Andhra seeks help for students stuck in US's Tri-Valley University

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Radio-tagging 'sham' university students excessive: India to US, NDTV Correspondent, Updated: January 29, 2011


Andhra seeks help for students stuck in US

Hyderabad, Jan 28 (IANS) With many students from Andhra Pradesh facing the possibility of being deported from the United States following the closure of Tri-Valley University, the state government Friday urged the Indian government to take up the issue with the US authorities.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has requested the ministry of external affairs to pursue the matter with the US government for giving all possible assistance to the students affected by the closure of the SanFrancisco-based university.

Reddy also wrote a letter to External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna to render all possible assistance through the diplomatic missions in Washington and San Francisco in issuing visas to the affected students, who approach them.

The closure of the university has reportedly affected 1,600 Indian students and 500 are from Andhra Pradesh.

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Are Indian Students Enrolled At Tri-Valley University (TVU) Really Innocent? Shiksha on 3 Feb 2011

Extract:

Defense of Indian Students

Some of the Hyderabad students, who got their I-20 forms from TVU, allege that both the Hyderabad US Consulate and the Chennai US Consulate failed to detect the fraud and processed their F-1 visa forms, giving them no reason to doubt the university.

Others, who have moved from other universities to TVU, say that TVU allowed them to work for 20 to 40 hours per week from Day 1 as Curricular Practical Training, and they thought it was legal.

The Indian student community also says that since the Tri-Valley University has been recognized and accredited for accepting foreign students, Indian students should not be blamed for seeking admission there.

IAEC Consultancy, which has been named as the Tri-valley's representatives for South Asia region in the varsity's website, denies any links with the university and says that it has not sent even a single student to the institution.

What Tri-Valley University Has To Say
Founder and President of the Tri-Valley University, Ms Susan Su, was born in China. Most of the faculty too belongs to Chinese origin. They remain defiant in the face of all the charges and maintain that TVU has not broken any law. Su blames her two staff members of Indian origin for the blatant misuse of I20 forms.
Su insists that Tri-Valley University's growth pace has been so fast that they might have slipped on some protocol issues.

The staff members that have been fired by TVU for the fraud are: Anji Reddy - a student assistant who worked in TVU administrative office, and another TVU student called Ram Krista Karra, who also has a consultant company. The students, duped by these two individuals, paid their tuition fee in the personal account of Ram Krista Karra to get their student I-20 forms and CPT approvals.

Sri Krishna panel gives six options on Telangana statehood - Siasat

Source: Siasat.com

New Delhi, January 06: The Justice Srikrishna committee is understood to have recommended six options to deal with the Telangana statehood demand on which the government may take a call in about six weeks.

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Dr. Omar Khalidi - Noted scholar from city dies in US

TNN, Nov 30, 2010, 11.40pm IST, The Times of India

HYDERABAD: Noted Indian-American scholar Omar Khalidi was killed in a freak train accident near Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, on Monday, according to reports reaching here.

According to Khalidi's wife Nigar, the writer, who was suffering from diabetics and insomnia, fainted and fell before a train that was approaching at the MIT railway station. The body was shifted to a hospital and the namaz-e-janaja (funeral prayers) is expected to be performed later in the day, Nigar told TOI over phone.

Omar Khalidi, 54, was an expert on India's socio-political affairs. He wrote several books and articles. Born and brought up in Hyderabad, Khalidi finished his MA from the US and PhD from the University of Wales, UK. He worked as an associate professor at the MIT's Aga Khan Porframme for Islamic Architecture.

See the details of his life and contributions:
Dr. Omar Khalidi - A Rare Scholar-Cum-Librarian - Obituary

His other books include 'Khaki and Ethnic Violence in India: Army, Police, and Paramilitary Forces During Communal Riots' and 'Muslims in Indian Economy'. See all the books at Amazon.com

Hyderabad in the Social Networking Sphere

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All in one Google's new Realtime Search Results for Social Networking Sphere Hyderabad:



More search results:

• FACEBOOK Groups / Others
  
• Twitter
  
• Flickr
  
• YouTube
  
• LinkedIn
  
• Last.fm
  
• Delicious
  
• Orkut

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Hyderabad Survey on Urdu newspaper readers Most readers buy their copy

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By A Staff Writer Islamic Voice, June 2010

Hyderabad:
A survey of reading habits of Urdu newspaper readers here reveals that 90 per cent of these readers buy Urdu dailies and read it within the confines of their homes. The survey disproves that most Urdu newspapers are read in the tea houses or restaurants, as was though so far.

The survey was carried out by the students of the Department of Journalism and Mass communication of the Maulana Azad National Urdu University, a central university, recently among 500 respondents. The survey found only 5.6 per cent readers looking at newspapers in restaurants, tea houses or hair cutting saloons.

The findings are significant as Hyderabad is premier centre of Urdu journalism in India and several leading Urdu dailies are published from the city which include Daily Siasat, Rashtriya Sahara, Rahnuma e Deccan, Munsiff, Itimaad, Milap etc. Thirty two per cent of the respondents said they read English newspapers along with Urdu dailies in order to get a comparative outlook of news and events. 12.48 per cent of the respondents complained about paucity of news related to overseas, education, science and technology and research and development in Urdu newspapers. Thirty per cent respondents did not see any significant difference between stuff provided by the English and Urdu newspapers. The survey reveals that only 3.36 per cent of these respondents wanted to read newspapers free of cost. A little over 46 per cent of the respondents wanted the newspapers to be priced at Rs. 2 while 22 per cent respondents liked the price of the Urdu dailies to be pegged at one rupee.

28.32 per cent of the respondents said they liked reading news from the Muslim world and Muslim communities around the world. Nearly 17 per cent said they preferred reading more of political news. Nearly five per cent readers said they read the sport news with preference. Nearly 46 per cent of the respondents said they would like better stuff from the Urdu dailies.

A Considerable section of the Urdu newspaper readers comprises rickshaw pullers, auto rickshaw drivers, beedi makers, push cart vendors and petty merchants. 7.6 per cent of those covered by the survey said the news about minorities is not highlighted properly in the Urdu newspapers.

Asked whether they would like the Urdu newspapers to carry the photographs of the editors in their daily, a little over 57 per cent of the respondents said they disliked the appearance of the photographs of their editors and would instead prefer the space to be devoted to some useful news items. Nearly 37 per cent said they would tolerate such pictures. Nearly 72 per cent of the respondents said they did not like the intense tug of war between editors of various Urdu dailies and 21.44 per cent favoured a truce between the editors. Over five per cent said they would stop subscribing the Urdu newspapers if they carried on the coverage of such items. A good number of Urdu readers voted for Amin Jaferi as the best columnist whose pieces appeared regularly in the Urdu dailies.

They questionnaire carried 19 queries from the Urdu newspaper readers.

State fixes uniform fee structure for post-graduate (PG) courses

June 6th, 2010, Deccan Chronicle

The state government fixed a uniform fee structure for all post-graduate (PG) courses in state-run universities on Saturday. Even though the universities are at liberty to charge more than the prescribed amount, the government will only reimburse the amount that has been fixed. If any university charges less than the prescribed amount, it will reimburse the lesser amount.

The fees for self-financing courses are as follows:

* MA (all languages and social sciences) courses: Rs 7,000 per annum.
* MSW and MHRM: Rs 15,000
* BLiSC, MLiSC, BCJ and MCJ: Rs 9,100
* M.Com and other commerce related PG programmes: Rs 8,620,
* M.Sc (maths, applied maths, statistics, geography): Rs 12,940
* M.Sc (botany, zoology, physics, computer science, electronics, geology, geophysics and others): Rs 21,970
* M.Sc (chemistry, biochemistry): Rs 26,780
* M.Sc (genetics, microbiology, biotech, bioinformatics, nano-science, nano-technology): Rs 37,470.
In addition, the fees for regular programmes such as the MA (all languages and social sciences) is fixed at Rs 2,600 per annum, and the fees for BLiSC, MLiSc, BCJ and MCJ is Rs 3,400. M.Com and other commerce related PG courses will cost Rs 2,900 and for M.Sc (all subjects) the fee is Rs 4,000. This does not include exam and refundable fees.

“The new fees structure will be the basis for reimbursment of fees by the government from the ensuing academic year,” said Prof. K.C. Reddy, chairman, AP State Council of Higher Education.