Two Indian-origin brothers wanted in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old MTech student from India have been arrested by Australian police, media reports said.
The condition of the 20-year-old Indian student, who was brutally attacked on December 29, remains critical but he was responding to medicine well, according to his brother.
Consequent to apprehensions over slump in migration after the alleged racial attacks, Australia's Minister of Immigration and Citizenship Chris Evans assured quality education to Indian students in an amicable social environ.
A third Australian teenager was on Friday charged with brutally attacking and robbing a 20-year-old Indian student here who suffered serious head injuries in the incident.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Friday met Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and discussed various bilateral issues, including the recent attacks on Indian students in Australia.Rudd assured Krishna that all requisite steps would be taken to ensure the safety of Indian students in Australia. "Australia is not a racist country. We welcome Indian students," the Australian PM told Krishna.He added that he was looking into the problems faced by Indian students.
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed concern over the unabated attacks on Indian students in Australia. It also directed the government to file a comprehensive affidavit within two weeks about the steps taken by it to ensure their safety. "The safety and security of Indian students in Australia is paramount," a bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and A K Ganguli said.
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Responding to the President's speech, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that promoting communalism would stall inclusive growth in the country.
The then Australian deputy prime minister Julia Gillard's visit to India in 2009 during a spate of racial attacks on Indian students in Australia was a 'wasted opportunity' as it failed to quell the rising tide of anger in the country over the assaults, whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has revealed.Diplomatic cables unveiled by WikiLeaks disclose that Gillard's India visit secured only 'vague commitments' on the burning issue in the country.
"I think any human being should not be attacked. I don't think any human being's dignity should be attacked in this manner."
The Australian government announced a new Skilled Occupation List (SOL) proposed to come into effect from July 1, 2010.
Jeffrey R Smart, pro vice-chancellor (International and Recruitment), Swinburne University, Melbourne, talks about education Down Under.
MyOzNetwork.com is designed to provide past, present and future Indian students in Australia with their own networking portal online, the Australian High Commission said in New Delhi in a media release.
Conceding that there were "some" racist attacks on Indian students in Australia, the Victorian police chief on Thursday cautioned against "hysterical" response to such assaults as it could lead to more violence.
In yet another attack on an Indian student in Australia, a 31-year old cookery student was stabbed in the stomach by two men after he finished work in a South Yarra bar in Melbourne earlier in November.The student, who did not want to be named, underwent an emergency surgery and needed 26 stitches on his punctured bowel after the attack on November 5, according to a media report. The Victoria police are now appealing for witnesses to the attack to come forward.
Terming the racial attacks on Indian students in Australia as 'generic', former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist has said that the country was safe for students.
Anxious parents of the more than 120,000 Indian students in Australia are asking for clear answers to certain questions. A clear message needs to be sent back to them, writes Sujatha Singh, India's high commissioner to Australia.
India termed as "ridiculous" the suggestion by Victorian police chief Simon Overland that Indian students in Australia should keep a low profile and "try to look as poor as you can" to avoid attacks.
'The situation is such that they feel unsafe and confused whether they should go out and work or just sit at home fearing safety. Incidentally, the number of aspiring Indian students to Australia has dropped dramatically.'
'We are careful not to walk the streets after dark. We are not safe because there are people here, who think Indians should not be in Australia,' The Daily Telegraph quoted Bharat Chauhan, an accounting student in Australia, as saying.
Promising safety and security of Indian students, Australia is considering amending the law to enlarge definition of offence to include race, religion, ethnicity and nationality related violence, the Rajya Sabha was told on Friday.
The fresh scam exposed by The Australian newspaper said several overseas students, including Indians, were found to have graduated from University of New England with copied masters thesis which gave them better chance of getting permanent residency.
About 54 overseas students, nearly half of them Indians, died of various causes in Australia last year, but coroners were trying to suppress the details of the deaths, a leading daily in Melbourne reported today.
Denying any adverse affect on business relations, Primus CEO Ravi Bhatia said, "Such crimes have been wrongly dubbed by the Indian media as 'an organised and planned racial violence.'" He described such incidents as serious law and order issues. Fortunately, it is now being recognised in India that there was an over-reaction there and Australia remains one of the best potential business partner for India, he said.
Blaming anti-social elements for the attacks on Indian students in Australia, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi today said Canberra was taking strict action to prevent such incidents after the Centre's intervention.
The protectionist measures in the West and attacks on Indian students in Australia is likely to negatively affect the Indians' overseas job dreams and the aspirants may prefer domestic offers, experts believe.
Canadian student visa expert Jagdeep Singh of International Educational & Career (IEC) Consultants speaks to RMS Atwal about how Canada is creating new incentives to woo Indian students.
Concerned over reports of some Indian students in Australia retaliating in the wake of spate of attacks on them, India today asked them to exercise restraint.
Shaken by a wave of racial assaults, thousands of Indian students chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai rallied on Sunday in Melbourne demanding justice for victims of recent attacks as Australia scrambled to contain the rising anger and frustration within the community.
An Australian university research paper providing new evidence that Indian students in Australia feel racially targeted has been delayed for over two months by the Victoria police as it took time to vet its findings.
Concerned over a series of attacks on its nationals, India has sought "credible answers" from Australia so that it could send a clear message to worried parents of more than 1.2 lakh Indian students in Australia.
The help line is featured on the Federation of Indian Associations of Victoria (FIAV) website, and was launched by Victoria Police in May 2009, as an initiative of the Indian Western Reference Group. The contact number for the FIAV was also not operational on Tuesday.
Merrylands Police said the Indian youth was walking along Amos Street at 7.30 pm on Wednesday when three men came from behind him and repeatedly hit him in the face.
The student, who was also a cabbie, was attacked and left to bleed on a Brunswick West street, police said. The victim parked his taxi outside his girlfriend's home on Collier Crescent in the wee hours today and rang her to bring his dinner outside when someone approached his vehicle, The Age reported.
An Australian delegation on Tuesday said the attacks on Indian students were not racial but were done with a primary motive of stealing.
With possibility of a drop in the number of Indian students to Australia in the wake of racial attacks, a delegation of top officials and academicians from Australia is coming to New Delhi next month to promote that country as a safe destination.
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This was the 15th attack on Indian students in Australia in less than a month.
Modi, who had a 30-minute meeting with the prime minister at the latter's official residence, discussed several issues related to the state, officials said
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday with a demand to declare the Sardar Sarovar project a national project. Modi also held deliberations with Singh on the attacks on Indian students in Australia.
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