India Asks Australia To End Travel Curbs For Students Amid Covid

Tens of thousands of students go to top international universities worldwide with Australia among the key destinations.

Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar urged Australia today to ease coronavirus travel restrictions for thousands of students who have been unable to get into the country since the pandemic started 18 months ago. Tens of thousands of students go to top international universities worldwide with Australia among the key destinations. Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said he raised the issue "in some detail" with his Australian counterpart Marise Payne alongside talks between defence ministers from both countries dominated by Afghanistan. "We have heard a lot from the students and I think their frustrations, their feelings, are completely understandable," Mr Jaishankar told reporters.