When developed, Dr Jayaraman's work could be applied to various light-induced transformations to the synthesis of a number of chiral molecules.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said Republican front runner and presumptive presidential nominee Senator John McCain will not ask him to be his vice-presidential mate even though his name was circulating in some Conservative circles.

The win capped an amazing weekend for the first-time senator.

Obama, aiming to become the first black US president in history, garnered roughly twice the votes received by Hillary in Nebraska and Washington, which have 24 and 78 delegates respectively who will go to the Democratic National Convention to elect the party's nominee for the presidential election.

"I think the mistake that I made is to think that I was a spouse like any other spouse who could defend his candidate. I think I can promote Hillary but not defend her because I was president," Clinton said. Clinton's comments while campaigning for his wife, including comparing Obama's bid to the unsuccessful campaign of an earlier black presidential hopeful, Jesse Jackson, resulted in a bitter war of words between the two top Democratic contenders.

Shocked Indian students in North America have launched an online petition addressed to the Indian government and the Indian embassy in Washington, lashing out at the alleged apathy of local autorities in the case.

Abhijeet Mahato, 29, an IIT alumnus who was studying for an engineering doctorate degree at the Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering in Durham, was found dead at his residence near the campus on Friday night. He had been shot dead.

Abhijit Mahato, described by his friends as an outgoing graduate student who was seldom seen without a smile, was found shot and killed at an off-campus apartment complex on Friday night.

He promised a "New Louisiana" that will be a magnet for the dreamers, the risk-takers, the adventurers, the leaders of America's new economy, Jindal said immediately after being sworn in as Louisiana's 55th governor.

'Image-conscious India surely will have an eye on him, the highest-ranking political figure of Indian heritage in America. And that could be an advantage for Louisiana,' The Times-Picayune reported.

He will be the first person of Indian-origin to hold the governor's post, symbolising the growing clout of the Indian American community in the US political arena. He will also be the first non-White governor in the country since a Reconstruction era figure held the job briefly 130 years ago.

The boys, who were murdered on the campus of the Louisiana State University in the United States on December 14, were flown in to Hyderabad on Sunday, from where they were taken to their respective hometowns for their last rites to be performed.

"I cannot believe this is happening. I was here to see off Kiran when he left for the US and today, I stand here to receive his dead body," said a friend.

The additional $4000, however, will only be paid for information that is received through the Crime Stoppers tip line before midnight Christmas Eve (Monday night, December 24th).

A private donor, who wished to remain anonymous, has donated US$ 4,000 to add to the US$ 1,000 reward that was already being offered for information leading to the arrest of the killers of doctoral students, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma of Hyderabad, and Kiran Kumar Allam of Kurnool.

Louisiana's Republican Governor-elect, Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal, has broken his silence over the murders of the two Indian graduate students on the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge last week, and said he hopes the perpetrators of this horrific crime will be brought to justice soon.

The bodies of the two Indian students of Louisiana State University, who were killed last week, are likely to be flown back to their native place in Hyderabad on Thursday, official sources said in Houston on Tuesday.

Local authorities have assured Indian diplomats that the bodies, which have been kept in the local funeral home since Sunday, will be ready for flying back home after completion of some last minutes formalities. "The bodies are pending some last minute documentation and by Tuesday afternoon it will be made clear when they will be flown back home," Deputy Consul Houston Consulate K P Pillai said.

Investigators believe that the suspects were scouting for an opportunity to rob someone. They might have observed Komma arrive at the complex to visit his friend Allam, and might have followed him into latter's apartment.

Officials from the four-agency task force, which is being assisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, resumed their conversations with residents of Edward Gay Apartments where Kiran Kumar Allam, 33, and Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma, 31, were found shot dead. Authorities also knocked on the doors of nearby apartments and left fliers at the houses where they did not make contact with anyone.

A four-agency task force probing the killing of two Indian doctoral students at a Louisiana State University apartment has intensified investigations, but has so far been unable to identify the motive behind the double homicide as two senior Indian officials reached the campus to take the stock of the situation.

A special taskforce formed on Saturday to probe the gruesome killing of two Indian doctoral students at their Louisiana State University apartment has launched a massive manhunt for three suspects described as "black men".

"Consul K P Pillai from the Consulate General (Houston) and First Secretary Alok Pande from the Embassy of India are being dispatched to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, today to establish contact with the University authorities, Police Department and the Indian American Community to render all possible assistance," the Indian Embassy in Washington said in a statement.

Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, two PhD students from India at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, were found murdered at their apartment on December 13.

Among the speakers will be F C Kohli, former vice chairman, TCS, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder chairman and CEO, rediff.com, Prabhakar Raghavan, head, Yahoo! Research, USA, Dr Pandu Nayak of Google, USA, Professor Noshir Contractor of Kellogg School of Management; Professor Vijay V Raghavan of University of Louisiana, Dr Rohini Srihari, CEO, Janya Inc & Faculty, University at Buffalo, among others.

The Malaysian Hindus used to be Indians hundreds of years ago. Now, they are as Malaysian as any ethnic Malay.

Past Rhodes scholars from America who have studied at Oxford University include president Bill Clinton, the newly elected Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and the eminent surgeon and bestselling writer Atul Gawande.

The Indian-American Governor-elect of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, on Sunday said that lack of familiarity, as opposed to a discomfort over his roots, was a major reason why he did not get to the state house four years ago when he first ran for the high office.

Congressman Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican and the co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, was the first one to take to the House floor to congratulate Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal on his election as the next Governor of Louisiana. Wilson was the only Congressional colleague of Jindal's who went to Louisiana to help in his campaign. He also attended a rally in New Orleans the day before the election on October 20.

Jindal faces significant challenges as the chief executive of Louisiana, a state which was devastated by hurricans Katrina and Rita.

With 3,942 or the 3,967 precincts reporting after the polls closed at 8 pm on October 20, Jindal had received a massive 685,555 votes or 53.69 percent, which put him over the top of the magic 50 percentile that precludes a November run-off and automatically makes him the next governor of this Cajun state

As voters in Louisiana begin going to the polls on October 20 to cast their ballot in this Cajun State's gubernatorial primary, front-runner Congressman Piyush 'Bobby'Jindal stands on the verge of creating history by becoming the first even Indian American governor. The most recent polls have shown that Jindal has the support of nearly 50 per cent of the electorate.

The Sethu Samudram project is a prestige issue for so-called 'Dravidian' politicians. It is a matter of hubris waiting for nemesis.

Michael Pritchard's bottle uses a filter that can clean up any water including faecal matter making it a veritable boon in disaster-hit areas where clean drinking water is rare

The Louisiana Democratic Party accused Bobby Jindal of being anti-Protestant.

The adenovirus-36 is known to cause respiratory and eye infections; scientists now say it can also transform adult stem cells found under the skin into the fat cells of adipose tissue.

Slaving away in the gym might just be a waste of time for many, for one in every six persons doesn't get any benefit from it in shedding weight or toning the body.

Crowley said that Sri Sri's "...commitment to helping those who may not help themselves is striking."

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His mentor may go up against Jindal.