Indian Students Detained

Protests swept campuses across the country against the police crackdown at Jamia Millia Islamia after Sunday evening's violence over the new citizenship law. Students at the Aligarh Muslim University clashed with the police after their solidarity march was stopped. By midnight, Hyderabad's Maulana Azad Urdu University and the Banaras Hindu Universi...

Nearly 100 students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University, who had been detained by the Delhi Police after a protest march against the citizenship law ended in violence on Sunday evening, have been released.

US Federal law enforcement agencies have arrested 90 foreign students, mostly from India, enrolled in a fake university established by the United States government to check immigration fraud, a media report has said.

At least 30 students from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have returned from the US. They were those who were not detained or served notices by the US authorities in the "pay-to-stay" scam, according to Telugu organisations.

India has obtained consular access to 117 of the 129 of students detained in the US for enrolling in a fake university. The government said legal assistance is being extended to them.

All 130 foreign students, including 129 Indians who were detained for enrolling in a fake university, were aware that they were committing a crime to fraudulently remain in the US, the State Department has said, days after India issued a demarche to the American Embassy in New Delhi.

Indian Ambassador to the US, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, on Sunday confirmed that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) will have access to all the students who were detained in the United States for enrolling themselves in a fake university, by Monday.

India has issued a demarche to the American Embassy in New Delhi, expressing its concern over the detention of Indian students in the US, and sought immediate consular access to them.

Sushma Swaraj and her team at the Ministry of External Affairs are giving "top priority" to Indian students who have been arrested in the United States for enrolling themselves in a fake university, in what authorities have called a "pay-to-stay" in America scheme. Of the 130 foreign students arrested, 129 are from India.

As many as 129 Indians are among the 130 foreign students arrested for enrolling at a fake university allegedly to remain in the US.The Indian embassy in the US has opened a 24/7 hotline to assist 129 Indian students arrested by the American authorities in the "pay-and-stay" university visa scam, officials have said.

Bangladesh police have charged eight terrorists over a 2016 attack on a cafe in Dhaka that killed 22 people, and freed a British suspect detained without charge for the past two years.

Three IIT students on a trip to Italy were wrongfully detained on Thursday by the police in Ventimiglia town in country's northern part near the French-Italian border. The students were released hours later after the Indian mission in Rome intervened.

Fourteen Indian students who travelled to the US last week chasing college dreams have been deported allegedly after being detained and questioned for 14-15 hours allegedly by the FBI in San Francisco. Another set of students who arrived today in Delhi said they were kept in a cell for three days before being deported.

An Indian student has won 3,500 pounds in damages after she was illegally detained at London's Heathrow airport for 17 hours three years back.

A first-year MBA student at the Indian Institute of Management I(IIM), Lucknow, Rahul Verma, has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his alleged involvement in a murder at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, campus. Mr Verma, an IIT- Kanpur graduate, has been remanded to three days in CBI custody.

Protests swept campuses across the country against the police crackdown at Jamia Millia Islamia after Sunday evening's violence over the new citizenship law. Students at the Aligarh Muslim University clashed with the police after their solidarity march was stopped. By midnight, Hyderabad's Maulana Azad Urdu University and the Banaras Hindu Universi...

Nearly 100 students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University, who had been detained by the Delhi Police after a protest march against the citizenship law ended in violence on Sunday evening, have been released.

US Federal law enforcement agencies have arrested 90 foreign students, mostly from India, enrolled in a fake university established by the United States government to check immigration fraud, a media report has said.

At least 30 students from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have returned from the US. They were those who were not detained or served notices by the US authorities in the "pay-to-stay" scam, according to Telugu organisations.

India has obtained consular access to 117 of the 129 of students detained in the US for enrolling in a fake university. The government said legal assistance is being extended to them.

All 130 foreign students, including 129 Indians who were detained for enrolling in a fake university, were aware that they were committing a crime to fraudulently remain in the US, the State Department has said, days after India issued a demarche to the American Embassy in New Delhi.

Indian Ambassador to the US, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, on Sunday confirmed that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) will have access to all the students who were detained in the United States for enrolling themselves in a fake university, by Monday.

India has issued a demarche to the American Embassy in New Delhi, expressing its concern over the detention of Indian students in the US, and sought immediate consular access to them.

Sushma Swaraj and her team at the Ministry of External Affairs are giving "top priority" to Indian students who have been arrested in the United States for enrolling themselves in a fake university, in what authorities have called a "pay-to-stay" in America scheme. Of the 130 foreign students arrested, 129 are from India.

As many as 129 Indians are among the 130 foreign students arrested for enrolling at a fake university allegedly to remain in the US.The Indian embassy in the US has opened a 24/7 hotline to assist 129 Indian students arrested by the American authorities in the "pay-and-stay" university visa scam, officials have said.

Bangladesh police have charged eight terrorists over a 2016 attack on a cafe in Dhaka that killed 22 people, and freed a British suspect detained without charge for the past two years.

Three IIT students on a trip to Italy were wrongfully detained on Thursday by the police in Ventimiglia town in country's northern part near the French-Italian border. The students were released hours later after the Indian mission in Rome intervened.

Fourteen Indian students who travelled to the US last week chasing college dreams have been deported allegedly after being detained and questioned for 14-15 hours allegedly by the FBI in San Francisco. Another set of students who arrived today in Delhi said they were kept in a cell for three days before being deported.

An Indian student has won 3,500 pounds in damages after she was illegally detained at London's Heathrow airport for 17 hours three years back.

A first-year MBA student at the Indian Institute of Management I(IIM), Lucknow, Rahul Verma, has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his alleged involvement in a murder at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, campus. Mr Verma, an IIT- Kanpur graduate, has been remanded to three days in CBI custody.