2 dead in murder-suicide at University of California campus

Two men died on Wednesday in a murder-suicide at the University of California's Los Angeles campus, prompting a lockdown for two hours and a massive security deployment at the sprawling facility,......

Omar Yaghi: The Live-Wire Nobel Laureate

'It was from him I learnt that if you gave the student the freedom to find his own path, he would be more courageous to experiment.' IMAGE: Professor Omar Yaghi in his lab at the University of......

Robots Kick Off!

Glimpses from India and around the world that will make you smile and cry.   Robots Kick Off IMAGE: Booster Robotics T1 humanoid robots demonstrate playing a 5-on-5 soccer game on a football......

California prof gets National Science Award

Dr Sabeeha Merchanthas won the prestigious 2005 Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal awarded by the National Academy of Sciences. Merchant is a professor of biochemistry at the department of chemistry and......

'Service sector key to GDP and jobs'

India among developing nations is far ahead in becoming a service economy, says Uday Karmarkar, founder and director of the Anderson's Business and Information Technologies Project at the......

'If you don't innovate, someone else will'

India is the 11th country on his agenda this year-- and the diary's still open. But Robert Tucker doesn't find the constant travel exhausting. Instead, the corporate innovation guru uses the......

The Internet is 40 years old!

It may sound surprising, but the Internet is actually 40 years old today. Len Kleinrock, a computer scientist and his team at UCLA began experiments, laying the foundation of what later became the......

Interview with TCS CEO S Ramadorai

S Ramadorai has spent 32 years in Tata Consultancy Services, becoming its CEO in 1996, taking it through a successful listing last year and playing a key role in turning it into a $2-billion Asian......

Meet Shah Rukh Khan's son, Aryan

A generation of youngsters are waiting in the wings, ready for their shot at being the Next Big Bollywood Star.Meet Aryan Khan, Shah Rukh Khan's 'dude child'. Aryan takes up, almost identically,......

Remembering Bollywood's big supporter

'Richard Corliss started loving Bollywood late in his career, but he gave everything he had in his power as a critic to promote India's Hindi cinema.' Aseem Chhabra remembers Time magazine's film......

Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin dies in a car accident

Anton Yelchin, best known for playing Chekov in the new Star Trek films, has died. He was 27. The actor, who also appeared in Terminator Salvation, died on June 19 in a "fatal traffic......

Aishwarya, Aamir, Salman: Bollywood's OLDEST college students

In the Bollywood scheme of things, age is as irrelevant as logic. Acting is all about pretending to be someone else. And in Bollywood, it's not just limited to personality. No matter how old an......

Cricket venue for 2028 Los Angeles Games unveiled

IMAGE: Cricket made its only appearance in the Olympics at the Paris Games in 1900. Photograph: Carlin Stiehl/Reuters Pomona, a city in South California, will host the cricket competition during......

Hewitt goes out in Los Angeles

Second seed Lleyton Hewitt of Australia was upset 6-4, 6-4 by American Paul Goldstein in the first round of the Los Angeles Open on Tuesday. Former champion Tommy Haas of Germany advanced with a......

PIX: Humanoid robot ARTEMIS ready to play some soccer!

IMAGE: A full-sized humanoid robot named ARTEMIS is shown at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, where mechanical engineering students developed a first of its kind robot in Los Angeles,......

LeBron's Teenage Son Has Cardiac Arrest

IMAGE: Bronny James, left, speaks to his dad basketball legend LeBron James. Photograph: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports via Reuters   Bronny James, NBA legend LeBron James's 18-year-old......

UCLA basketball players arrested in China

IMAGE: LiAngelo Ball looks on before the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft. Photograph: Mike Stobe/Getty Images. Three UCLA men's basketball players were arrested in China for shoplifting on......