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139-yr-old house rolls through San Francisco to new address

A 139-year-old Victorian house was moved in one piece through the streets of San Francisco to its new home Sunday. The 5,170-square-foot house, known as the Englander House, was relocated from its......

Indian-American OpenAI whistleblower found dead in US

A 26-year-old Indian-origin former employee of the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has died by suicide in San Francisco, authorities said. IMAGE: OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji.......

Indian consulate caught dumping visa applications

The Indian Consulate in San Francisco was caught in a controversy when the San Francisco Chronicle reported that it dumped documents and paperwork submitted along with the visa application, in the......

Indian American killed in his California mansion

Raveesh Ravi Kumra, an Indian American millionaire was killed by intruders who barged into his home in Los Gatos-Monte Sereno, California last Friday.The incident occurred at around 1:30 am at the......

ISKCON banned from soliciting at LA airport

In a setback to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the California Supreme Court has ruled that the soliciting being done by the Hare Krishna members at the busy Los......

Wedding bells for Google co-founder Larry Page

Google Inc co-founder and one of the world's wealthiest men Larry Page will tie the nuptial knot with his girlfriend next month.The marriage will take place on December8 at an undisclosed location,......

Silicon Valley pushes for H-1B visas

Reflecting the mood of the Silicon Valley, prominent media outlets from California have come out openly in support of the H-1B work visas and opposed increasing the "hire Americans" call in the......

How to automate money to get rich

Within days of publication last month, Ramit Sethi's book I will Teach You to be Rich became a bestseller. That is a feat, given that books on personal finance are a dime a dozen. But the......

Google's clean energy plan for US

America will have to shell out $4.4 trillion if it needs clean energy, according to a plan drawn by Google Inc that calls for a big push in wind, solar and geothermal power to replace fossil fuels.......

Apple wants to buy electric car company Tesla Motors

Tesla Motors Inc has had "conversations" with Apple Inc, Chief Executive Elon Musk confirmed to Bloomberg TV on Thursday, responding to speculation that the iPhone and iPad maker had shown interest......

TV celebrity Rosie O'Donnel weds same-sex partner

Comedian and former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell, who protested President George W Bush's call for a constitutional ban on gay marriage, married her longtime girlfriend.O'Donnell and Kelli......

Halle Berry and Eric Benet separate!

Hollywood is famed for its movies and infamousfor the broken marriages among its glamorous denizens.BruceWillis and Demi Moore,Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Sadie Frost and Jude Law andSharon Stone......

Vanity Fair gets mixed reviews

Major American critics disagreeover Mira Nair's Vanity Fair. While some of the large circulated newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle......

Zodiac chills

The Zodiac Killer is one of the great unsolved serial killer mysteries of all time, taking only second place to Jack the Ripper. David Fincher, who gave us the classically cold and edgy Se7en,......

19 Brilliant Movies You Need To Watch

Sukanya Verma gives us a lowdown on all those wonderful movies she saw and movies you need to see as and when they arrive to a screen or streaming space near you. A lot has changed since the 2019......

Jones allegedly used drugs in Sydney

Olympic champion Marion Jones was using drugs at the Sydney Games according to her ex-husband C.J. Hunter, a report in the San Francisco Chronicle has alleged. The newspaper said that former shot......

FBI searches BALCO head's home

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted a new search of the home of Victor Conte, the head of the BALCO lab at the center of a global steroid scandal, a spokeswoman said on......

NFL's Houston Texans kneel during anthem after owner's 'inmates' remark

'We can't have the inmates running the prison' IMAGE: Houston Texans inside linebacker Benardrick McKinney (55), linebacker Ben Heeney (50), strong safety Marcus Gilchrist (21) and teammates kneel......