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‘Never expected Columbia to let me down’: Indian PhD student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing US post being labeled ‘terrorist sympathizer’ – The Times of India

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Still from a security video shared on X by US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem shows Ranjani Srinivasan leaving New York City for Canada on March 11, 2025. [Screengrab/X] Ranjani Srinivasan, a 37-year-old Indian PhD candidate at Columbia University, never imagined her academic journey would end with a frantic escape to Canada. Pursued by…

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Columbia student, in US since childhood, sues Trump administration to stop deportation order – The Times of India

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Columbia student Yunseo Chung (Image Credit: X) A 21-year old Columbia University student Yunseo Chung has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attempted to deport her despite her lawful permanent resident status.After Mahmoud Khalil, this is another student who said that the Trump administration has targeted her for…

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Columbia folds, academia buckles: How Trump is reshaping US higher education – The Times of India

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File photo: The campus of Columbia University, in New York. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) Columbia University’s concessions to US President Donald Trump’s administration—aimed at regaining $400 million in frozen federal funding—have stunned the higher education world and kicked off a behind-the-scenes scramble among university leaders nationwide.Catch up quick President Trump vowed during his 2024…

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‘Despite doing nothing wrong…’: Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan’s lawyer says she did not ‘self-deport’ via CBP app – The Times of India

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Ranjani Srinivasan’s lawyer counters Kristi Noem’s claim that she self-deported via CBP app. Close on the heels of the arrest of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian-origin PhD student of the same university, leaving the US made the headlines as secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem posted the video of Srinivasan in…

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Silicon Valley’s Indian-origin CEO of AI startup has message for Indian and international students on Ranjani Srinivasan’s deportation: Remember that … – The Times of India

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Rishi Kumar, the Indian-origin CEO of AI startup EthosAI has come in support of deportation of the Columbia University’s Indian student Ranjani Srinivasan. A fifth year PhD student, Ranjani fled to Canada recently after she got int of her imminent arrest as the tempers were running high following the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil whom the…

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Indian PhD candidate self-deports after US revokes her student visa for being ‘terrorist sympathiser’ – The Times of India

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TOI correspondent from Washington: An Indian doctoral candidate at Columbia University — alma mater of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, architect of India’s constitution among other desi luminaries — has self-deported from the US after the Trump administration, calling her a “terrorist sympathiser,” revoked her student visa last week.The Department of Homeland Security released video footage at…

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Indian scholar at Columbia University Ranjani Srinivasan self-deports after visa revocation, accused of supporting Hamas – The Times of India

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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that an Indian doctoral student from Columbia University, whose visa was revoked for allegedly supporting Hamas, has voluntarily left the United States. The student, Ranjani Srinivasan, used the CBP Home App to self-deport on March 11, 2025, after the Department of State cancelled her visa on…

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‘We’ll see some people get deported’: What US Vice President JD Vance said about green card holders – The Times of India

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US Vice President JD Vance gave his insights on various policies and concerns as the Trump administration establishes its stronghold after coming back to the White House in January.During the Fox News‘ “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday, he addresses multiple topics including deportation of green card holders, immigration, border security and trade policies. Deportation of…

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Trump’s USA shows a red flag to green card holders’ political activism – The Times of India

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TOI Correspondent from Washington: The Trump administration has a clear message to foreign students and green card holders who espouse views inimical to the security of the United States: expect to be deported to your home country. In a significantly broader interpretation of existing US laws with regards to deportation of legal residents, Senior Trump…

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Watch: Anti-Israel protesters take control over Barnard academic building, assault college employee – The Times of India

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Anti-Israel protesters took over a building at New York City’s Barnard College (Screengrab from videos) A group of anti-Israel protesters wearing keffiyeh took over a building at New York City’s Barnard College and allegedly assaulted an employee Wednesday evening while demonstrating against the dismissal of two students who had previously disrupted a Columbia University lecture…

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