US Consulate General, Chennai, Christopher Hodges pointed out that computer science, artificial intelligence, business administration dominated the academic enquiries from South India.
Expressing regrets over the attacks on Indian students, Eric Garcetti, the US Ambassador to India, said that “our heart always is touched" by such tragedies.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Wednesday expressed his distress over the recent attacks on Indian students in the US and urged the External Affairs Minister to address the issue.
Sameer Kamath, a 23-year old Indian-American student at Purdue University, was found dead in a nature preserve in Indiana. Authorities have ruled his death as suicide.