(Reuters) - When Mohammad Hamedi Rad arrived in the United States last year, he carried his Iranian passport, a hard-won student visa and a backpack containing $14,000 in hundred dollar bills, because there was no simpler way of getting money into the country. "It was scary," Hamedi Rad, a chemicalengineeringgraduate student at the University of Illinois ...

Indiaseems to have emerged a sought after destination for students coming fromIran,AfghanistanandNepal. Of the 27,000-odd foreign students, close to 9,600 students from these countries are enrolled in campuses across the country. With 4,779 students studying in India, Nepal leads the table followed by 2,589 students from Iran and 2,164 from Afghanistan....