The student was thrown into the swimming pool and was continually kicked at head and body whenever he tried to escape. This continued for 20 minutes at the completion of which he somehow saved himself and managed to reach his car and drove off.

The SIkh group claims that the accused hurled ausive language at him. “I’m going to **** you up in Iraq, I’m going to **** you up in Afghanistan, I’m going to **** you up over here. The local police neither responded quickly, nor filed the incident as a crime of hate, the group said. “It is clear from the attackers’ references to ‘bin Laden’ and ‘Go back to Afghanistan’ and the fact that they kicked off his turban that this assault targeted not only him as an individual, but his Sikh identity.”

The Department of Justice is looking into the matter presently.

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While one of them appeared to die in a very unusual manner, the other was apparently killed during lathi-charge by Police to stop the mob that had gathered demanding immediate action to find the miscreants.

The Congress student wing had called a bandh on Oct 26, bringing entire western Orissa to a mass violence dayout.

Retired hight court judge S.K. Mohanty will preside over the judicial matters, as per State government’s wishes.

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If you are a student who struggles hard to remember texts or write answers, but quite good in extracurricular activities or perhaps sports such as basketball or football, then there is, apparently, no need to worry much about passing the frightening annual exams. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is planning to give pass grades to the weaker students of a class on the basis of other skills.

Several changes are to be made. For example, students getting low marks in written examinations, will be awarded grades on the basis of oral tests. The basic idea underlying is to examine a student to access his understanding of the important concepts in the syllabus.  In fact, after cancelling Class X Board exams from next year hence, CBSE has also requested schools to show the progress charts and answer sheets to students of Classes IX and XI individually and engage themselves actively with CBSE’s plannings.

Thus Classes IX and X will be divided as First and Second Terms. Students will be given only one report card containing both records of  Classes IX and X and will be shown answer sheets. They will be graded on extracurricular activities, sports, physical fitness, attitudes and life skills. Students will have to list goals, strengths, hobbies and interests, sports played and exceptional achievements as part of their report card.

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The ongoing racial abuses and slightings in Australia towards Asian students, particularly Indian, are casting forth dark shadows over the prospects of expansion of educational partnership and enterpreneurship between India and Australia. In accordance with IDP Education chief officer Tony Pollock’s analysis, racist practices may earn Australia a 50% dip in the number of  Indian students interested in pursuing higher courses in the country.

From among the 35000 students intake by the IDP, around 1100 are Indians and more than 6000 foreign sutdents have voted the Australian cities, Sydney and Melbourne as as potentially unsafe for foreign students.

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Both the Indian and Australian governments’ failure is perhaps the reason behind the incident that has once again stirred violence in Australia between the local Melbourne community and the Indian counterpart residing in the same area. Reportedly, one local skateboarder  along with his comrade (aged 25 and 42) who abused a small group of Indians  at a car-park outside Meadowglen International Athletics Stadium in Epping and also damaged an Indian’s car’s rear window when the NRI was coming out with his group after a Kabaddi match, was  beaten badly by the Indians.They have been taken to North Hospital for treatment where their condition has stabilised.

“Associates of the people, whose car was damaged, came to their assistance. Two men were assaulted and hit with sticks in the brawl. These two injured men were from the group outside who had allegedly started to verbally abuse the people from the vehicle,” the local police said in a statement.

No arrests have been made so far.

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Only days after the previous assault, a 28 year old Indian student was attacked in the north-west of Melbourne where reportedly the student after getting off a bus at Keilor Plains train station at 12.15 am Tuesday was approached by two men who asked for cigarettes.

After obliging them both, when he turned,he  was hit over the head at least six times with what he believes was a plank of wood or a baseball bat, The Age newspaper reported, and  laid there unconscious until he was spotted.

Cop Kevin Squires  described the attack as irresponsible although he declined to comment on the racist facet of the incident. “They seemed to be hanging around the station just looking for someone,” he said. “They just kept whacking him at the back of the head.” This comes a week after John Bramby condemned the recent assaults by Aussie hotheads.

Only a week earlier, an Indian cab driver was assaulted by Essendon footballer Michael Hurley, 19, after he got miffed by fare issue on Hoddle Street.

While Indians are continually becoming targeted, India retains a soft corner for the Australian counterpart. Australia is a favourite destination for Indian film-makers. Two of last year’s biggest hits, “Bachna Ae Haseeno” and “Singh is Kinng”, were shot

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has condemned the recent spate of attacks on

Obviously, such perpetration must be stopped immediately if peace need be restored on the global front. Most affected are the Indian students on whose minds fear is fast gaining pace.

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Yes, perhaps John Bramby, the Victorian Premier who visited India recently, is doing a good job while calling these hideous incidents as “an assault”. But hey, where are the results? I heard the Australian PM claiming “stringent” punishment against such wrong-doers. But the question remains hidden at grass-root level.

Let us transcend from the Indian territory to the macrocosm.

Can racism ever end?

Can it be subjugated?

Can education prevent it?

Or perhaps, we need some spiritual awakening…

But why are Indians pointing at another country? Don’t we know how dark girls are treated here? Well? The largest selling cream in the sub-continent is- No points for guessing, Fair and Lovely!

Moving Around,

At another part of the country (lets go north), India’s biggest and most prestigious medical institution, AIIMS suffered a show-down with twelve of the senior doctors resigning from their services without adequate reasons! Now, I heard CNBC saying that at AIIMS specifically, the government spends around one crore rupees on every individual to make him a responsible and knowledgeable doctor. Well? The question is, have you given a thought to the demand of establishment of six more AIIMS across the nation asap? Ahem.. a purely terrifying thought!

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