Why can't the Indian Embassy be sensible?

Getting a student visa should be simple.  At least it was when I had applied for the student visa to go to US. All I needed was my F1 documentation from the university.  As I had full scholarship I did not even have to prove that I had enough resources to support myself. The only thing that was going to be impediment was that I had hordes of relatives in the US and there was no guarantee that I would come back. However, the visa officer was very nice. He forbore to ask me too many probing questions and I had my visa that evening.
Now I am the foreign student adviser and I realize that things are really not that simple. At least not where India is concerned.  For one, the Indian embassies do not seem to have a protocol as to what documents they need from the student.  For another, they seem to be very happy asking for things the administration and I are clueless about.  So the last few days I have been grappling with queries from foreign students who have got admission to help them with the paper work.  There was a frantic email from a student in Greece. The Indian Embassy wanted a tuition fee receipt.  Of course a receipt will be issued as soon the student pays the tuition fee.  But the tuition fee will be paid at the time of registration. And the registration can happen only when the student comes to India.  How do we issue the student a receipt? 
The next was a email from a student from South Korea.  The Indian Embassy in South Korea wants certification of business register. We had no idea what this certificate was.  I searched the internet and found the nearest thing to this in ISO certificate but JNU does not have one because we were created by an Act of Parliament.  The nearest thing to this we have is the NAAC accreditation which we dispatched to the student. I hope it suffices.
Today I got a call from Bangaldesh.  The Indian High Commission wants an affiliation certificate.  Fortunately, they have been considerate enough to provide the student with a format of the certificate. On Monday, I will have to get it filled, signed by the registrar and send it off to the student.
I am now waiting to see what else the Indian Embassies/High Commission asks. But what really bothers me is that  why each Embassy/High Commission has its own list of paperwork.  Shouldn't it be the same for all and shouldn't we be informed about it?  But I guess this is Indian Bureaucracy.

What do female scientists do- as per Tim Hunt

Tim Hunt, the Nobel Prize winner, kicked up a storm when he declared that he preferred single-sex labs as women cry and distract men.  Apparently we women are capable of only two things- Romance and Tears.
There has been hilarious response to Tim Hunt's comments. They can be found here, and here. Probably there are more of them but that is all I could find in the morning while I am trying to finish the cooking, watering the plants and getting ready for the lab.  I do not have any photographs of myself working (oops! romancing and crying) in the lab but somehow  purifying the protein and RNA from calf thymus and rabbit tissues has never been conducive for taking photographs. And I am talking of those days when we had to use film rolls and then develop it later. I wish I had but when you are using phenol and chloroform to break down rabbit tissues to extract tRNA, the last thing you have in mind is photographs and romancing and tears.
It is not the first time a Nobel Prize winner has made an ass of himself.  There was James Watson some years back kicking up a storm and finally resigning as Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  His view of Rosalind Franklin, who took all the X-ray images of DNA that Watson analyzed, is well-known. Of course, he never acknowledged Franklin.  The Nobel Prize went to Watson, Crick, and Wilkins.  Franklin was dead by then.
At home, we women know how hard it is to break the glass-ceiling. We are overlooked for most of the awards. A colleague once told me that he always wants to give the men a higher salary because they have to run the house.  I have still not recovered from that remark.
Ultimately, it is as  Ginger Rogers said:
"Sure, he (Fred Astaire) was great but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did every thing he did backwards....and in high heels."