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a day ago
- Business
- News18
Three Australian universities get UGC nod to set up Indian campus
New Delhi, Jul 29 (PTI) Three top Australian universities were granted Letter of Intent (LoI) on Tuesday to set up their campuses in India on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the new National Education Policy (NEP), officials said. The three universities are Western Sydney University, Victoria University and La Trobe University. While Western Sydney University (WSU) will set up its campus in Greater Noida, Victoria University will set up its campus in Noida and La Trobe University is coming up with its campus in Bengaluru. Established in 1989, WSU is a leading public research university with 13 campuses and over 49,000 students across Sydney. 'Known for its strong commitment to sustainability and social impact, WSU plans to establish a branch in Greater Noida offering BA in Business Analytics, BA in Business Marketing, MBA in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and MBA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management," a senior MoE official said. Founded in 1916, Victoria University is one of Australia's few dual-sector institutions offering both higher education and vocational (TAFE) programs. It has a strong offshore presence in China, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka, and is known for applied research in sports science, business and IT. 'VU's Noida campus is proposed to offer undergraduate courses in Business, Data Science and Cyber Security. The postgraduate courses will include MBA and Master's in IT," the official said. With its origins in 1964, La Trobe University is recognised for excellence in applied research, especially in smart cities, molecular sciences and biotech. 'La Trobe's campus in Bengaluru will offer undergraduate courses in Business (Finance, Marketing, Management), Computer Science (AI, Software Engineering), and Public Health," the official said. In 2023, the University Grants Commission had announced setting up and operation of campuses under the Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India Regulations. PTI GJS GJS DV DV view comments First Published: July 29, 2025, 14:00 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Fox News
Bryan Kohberger questioned: Inside his first interview with police after Idaho student murders
Bryan Kohberger, the killer of four University of Idaho students, remained calm during his first police interview, speaking at length about his Ph.D. program before abruptly shifting focus to his parents, his dog, and his constitutional right to an attorney. According to a newly released police summary from the Moscow Police Department, Kohberger, 30, acknowledged receiving a crime alert from Washington State University (WSU) and admitted, "of course" he knew about the killings but invoked his Fifth Amendment rights when pressed for details. Moscow Police Cpl. Brett Payne and Idaho State Police Det. Darren Gilberton spoke to Kohberger at the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Stroudsburg. When Payne introduced himself, Kohberger said, "you do look familiar," according to a report from Moscow police. Kohberger said "the only thing he heard of from Moscow was an alert that came to his phone," according to that report. In Kohberger's first interview with police following the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle, the students' killer openly talked about his decision to pursue a Ph.D. in criminology. "Knowledge was far more important to him than money," police said, adding that Kohberger said he "loved being in college." He described applying only to WSU and UC Irvine because they didn't require the GRE, and said he had recently returned home to Pennsylvania after driving across the country with his father. Kohberger added WSU had a good program to study under and then said "you guys know all about this more than likely," police documents said. The conversation shifted from small talk, including talking about WSU football and sports, to Kohberger saying he "would appreciate it if we [police] would explain to him what he was doing there," according to the report. Kohberger deflected when asked why he thought the police were there, telling Gilbertson he'd rather have them tell him. "Det. Gilbertson said we were there because of what occurred in Moscow but did not provide any further detail," the report said. Gilbertson asked Kohberger if he watched the news. Kohberger said, "I watch the news." Kohberger then asked where his parents were and where his dog was. READ THE POLICE INTERVIEW WITH KOHBERGER – APP USERS, CLICK HERE The interview, which took place around 2 a.m., shifted to Kohberger's recent drive back to Pennsylvania. Kohberger said he drove across the country and wanted the challenge of that and experience it with his father. He shared that he took a different route back home with his father for Christmas Break to avoid snow. Police said that he began to speak about the beauty of the environment and its relationship to God and a higher power. "We spoke about this for some time and Kohberger said he was raised Christian but was always a skeptic except when confronted with the beauty of the natural world," the police document said. When asked if his father and he had made any stops on their lengthy road trip back to Pennsylvania, Kohberger said that their "main goal was just [to] drive." "Kohberger then told a story about seeing an unmarked police car near Kansas City speed up behind him, catch up to another vehicle, turn on its emergency lights, then drive away. "Kohberger thought this was strange and was unsure why it occurred," the document said. When the police told Kohberger that the attack on the Idaho students was why they were there and asked him if he wanted to talk about that, Kohberger replied: "I think I would need a lawyer."
The Herald
5 days ago
- The Herald
Bid for promotion leads to arrest for ‘degree fraud'
An Eastern Cape prosecutor has been arrested by the Hawks on charges of fraud, forgery and uttering for allegedly submitting forged academic qualifications to secure employment. Police spokesperson W/O Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana said the 33-year-old had been enrolled for a Bachelor of law (LLB) degree at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) between January 2010 and December 2016. He allegedly failed to meet the academic requirements to graduate. Despite this, he allegedly submitted a falsified LLB degree certificate and a bogus legal education and development (Lead) attendance report as part of his application to the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) aspirant prosecutor programme, which required a legitimate LLB qualification or proof of final year status. Mhlakuvana said the accused was appointed as an aspirant prosecutor i n January 2021 and later elevated to the position of public prosecutor. Proof of his qualifications was requested when he sought to climb the career ladder. "The accused applied for promotion at regional court as a prosecutor using the same credentials and he was shortlisted for appointment. However, the NPA requested him to submit the original academic certificates," Mhlakuvana said. He resigned with effect from March 15. "The institution picked up discrepancies in his qualifications and referred the matter to the Hawks for investigation. "The Hawks confirmed WSU had never conferred an LLB degree to him and Lead had never issued him the attendance report due to outstanding fees. "Through misrepresentation, the NPA suffered financial prejudice of more than R1.1m from the salaries paid to him during his fraudulent term of employment." The would-be prosecutor was arrested on July 22 and briefly appeared before the Mthatha specialised commercial crime court on the same day, where he was granted R5,000 bail. The case was postponed to August 18. TimesLIVE
Daily Mail
18-07-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Why WSU police chief refused to give Brian Kohberger a job after face-to-face meeting... months before he was caught for Idaho murders
The police chief at Washington State University had no way of knowing that the suspect in the brutal quadruple murders he was alerted to on November 13, 2022, was the same guy who'd asked him for a job just months before. He wouldn't find out that the job applicant - polite WSU criminology student Bryan Kohberger - was the same person who stabbed four young University of Idaho students in their beds until more than a month later, just two days before Kohberger was arrested at his family's home in Pennsylvania. Gary Jenkins, Chief of Police for WSU's campus, spoke exclusively about his brief but eerie connection to Bryan Kohberger to who has now admitted to slaughtering four University of Idaho students in their sleep at an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. Jenkins was then the police chief of Pullman when Kohberger, who arrived in the summer of 2022 to start doctoral work at WSU, applied for a research assistant gig at the department. Jenkins came virtual face-to-face with the future convicted murderer via Zoom - and while he is unable to go into specific detail because of the gag order still in effect - indicated that Kohberger did not seem to have the 'social skills' Jenkins felt would be needed for the position. 'I interviewed him for an interim position at Pullman Police Department before I came to WSU,' Jenkins said at his spacious home in Pullman, where he spoke last week to the Daily Mail, accompanied by his two rescue dogs, Lexi and Bailey. 'He wasn't selected – he just wasn't the best fit.' But Jenkins admitted there was nothing so unusual about Kohberger that he could ever imagine finding out he was responsible for one of the most gruesome murder sprees in Idaho history. Although he ultimately decided Brian Kohberger wasn't the 'right fit' for the job, Jenkins said he had no sense the criminology student was capable of murder and was stunned to learn months later that he had interviewed the Idaho 4 killer over Zoom in April 2022 'It was a great pleasure to meet with you today and share my thoughts and excitement regarding the research assistantship for public safety,' Kohberger reportedly wrote to Jenkins shortly after they met on April 12, 2022. 'I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Bryan,' he added. Jenkins reportedly replied: 'Great to meet and talk to you as well.' Kohberger had been on campus for just one semester before the killings in nearby Moscow, just 8 miles away, rattled the twin college towns. Residents who once left their doors unlocked began checking over their shoulders. 'It was shocking,' Jenkins said. 'Violent crime happens very infrequently in this area. To have something of that magnitude occur – it was uncharacteristic and terrifying for the community.' The chief said his department scrambled to alert students as word of the bloodbath spread. 'We had to issue an alert because the murders happened so close to Pullman and WSU. Students were scared – there was essentially an active stabber out there.' 'You hear it all the time after school shootings – people say, 'We never thought it could happen here,' Jenkins said. 'It was the same here. It made people realize violent crimes can happen anywhere.' Jenkins didn't find out Kohberger's identity until December 28, 2022, when his friend, the police chief of Moscow, James Fry, phoned him and told him to come to the Moscow police station, according to the new book, The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy, that came out Monday. Jenkins arrived to find himself in a room packed with local and state cops as well as FBI agents. One of the Moscow detectives, Brett Payne, said they had identified a suspect, and he was living in WSU housing - cops would arrest Kohberger at his parents' home in Pennsylvania two days later. When Jenkins heard the name Bryan Kohberger, he 'flinched,' according to the book, and told his fellow cops about his encounter with Kohberger as a job applicant. Jenkins returned to WSU and sent Kohberger's resume and cover letter to Moscow PD. According to the book, Fry called Jenkins to thank him for the material. 'No problem,' Jenkins told Fry on the phone. 'Oh and Gary one more thing,' Fry is quoted in the book as saying with a 'small chuckle.' 'Aren't you glad you didn't accept his application?' 'More than you know,' Jenkins responded. Jenkins spoke to the Daily Mail just one week after Kohberger appeared in a Boise courtroom and admitted in a shock confession that he killed Ethan Chapin, 20, his girlfriend Xana Kernodle, 20, Maddie Mogen, 21 and Kaylee Goncalves, also 21. Kohberger later pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, a deal that split victims' families. Some wanted a trial; others supported the plea to avoid years of painful appeals. He will be sentenced on July 23 in a Boise courtroom. Jenkins, who has spent decades in law enforcement, believes the plea brings closure. 'Having a guilty plea without the unknowns of a trial or appeals helps the community move forward,' he said. The chief also said that Kohberger's academic background in criminology made the case even more chilling. 'It's rare to see someone studying criminal justice at such an advanced level go on to commit something like this,' Jenkins said. Kohberger now faces life in Idaho's maximum-security prison. 'Prison's going to be a tough life for him,' Jenkins said. 'People who commit certain crimes aren't well received by other inmates.' But he admitted the case has left a scar on both Pullman and Moscow that may never heal. 'It's part of the history of this region now. But I don't think it defines us. What will define us is how the community came together and found justice for the victims and their families.'
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Yahoo
Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger's former friends dive into killer's mindset about why he did it
Idaho student killer Bryan Kohberger's former friends from Pennsylvania and a classmate at Washington State University are baffled that the man they knew to be quiet and awkward pleaded guilty in the mass murder case that rocked the nation. Kohberger, a former WSU criminology Ph.D. student, pleaded guilty on July 2 to killing four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13, 2022, as part of a deal with prosecutors to escape the death penalty. Kohberger faces four consecutive life sentences for fatally stabbing 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, as well as 20-year-olds Xana Kernolde and Ethan Chapin at their off-campus house in the early morning hours of Nov. 13. Kohberger's former childhood friend from his home state of Pennsylvania, 31-year-old Jack Baylis, told The Idaho Statesman his idea that Kohberger developed a fixation on people who commit murder and wanted to see if he could get away with committing the perfect crime. "I think he did it to see what it felt like, to experience it. If he wanted to write a paper about what killers feel and why they kill, to be accurate, you have to experience it yourself to truly understand it," Baylis told the Statesman. "To get into the mind of a killer, you have to be a killer, would be my guess." Bryan Kohberger Pleads Guilty To Idaho Murders Ben Roberts, 33, a former criminology graduate school colleague of Kohberger's at WSU, told the Statesman that Kohberger was "kind of nonexistent" in school. Read On The Fox News App Follow The Fox True Crime Team On X "I noticed that unless he was deliberately trying to put on an appearance – if he didn't have the mask – he was kind of nonexistent, or hollow, I guess," Roberts said. "It's kind of like you're staring into an abyss. There's something human supposed to be there, and it isn't." Idaho Murders Timeline: Bryan Kohberger Plea Caps Yearslong Quest For Justice He added that Kohberger's actions after the murders he has since admitted to committing baffle him. "I just can't even begin to get inside the head of somebody who could do something like that, and then attend class like it's business as usual," Roberts said. "That's just completely alien to me." Sign Up To Get The True Crime Newsletter Another former childhood friend from Pennsylvania, where Kohberger grew up in the Poconos, told the Statesman she feels "disgusted that he could actually do something so heinous." Bryan Kohberger Expected To Officially Plead Guilty: What's Next Kohberger, now 30, did drugs in high school and eventually overcame a heroin addiction. His friends described him as chubby, awkward and quick-witted to the Statesman. "I won't lie, I kind of spiraled yesterday," Casey Arntz, 32, told the newspaper. "Did he ever have thoughts like that before? Did he ever think that he wanted to kill me or my friends? Were we spared because we were friends with him?" Arntz added later that while she wasn't as close with Kohberger as her brother or her other friends were, he still spent time in her parents' house, and she had spent time alone with him, which makes her wonder why he did what he did. GET REAL-TIME UPDATES AT THE FOX NEWS True Crime Hub "I guess the one thing I would say to him is what everyone wants to say to him: 'Why would you do this? Why would you take the innocent lives of four beautiful people?' I can't even begin to imagine what he would say. How does someone justify their actions when they're so morbid?" she said. Bryan Kohberger Accepts Plea Deal In Idaho Student Murders Case Her brother, 29-year-old Thomas Arntz, told the Statesman that he felt relieved that Kohberger pleaded guilty. "I am deeply sorry that Bryan's parents have to live with this as well.… I've always thought they were kind people, and they didn't deserve this. And for Bryan, God have mercy on his soul," he said. Goncalves' family has expressed their disappointment in the plea deal, saying in a July 3 Facebook post on The Goncalves Family Page that the state is showing their daughter's killer "mercy" by allowing him to serve life in prison rather than be sentenced to death, where he could have been executed by firing squad in Idaho. "He deserved life on death row. Also people say that the Goncalves don't want justice, they want vengeance. Well let me ask you a question about that... if your 21yr old daughter was sleeping in her bed and BK went into her house with the intention to kill her and he did, by stabbing her MANY times, as well as beating her in the face and head while it was clear that she fought for her life... what would you want? Justice or vengeance?" the family wrote. Kohberger is set to be sentenced on July 23 at 9 a.m. to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of article source: Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger's former friends dive into killer's mindset about why he did it
