Virginia Governor Timothy M Kaine has expressed his elation over a clean energy collaboration with India involving Virginia Tech.
The agreement includes "financial compensation, health benefits and non-monetary assistance for surviving family members and victims of the April 16, 2007, massacre at Virginia Tech," according to a statement released by lawyers representing some of the families. The finer details have not been released because the agreement has not been finalised.
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"As of now, we haven't heard of any bad news about the Indian students," the Indian student assocaition president said.
The special qualities of Professor G V Loganathan and Minal Hiralal Panchal and 30 other faculty and students of the Virginia Tech university community, who were killed a year ago on April 16, were read aloud in a remembrance ceremony attended by thousands on the Virginia Tech Drillfield in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Kaine said: "as we begin the healing process, I feel that my place is here with our citizens, and I deeply regret that I am unable to travel to India for this trade mission."
Loganathan, a native of Karatadipalayam in Gobichettipalayam in Tamil Nadu's Erode district, had expressed a wish that his body should be buried in Virginia if something happened to him there, his brother Palanivel said.
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Hundreds of netizens have logged onto Minal Panchal's profile in the social networking site Orkut to express their condolences.
Minal's family was informed of her death a day later as shse had been rushed to Blacksburg the same day.
'We'll be going across the country asking that question, asking mental health professionals, governors, law enforcement and higher education officials about their their feeling and suggestions'.
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Indian-American Aneesh Chopra, the former technology czar of United States President Barack Obama, has announced that he will seek the Democratic nomination for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, six months after he quit the White House to pursue his political goals.
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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's S P Jain Institute of Management & Research and Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA, invite applications for its 18-month, full-time Masters in Information Technology programme.
Let us come together as an international community and condemn this senseless violence while properly honouring the memory of the victims.
The Washington Post reported that at least 32 people were killed, and that the unidentified shooter was among those dead.
Over 100 people have died and about two dozen injured in the campus shootings across the United States over the last 20 years with the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 being the deadliest claiming 33 lives including that of two Indians, a study says.
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Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen read out the condolence message during Minal's funeral ceremony. Anil Gupta, minister, community affairs at the Indian embassy in Washington, DC, represented the government of India at Loganathan's funeral.
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Minal had completed her undergraduate degree from Rizvi College of Architecture Mumbai in 1998.
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Similar false bomb threats were reported form University of California's Hastings Law college in San Francisco and from University of Minnesota where eight buildings were evacuated.
The Tamil Nadu government would bear the travel expenses of all the family members.
In a statement, US Ambassador to India David Mulford noted that scholars and students from India are valued members of its higher education communities.
The online world rallies to pay tribute to Mumbai girl Minal Panchal who was killed at the Virginia Tech shootout
Friends, neighbours and teachers remember Minal Panchal, who was killed in the V-Tech massacre.
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