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Top Places for Indians to study abroad

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Top Places for Indians to study abroad


In the US, Trump’s policy of ‘America for Americans first’ is making the environment less welcoming for international students.

After a student and her family have spent a fortune on overseas education, most expect the former to get a high-paying job in that country and gain permanent residency, if not citizenship.
But with most popular destinations, barring Canada, imposing tougher work visa norms, Indian students are now exploring newer destinations.
Two categories of Indian students go abroad for studies. The first hopes to use a foreign degree as a means to emigrate. In the second category, there are students from affluent families who want quality education and international exposure, but plan to come back once their course ends.
For the first category, the UK is no longer attractive as job opportunities have become scarce after Brexit.
Tighter visa norms mean students cannot stay back to hunt for a job once the course gets over.
In the US, Trump’s policy of ‘America for Americans first’ is making the environment less welcoming for international students.
For students who plan to study abroad and then return to India, the UK is still fine as a destination. But most students are now becoming wary of going to the US owing to Trump’s aggressive rhetoric.
Indian students are hence exploring newer destinations now.  Let us now look at a few emerging destinations for Indian students.
Hong Kong
It has globally renowned universities like the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
It is one of the few countries where international and local students are charged the same fee. Hong Kong is also quite liberal in offering scholarships based on marks.
Studying there can be cheaper than studying in some of the private colleges in India.
Engineering is a much sought after course. Universities also let students do a semester in another country, thereby enhancing global exposure.
France and Spain
France is emerging as a magnet for students who wish to pursue business studies, humanities, and fashion design.
French is one of the most commonly taught international languages in Indian schools; so many students are familiar with it.
Campus France, a French government initiative, has done a good job of spreading awareness in India about French educational institutions. Bachelor courses at public universities in France have low tuition fees.
Two of the world’s top management schools -- HEC Paris and INSEAD Business School -- are located there. Other globally reputed institutions include The Paris University of Political Studies (popularly known as Sciences Po), ESSEC International Business School and The American Business School.
However, scholarships are not common, and job opportunities scarce. It is suited for students who wish to return to India when their course ends.
Most students go to Spain for degrees in business management, economics, and other liberal arts courses.
Colleges also allow students to complete a couple of semesters in another country.
Both France and Spain now have universities that offer four-year undergraduate degrees, which allow students to apply for Masters Degrees in US and Canada.
Singapore and China
Both are cost-effective destinations, and they also offer scholarships.
Singapore is popular among students who wish to pursue a Management or MS degree, while China is attracting students who wish to study medicine.
China is setting up joint venture universities in its effort to reach its target of attracting 5,00,000 international students annually by 2020.
Lithuania
The Kaunas University of Technology and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University are among the popular universities.
Lithuania is known for courses in laser technology, agricultural and medical sciences, engineering and arts. It’s also much cheaper to study in Lithuania compared to other popular destinations.
The country offers plenty of work opportunities.
Countries like Germany continue to be popular for engineering, Italy for design and Russia for medicine.
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US, UK, France Launching Airstrikes on Syria: Here is the history of Chemical Weapons

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US, UK, France Launching Airstrikes on Syria: Here is the history of Chemical Weapons

The first large-scale chemical weapon attack was carried out with chlorine and mustard gas (yperite) on April 22, 1915, at Ypres in Belgium


Mustard gas-filled 155mm projectiles inside a chemical storage igloo, in an undated photo provided by the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity (CMA) in Pueblo, Colorado

This happened during the First World War when the Germans attacked French, Canadian and Algerian troops. It killed 90,000 people and over one million casualties were seen during the war.

The use of chemicals in weapon tools was prevalent for thousands of years now. Poisoned arrows, boiling tar, arsenic smoke, and noxious fumes were commonly known agents of chemical weapons.

How were chemical weapons used?

The mode of formation of chemical weapons started on the battlefields of World War I.

In this war, the battlefields were immersed with gases like chlorine and phosgene. They were released from canisters and dispersed by the wind on the battlefield.
These chemicals were manufactured in huge quantity by the turn of the century. After being manufactured, they were deployed to the battlefields of trench warfare that lasted for an unusually long time in World War I.

A trench warfare is a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. The most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I.

Around 124,000 tonnes of chemical agents were used by the end of World War I.

World War I and II munitions prepared for destruction lie in a cage at the Society for the Disposal of Chemical Weapons and Ordinance (GEKA), is the only German company which is able to destroy chemical munitions countrywide:
Chemical weapons were deployed on a large scale in almost all theatres in the First and Second World Wars.

The United States and the Soviet Union maintained tens of thousands of stockpiles of chemical weapons during the Cold War. This amount of chemical weapons was enough to destroy most of the human and animal life on Earth.

 

How can chemical warfare cripple lives?


Those injured in chemical warfare suffers from the effects for the rest of their lives this is what makes the events like at Ieper during World War I, a generation scarring.

Blistering skin, eye damage, and excruciating deaths were other reasons that the nations decided to ban chemical weapons after World War I.

 

Major instances where chemical weapons were used


Examples of the use of chemical weapons were the sarin poisoning incident in Matsumoto, a Japanese residential community, in 1994, and the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 -- both perpetrated by the Aum Shinrikyu doomsday cult.
Iraq used chemical weapons in Iran during the war in the 1980s.
At least 5,000 people were gassed to death in 1988 when the Iraqi air force dropped chemical bombs on Halabja in the country's Kurdish north - a defining moment in a long history of oppression:

East Ghouta, Saraqeb, Douma in Syria are the most recent victims of chemical weapons in 2018. Chlorine gas was used to attack the civilians in these areas.
A diagram released in a United Nations report in 2013 on possible use of chemical weapons in Syria shows markings and dimensions of warheads found in the area visited by UN inspectors:
Combatting chemical weapons

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is implemented by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is headquartered in The Hague with about 500 employees.
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Director General, Ahmet Uzumcu speaks during a news conference in the Hague. The OPCW has won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.
CWC is a multilateral treaty that bans chemical weapons and requires their destruction within a specified period of time.

The duration of this treaty is unlimited and more comprehensive than the 1925 Geneva Protocol. Geneva protocol of 1925 outlaws the use but not the possession of chemical weapons.
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