Another Indian student attacked in Oz

October 9th, 2009 AUCKLAND - The police in this New Zealand city are searching for Indian student Srikanth Rayadurgam who has been missing ever since he withdrew cash from an ATM here nine days back. Rayadurgam, a student of Auckland University of Technology (AUT), hails from the Indian city of Hyderabad.

October 2nd, 2009 Spanish boat attacked by pirates in Indian OceanMADRID — Pirates attacked a Spanish tuna trawler Friday in the Indian Ocean and contact with the vessel has been lost, the ship's owner said. Echebastar Fleet, based in Spain's Basque region, said the ship Alakrana was carrying a crew of 36.

October 2nd, 2009 MELBOURNE/NEW DELHI - A 28-year-old Indian student was attacked in the north-west of Melbourne, adding one more to the series of recent attacks on Indians in Australia over the past few months, a report said Friday. The student after getting off a bus at Keilor Plains train station at 12.15 a.m.

August 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE/INDORE - Two more Indian students were separately assaulted by a group of men in Australia. Gaurav Kakkar, a student of a hairdressing course, was attacked by a group of men on Friday when he was talking to his family in Punjab's Ferozpur from a local telephone booth.

August 2nd, 2009 SYDNEY - The racist attacks on Indians can have a huge impact on the Australian economy, with New South Wales facing a potential loss of about 300 million dollars in revenue from a possible exodus of Indian students. Acting Opposition education spokesman Andrew Stoner said an estimated 20,000 Indian students were studying in NSW at any one time, contributing close to 600 million dollars to the state economy in a year.

July 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - One of Australia's most prominent Indian-born businessmen has astonishingly said that the bashed students from his homeland provoked the assaults on themselves by being drunk and "making merry". Vikas Rambal, a Perth-based fertiliser tycoon and major cricket sponsor, also said that Australians only ever attacked anyone they found "too offensive".

June 23rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Racial attack on Indian students in Australia continued, with latest victim being M A Khan, studying at the Victoria Institute of Technology (VIT). This was the 15th attack on Indian students in Australia in less than one month.

June 15th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Another Indian student has been bashed and racially abused, this time in Melbourne's east. According to a report in The Age, Sunny Bajaj, 20, said he was taunted and punched by two men as he was about to get into his car in Boronia on Friday night.

June 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - An Indian student was attacked and racially abused in east Melbourne, a media report said Monday. 20-year-old Sunny Bajaj, who is from New Delhi, suffered a fractured finger, bruised back and a bloodied nose in the attack Friday night.

June 8th, 2009 SYDNEY - A 23-year-old Indian student was found unconscious and bleeding after being attacked here in Australia, making him the eleventh target in the past month in a wave of alleged racial attacks, a media report said Monday. The Age newspaper reported Kamal Jit was attacked while walking home from St.

June 2nd, 2009 SYDNEY - Another Indian student has been attacked by a group of males in Frankston in Melbourne after they stopped him and demanded money and cigarettes despite Australian Government's promise to take strict action against those who attack Indians. Nardeep Singh, a nursing student at Chisholm College was slashed with a stanley knife carried by one of the group, a spokeswoman for Victoria Police said.

June 2nd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Yet another student from India was attacked by a group of men after they stopped him and demanded cigarettes and money, the police said Tuesday. This incident took the number of such assaults on Indian students in Australia to six in over three weeks.

May 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has termed the attacks on Indian students a "problem" and assured that the government would do everything to prevent further assaults. "We have a particular current problem with Indian students," Smith told Network Ten.

May 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Police has arrested two people this morning for assaulting an Indian student on a Melbourne train after he refused to give them cigarettes. The two youths who were picked from Hoppers Crossing were aged 16 and 18, and are being interrogated.

May 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - An Indian student, who was robbed and stabbed in this Australian city, had pleaded with his attackers who just laughed at him, a media report said. Baljinder Singh had left a railway station Monday when two men carrying weapons approached him and demanded money.