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As part of its efforts to assist Sri Lanka in de stanley cup veloping human resources, India on Thursday announced a massive expansion of its educational assistance provided to students in this country at a cost of Rs 100 crore by increasing slots in various academic courses. HT Image I am happy to announce a substantial increase in India s educational assistance, amounting to 2.5 billion Sri Lankan Rupees in grant-funding to assist meritorious Sri Lankan students, external affairs minister SM Krishna said after handing over to Sri Lanka the Galle-Hikkaduwa segment of the Southern Railway project build with Indian assistance. Under the new scholarship programme, Krishna said, scholarships and self-financing slots for undergraduate, masters and doctorate-level courses will be increased to nearly 270 per year. The new programmee would be implemented during a period of three years and will cover the course fee, cost of books, boarding and lodging stanley cup and a monthly stipend to the scholars. This marks a three-fold increase, and includes 120 slots for undergraduate courses, 25 seats for IT engineering, 50 slots for Masters-level courses, and 40 slots for a highly-subsidised self-financing scheme, said the minister, who visit stanley cup ed the war-ravaged Northern Province. The new initiative is part of the India-Sri Lanka Knowledge Initiative launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2010 and the schemes would cover various categories of beneficiaries from sch Hpkr China cautions France to be careful on Tibet
A bomb found on a US-bound cargo plane was powerful enough to bring down an aircraft, British authorities said on Saturday, as forces in Yemen searched for suspected al Qaeda militants behind a plot to bomb Jewish targets in Chicago. HT Image I can confirm the device was viable and could have exploded. The target may have been an aircraft and had it detonated the aircraf jordan t could have been brought down, British Home Secretary Theresa May said. Two parcels sent from Yemen and containing explosives were intercepted in Dubai and Britain on Friday, triggering stanley cup broad travel disruptions and a massive international investigation. Officials said the parcel bombs had the hallmarks of al Qaeda, and in particular al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and appeared to include the same explosives used in a failed attempt to blow up a US jetliner on Christmas Day last year. In Washington, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also said authorities were checking whether other packages had been sent before the two that were intercepted. We re doing some reverse engineering as it we af1 re to identify other packages from Yemen, she said on NBC News. US President Barack Obama addressed the nation on Friday, saying US authorities would spare no effort to find the source of the packages which he called a credible terrorist threat aimed at two synagogues. One of the packages was found on a United Parcel Service cargo plane at East Midlands Airport, about 160 miles 260 km
As part of its efforts to assist Sri Lanka in de stanley cup veloping human resources, India on Thursday announced a massive expansion of its educational assistance provided to students in this country at a cost of Rs 100 crore by increasing slots in various academic courses. HT Image I am happy to announce a substantial increase in India s educational assistance, amounting to 2.5 billion Sri Lankan Rupees in grant-funding to assist meritorious Sri Lankan students, external affairs minister SM Krishna said after handing over to Sri Lanka the Galle-Hikkaduwa segment of the Southern Railway project build with Indian assistance. Under the new scholarship programme, Krishna said, scholarships and self-financing slots for undergraduate, masters and doctorate-level courses will be increased to nearly 270 per year. The new programmee would be implemented during a period of three years and will cover the course fee, cost of books, boarding and lodging stanley cup and a monthly stipend to the scholars. This marks a three-fold increase, and includes 120 slots for undergraduate courses, 25 seats for IT engineering, 50 slots for Masters-level courses, and 40 slots for a highly-subsidised self-financing scheme, said the minister, who visit stanley cup ed the war-ravaged Northern Province. The new initiative is part of the India-Sri Lanka Knowledge Initiative launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2010 and the schemes would cover various categories of beneficiaries from sch Hpkr China cautions France to be careful on Tibet
A bomb found on a US-bound cargo plane was powerful enough to bring down an aircraft, British authorities said on Saturday, as forces in Yemen searched for suspected al Qaeda militants behind a plot to bomb Jewish targets in Chicago. HT Image I can confirm the device was viable and could have exploded. The target may have been an aircraft and had it detonated the aircraf jordan t could have been brought down, British Home Secretary Theresa May said. Two parcels sent from Yemen and containing explosives were intercepted in Dubai and Britain on Friday, triggering stanley cup broad travel disruptions and a massive international investigation. Officials said the parcel bombs had the hallmarks of al Qaeda, and in particular al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and appeared to include the same explosives used in a failed attempt to blow up a US jetliner on Christmas Day last year. In Washington, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also said authorities were checking whether other packages had been sent before the two that were intercepted. We re doing some reverse engineering as it we af1 re to identify other packages from Yemen, she said on NBC News. US President Barack Obama addressed the nation on Friday, saying US authorities would spare no effort to find the source of the packages which he called a credible terrorist threat aimed at two synagogues. One of the packages was found on a United Parcel Service cargo plane at East Midlands Airport, about 160 miles 260 km