Kumar Tuhin, director general (ICCR), Ministry of External Affairs, said no student would be forced to leave India against their wishes, adding scholarships issue will be resolved.
It is incumbent on the international community to support education programs in Afghanistan & encourage the govt to fund education for women, writes Meladul Haq Ahmadzai.
With Taliban in power back home, visa rules that prohibit working, and scholarships drying up, Afghan students in a limbo. Indian friends are helping, but they can only do so much.
Indian universities are threatening Afghan students they will cancel their seats if they don't return to classes. But India isn't renewing their visas.
A Taliban source said 33 had been killed, including many female students. Many of those living in the area where the blast occurred are Hazara, an ethnic mostly Shiite Muslim minority.
Mirwais Balkhi, former education minister & diplomat, says Taliban 'gradually ruining country’s education ecosystem', is facing resistance from women and ethnic, religious groups.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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