuck in India due to COVID-19 and related issues can get in touch with the OIA-II Division at @MEAIndia.”

Bagchi also shared two emails for students who are facing mobility issues due to the pandemic.

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“Indian students studying abroad who are stuck in India owing to Covid-19 pandemic restrictions and mobility issues can send their coordinates, that is, email ID and mobile number to OIA-II Division at Emails: us.oia2@mea.gov.in and so1oia2@mea.gov.in,” MEA statement read.

This comes in the backdrop of problems being faced by international students owing to COVID-19 restrictions imposed by several countries.

Scores of students currently enrolled in higher education in foreign countries are studying remotely in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions and border closure issues. Some of them are even stranded in India.

Reportedly, Indian students who have received Covaxin or Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine are being asked to inoculate again across several international institutes as both of them are yet to be approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO). (ANI)

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Modi surprises students, parents at virtual CBSE session

The Prime Minister said that the decision to cancel the CBSE Class XII board exams was taken keeping in mind the student’s interest…reports Asian Lite News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday surprised students and their parents by joining a virtual interactive session for CBSE students organised by the Education Ministry.

The Prime Minister said that the decision to cancel the CBSE Class XII board exams was taken keeping in mind the student’s interest.

The Prime Minister also interacted with some students and parents during the interaction.

Modi advised students to use their time in a creative and productive way following the cancellation of Class XII board exams.

The Prime Minister also advised the students not to take the stress of any exam in their lives. Modi then asked the students about their feelings following the cancellation of exams in view of the Covid pandemic, wanting to know their plans.

The Prime Minister said that with team spirit, which is taught in schools and colleges, the country will emerge victorious in the battle against the pandemic.

Welcoming the government move to cancel the exams, many students told the Prime Minister that it was a ‘good decision’.

The students and some parents also shared their views on the cancellation of exams with the Prime Minister, saying the decision brought relief for them besides ending the uncertainty prevailed over the exams.

The Prime Minister also urged students to do research and write an essay on 75 years of India’s Independence.

He said they should always remember the mantra of ‘health is wealth’ and asked what they do to remain physically fit.

In view of the uncertain conditions brought about by the pandemic and taking into account the feedback obtained from the various stakeholders, the Centre on Tuesday decided to cancel the CBSE Class XII board exams for 2021.

After the government’s decision, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) also scrapped the ISC Class XII exams for this year, saying that a scheme for evaluating the students will be announced soon.

The decision to cancel the CBSE Class XII board exams was taken in a review meeting chaired by the Prime Minister.

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