Virginia Governor Timothy M Kaine has expressed his elation over a clean energy collaboration with India involving Virginia Tech.
A police officer and another person were killed by a gunman on the campus of Virginia Tech on Thursday.
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.
Hundreds of netizens have logged onto Minal Panchal's profile in the social networking site Orkut to express their condolences.
"As of now, we haven't heard of any bad news about the Indian students," the Indian student assocaition president said.
'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'.
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 Washington Post reported that at least 32 people were killed, and that the unidentified shooter was among those dead.
Minal had completed her undergraduate degree from Rizvi College of Architecture Mumbai in 1998.
Minal's family was informed of her death a day later as shse had been rushed to Blacksburg the same day.
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.
The Tamil Nadu government would bear the travel expenses of all the family members.
Friends, neighbours and teachers remember Minal Panchal, who was killed in the V-Tech massacre.
They are waiting for the visa formalities to be completed.
The government will render all assistance to Indian students at Virginia Tech and the family of Professor Loganathan, who was killed in a shooting.
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Let us come together as an international community and condemn this senseless violence while properly honouring the memory of the victims.
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