Instead of pursuing a career in scientific research, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize [ Images ] in chemistry with two others, would perhaps have practised medicine, but for a sudden impromptu trip of his father. More than four decades ago, Venkatraman, then a Baroda resident, got the national talent award after finishing .. more »

Jermaine Jackson gestures next upon his arrival at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai last week. Jermaine, older brother of the late pop star Michael Jackson, is on a ten-day visit, as he plans to record a song with composer-singer Adnan Sami for an album and is also expected to interact with Michael's fans in Mumbai .. more »

HYDERABAD/BANGALORE: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and home minister P Chidambaram will visit flood-hit Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka on Monday and Tuesday to assess the havoc wreaked by heavy rains there and meet the affected people... more »

Exactly one week before actor Amitabh Bachchan turns 69, he plays arguably his biggest and most controversial role. It’s that of a pop psychologist to the attention-hungry commoners, starring in a television reality show starting tonight. But is this seemly for a legendary actor, who could legitimately be called a matinee idol in the best, ol.. more »

HYDERABAD: The threat of massive flooding loomed large over Andhra Pradesh's Vijayawada city and hundreds of villages in Krishna and Guntur districts with the water level in the Prakasam barrage across the Krishna river reaching the maximum level on Monday. The inflows in the barrage have reached a record million cusecs, inundating parts of .. more »

LEH (J&K): The Chinese army has done some construction activities along the international border across Karakoram ranges in Ladakh sector for the first time since the 1962 stand-off between the two countries with a report of Jammu and Kashmir government saying that they have been taking "land in inches and not in yards". The Chinese Army - .. more »

MELBOURNE: The Australian police on Wednesday denied that a deliberate decision was taken to minimise publicity over the brutal assault on four Indians at the weekend. The Indians were attacked by a group outside a bar in Epping on Saturday and the attackers told the victims "You Indians, just go back to your country"... more »

BANGALORE: Indian media should stop criticising the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for abruptly terminating Chandrayaan-1 and instead applaud the success of its moon mission, a European space scientist has said. Although its life was cut short, ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 was a "fantastic success", Detlef Koschny, European Chandrayaan-1 .. more »

Chaos reigned supreme during the funeral of the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, forcing the authorities to move the body of the ex-Andhra Pradesh chief minister an hour before schedule... more »

TEHRAN: Iran's parliament strongly backed on Thursday a cabinet proposed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that includes the Islamic republic's first woman minister and a man wanted for bombing a Jewish community centre in Argentina... more »

BANGALORE: After a private - family and close friends only - wedding ceremony earlier in the morning, the Murthys threw open the Leela for a Bride Akshata, daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy with bridegroom Rishi during their wedding function in Bangalore. (TOI Photo) More Pictures large reception for over 1,000 people on Sunday .. more »

HYDERABAD: Within hours of the official confirmation on Thursday that chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had indeed died in a helicopter crash in the forests of Kurnool district a day earlier, a public clamour and a silent campaign has begun for making YSR’s son and Kadapa Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy the next CM of the state... more »

HYDERABAD: The body of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who was killed in a helicopter crash, will be brought to Hyderabad from Kurnool by 5 pm, finance minister K Rosaiah said on Thursday... more »

three more swine flu deaths were reported from Karnataka, taking the toll due to the H1N1 virus to 31 in the state, health officials said Thursday... more »

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were killed when their helicopter crashed on a hillock, about 49 nautical miles east of Kurnool, more than an hour it took off from here yesterday. The charred bodies and the wreckage of the twin-engined Bell 430 helicopter were located at 8.30 AM on Thursday on a .. more »