‘Arrested Pakistani students nowhere near a college’

May 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A 'network of sham colleges' is allowing thousands of Pakistanis, including men from the restive northwest of the country, to enter Britain by enrolling as students, a newspaper revealed. One college alone has 1,200 international students on its rolls despite claiming to have only 150, The Times reported Friday as part of an investigation.

May 21st, 2009 LONDON - After the arrest of 11 Pakistan students for allegedly plotting terror attacks in Britain, it was revealed that those students had entered Britain on false student visas, but it seems that it was only a part of a larger conspiracy, as it has now been revealed that thousands of young Pakistan civilians had exploited a hole in Britain's immigration defences to enroll themselves as students at a network of fraud colleges. The Times has unearthed a major scam in which fraudsters have earned millions of dollars by luring students from Pakistan to get admission in sham colleges in Britain.

May 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - The principal of a Hyderabad college Tuesday testified before the court hearing the Mumbai terror attacks case that the seven identity cards of his institution, recovered from Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab and his nine associates, were forged. Principal C.

May 13th, 2009 LONDON - All the 10 Pakistani students who were arrested last month from different parts of London on suspicion of plotting bomb attack across Britain were actually part of Al-Qaeda's network, a British official has claimed. Robin Tam QC for the Home Secretary told the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in London that all the so-called students, who were arrested, had links with Al-Qaeda.

May 11th, 2009 RANCHI - Ten youths accused of raping a tribal girl were arrested Monday in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, police said. The Class 12 students were arrested from their college hostel near Pathahatu village.

April 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Apparently bowing to terror threats, a prominent women's college here known for its progressive outlook has barred its students from wearing jeans and other figure-hugging outfits but the institution says it is only going by the rules. 'The Kinnaird College administration has banned the students from wearing jeans or other tight dresses in the wake of possible terrorist threats,' Daily Times said Thursday.

April 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Fearing terror threats from the Taliban and other extremist groups, a college here has banned students from wearing jeans and other body hugging dresses. According to the Daily Times, the Kinnaird College (KC) administration has imposed a strict dress code for the students.

April 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - Two more college students have been arrested for the gang rape of an American student here, taking the number of those arrested to five. One suspect was still absconding, the police said Friday.

April 9th, 2009 SHIMLA - At least 30 students of a college in Rajasthan's Jodhpur town were injured when the bus in which they were travelling rolled down a 20-foot deep gorge near the Himachal Pradesh capital Thursday, the police said. 'At least 30 girls of a Jodhpur college were injured when their bus fell into a gorge near Woodrina Hotel at Dhali near here this (Thursday) evening,' Shimla superintendent of police R.M.

March 13th, 2009 TANDA - Four medical students, arrested on murder charges following the death of their junior allegedly due to ragging, have been expelled from their college in Himachal Pradesh. All the four students, who have been booked on murder charge, have been expelled for two years,' new principal of the college Anil Chauhan told IANS.

February 4th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Ten students of an engineering college in Orissa's Puri district were arrested Thursday for assaulting their juniors, police said. The fourth year students of Ghanashyam Hemalata Institute of Technology and Management on the Puri-Konark marine drive, some 70 km from here, allegedly attacked a group of third year students Wednesday for not obeying their orders.

January 23rd, 2009 GHAZIABAD - A teenager was killed after two groups of students fired at each other in a college at Sahibabad Saturday, a police officer said. The incident took place around 12.30 p.m.

January 12th, 2009 RAIPUR - At least 14 students of a Chhattisgarh college were arrested here Tuesday for assaulting their juniors, the police said. The students of Government Science College were suspended Saturday by the college authorities, a day after the police registered a case against them for ragging their juniors at a hostel.

January 9th, 2009 RAIPUR - Fourteen students at a college in the city were Saturday suspended by the authorities, a day after the police registered a case against them for ragging their juniors throughout the night. Government Science College principal Geeta Tiwari called a meeting of the college's anti-ragging committee, which decided to suspend the 14 students, who are on the run since they slapped 14 juniors about 90 times one by one in the institute's Shastri hostel Wednesday night.

January 8th, 2009 RAIPUR - At least 14 students are on the run in Chhattisgarh after they were accused of ragging their juniors at the hostel of a college here, police said Friday. Fourteen B.Sc first year students of Government Science College were slapped about 90 times one by one in the institute's Shastri hostel room late Wednesday night.