A British university said it would set up a scholarship in memory of an Indian student shot dead while studying in England.
Lancaster University on Friday announced the Anuj Bidve Memorial Scholarship in honour of 23-year-old Bidve, who was gunned down in Manchester, northwest England on December 26 while walking with a group of friends.
The student, who was from Pune in western India, had been reading postgraduate micro-electronics at Lancaster, 77 kilometres (48 miles) north of the Salford area of Manchester where he was killed. The scholarship will fund a student graduating from the University of Pune to take a postgraduate engineering degree at Lancaster. “The scholarship is a fitting and lasting way of remembering Anuj, who was an outstanding student,” said Lancaster University’s vice-chancellor Professor Mark E Smith.