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  Indian Student's Body Found In Oz, Dam Was Emptied In Hunt For Him

  The body of a 21-year-old Indian student in Australia, who went missing recently, was found today in Victoria's Marysville region, according to the police, which also emptied a local dam in search of him.

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  Metro Ride For PM Modi, Australian Premier (With Selfie); Then, A Temple

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, skilled practitioner of selfies, had a gotcha moment today riding the Delhi metro with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The leaders then visited the famous Akshardhma temple on the banks of the River Yamuna, where they posed with garlands.

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  Oz School Shuts Down Instagram Account Featuring 'Slut Of The Year' Vote

  An elite school in Australia's Melbourne city has shut down a student-run Instagram account set up to "slut shame" young girls.

• For fugitive Indian driver, Oz offers huge cash reward

  Australian police have announced a cash reward of over USD 100,000 for an Indian man who killed a student in Melbourne almost four years ago before fleeing the country.

• Indian student jailed in Australia in visa scam

  A Perth-based Indian student will spend 14 months in jail for his involvement in a scam to falsify English test scores to get Australian visas.

• Indian student wrongly detained, to get 600,000 Oz dollars

  An Indian student, who was detained in 2004, by Australian immigration authorities for violating visa rules, is likely to get a whopping compensation of 600,000 Australian dollars after the country's human rights body termed his detention as 'arbitrary'.

• Indian in Oz jailed over road rage attack on compatriots

  An Indian student was today handed down a jail term of two-and-a-half years by an Australian court, which found him guilty of recklessly causing serious injuries to a group of compatriots during a road rage attack.25-year-old Gurdeep Singh Mann, who lives in Victoria, will have to serve at least 18 months of his two-and-a-half-year sentence before ...

• Australia plans to train and hire 30,000 Indians

  Up to 30,000 Australia-trained Indian graduates could be recruited to help deal with a skills shortage that threatens to severely impact this country's booming resources sector.Officials of the two sides have initiated discussions with tertiary institutions and training bodies in both nations about opening up this country's training system, accordi...

• 'Suitcase murder' not racially motivated, says Australian govt

  The Australian Government issued a statement through its High Commission in New Delhi condemning the murder of Tosha Thakkar. Here's the full text of that statement.The Australian High Commission extends its sincere condolences to the family and friends of Tosha Thakkar who was murdered in Sydney last week. Australia's High Commissioner to India, H...

• Indian student's body found in suitcase in Australia

  The body of a 24-year-old Indian-origin student, who was murdered after being sexually assaulted, was found stuffed in a suitcase in a park in Sydney, a media report said Monday.Police said the "predator" had waited until her housemate was away to sexually assault and kill her.Tosha Thakkar's body was found Friday morning in a canal behind the Mead...

• Indian students in Oz slam inaccurate Crook

  Crook revolving around racist attacks on Indians in Melbourne, has been slammed by Indian students for the "unfair and incorrect" portrayal.

• Racist emails about Indians: 4 Oz cops sacked

  Four Australian police officers were sacked and disciplinary action initiated against 15 others in connection with the circulation of racist emails wherein they joked about the electrocution of an Indian. (Read & watch: India asks Oz govt to act over racist email)While four have been sacked, one has been demoted, another five have been fined up...

• Teacher tasks students to plan a terror attack in Australia

  A high school teacher in Australia created ripples when she assigned her class to plan a terrorist attack using chemical or biological warfare.The Year 10 students at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School in Western Australia were set a task by their environment teacher last week to pretend they were terrorists planning to make a political state...

• Indian student leader to contest Oz polls

  Gautam Gupta, who is a student leader in Melbourne and a household name among the Indian community in Australia, is getting into the big league. He is all set to fight the Australian elections that are less than a month away.Gautam, who is the founder of Federation of Indian Students of Australia (FISA), became the voice against attacks on Indian s...

• Indian student injured in Oz race attack unable to eat, speak

  An Indian student, who was hospitalised with multiple jaw fractures after being brutally beaten up by a group of six youths here, will not be able to eat for up to five weeks and also cannot talk properly, according to one of his friends.24-year-old Bharat Thapar, who was assaulted on Monday night in South Oakleigh, is recuperating in a hospital wi...