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Hawking: Essential to colonise space

A December 14, 2011 photo shows Stephen Hawking in his office at the University of Cambridge. 	— AFP

World-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who will turn 70 on Sunday, has said that humans will have to colonise space soon to avoid catastrophes like a nuclear war or glob

Writing his way to success

Prajwal, who currently is pursuing a master’s degree in creative writing at the University of Oxford’s Kellogg College, got the publishing deal from Quercus Books without anything being printed as yet

Bidve family may leave UK with body tomorrow

The parents of murdered Indian student Anuj Bidve, shot and killed in Salford on Boxing Day, is due to arrive in London from Pune on Wednesday evening.

Bidve murder accused: ‘I’m Psycho’

Kiaran Mark Stapleton, 20, has been charged with the Boxing Day murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve at Salford, Greater Manchester.

TN-born nobel laureate becomes Sir Venki

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Indian-born American scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, was on Saturday honoured with a knighthood

Nobel winner Dr Venki receives knighthood

Indian-born American scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, was on Saturday honoured with a knighthood in the 2012 New Year Honours list. The list is issued annually by Queen Elizabeth II to recognise outstanding achievement and service across the whole of the United Kingdom.

Admissibility of CBI evidence: No decision yet

The extradition of Ravi Shankaran, the main accused in the Naval war-room leak case, is still bogged down in procedural details as district judge Nicholas Evans on Friday decided delay his formal ruling on admissibility of evidence and start the extradition case.

Cruise, auction to mark tragedy

British cities of Southampton, Belfast and Liverpool, French city of Cherbourg, Cobh in Ireland and New York in the United States will mark the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic with auction

Running a country? An app for it soon

British Prime Minister David Cameron will soon get a personalised iPad application, specifically designed for him, which will collate all government statistics from across the Whitehall bureaucracy and also provide him with a live news feed.

‘Dow move to drop logos from panels is inadequate’

British activists, who are lobbying against the sponsorship by Dow Chemical Company of the London Olympics next year, have described the move to drop all branding of the fabric wrap panels around the

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