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UK tightens rules for student visas
LONDON: Days after Britain suspended issuing student visas in north India,Home secretary Alan Johnson announced measures intended to cut the number of student visas. Johnson said Britain will continue to welcome genuine students,but will come down on those who use student visas to come to Britain to work. Under the new measures,applicants from India and other countries outside the EU will have to meet a higher bar on English language requirement,and students taking courses below degree level will be allowed to work for only 10 hours a week,instead of 20.
KATHMANDU: Madeshi leader Parmananda Jha on Sunday re-took the oath of office and secrecy as the Vice-President in Maithili and Nepali,ending the language row after Nepals SC last year ruled his pledge in Hindi to be unconstitutional. Jha was administered the oath by President Ram Baran Yadav following last weeks approval of a parliamentary amendment that made it legal for President,Vice-President and Prime Minister to take the pledge in their mother tongue,including Hindi.
Mediapersons to be quizzed on Fonseka
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities are likely to question several mediapersons,who were present at a Colombo hotel during defeated opposition presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonsekas stay there,over the alleged plot by him to stage a coup and assassinate incumbent Mahinada Rajapaksa. The purpose is to get information as to what (former army chief) Sarath Fonsekas officials planned by detaining them within the hotel rooms, the governments website quoted defence sources as saying.
Two planes collide midair,three killed
NEW YORK: At least three people died when a plane,towing a glider,collided midair with another small aircraft in Colorado,on Saturday afternoon,US aviation authorities said. One of the aircraft clipped the towline of the other plane that was pulling a glider, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokeswoman said. Three people,including the pilot,escaped unhurt in the accident.
Run-off polls begin in Ukraine
KIEV: Polls opened in the second round of Ukraines presidential elections Sunday. The polls pit Russian-leaning opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko,who came to international prominence in the 2004 pro-Western Orange protests.
