DEOBAND - Drawing flak for his alleged praise of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Deoband Islamic seminary's vice chancellor Maulana Mohammad Ghulam Vastanvi Wednesday said he has quit but not under any pressure. He also alleged that it was a "conspiracy" against him.

TORONTO - India has unveiled year-long activities and programmes for its Year of India in Canada with the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Carleton University to fund an India Chair at the university's Canada-India Centre for Excellence in Science, Technology, Trade and Policy.

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of Indian students, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, face the prospect of being deported from the US after a "sham" university in California was shut down for allegedly selling US visas to willing students.