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India's junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor said that New Delhi has issued a note of caution to Indian students studying in Australia following a series of attacks.Accounting graduate Nitin Garg, 21, originally from the state of Punjab in northern India, was stabbed to death on Saturday night on his way to a job at a fast food outlet in Melbourne. The killing follows a series of attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney in 2009.India's Foreign Ministry issued an advisory to Indian students studying in Australia, cautioning them about several incidents of robbery and assault and urging them to be careful.There are, sadly, incidences of violence and crime everywhere, including in our country. What we don't want is for a continuing pattern of attacks against our citizens. So we have taken steps of advising our citizens what to do and what not to do, Tharoor said.Let's leave it to the Australian government to deal with the problem as a law and order problem in their own country, he added.
