West Springfield, Pennsylvania: Six Indian nationals who were on their way to visit Niagara Falls were killed when their minivan spun out of control and was hit by an oncoming car on a Pennsylvania highway, police said on Sunday.

Four of those killed worked at the Troy, Michigan-based Syntel Inc, an information technology company, and two were spouses of employees, company spokesman Jonathan James said on Sunday.

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LONDON: Two cousins of Indian origin at the University of Oxford have overnight become millionaires after a free online service they started for students was sold for 2.5 million pounds within months after its launch.

Kulveer Taggar, 24, and Harjeet Taggar, 22, started their company ‘Auctomatic’ as a free online service while studying and working in the university’s student society Oxford Entrepreneurs. Read the full story

LONDON/VIJAYAWADA: The brutal assault and death of the 23-year-old student from Vijayawada in Birmingham continues to be shrouded in mystery, though the police have arrested a youth on suspicion of murder.

A West Midlands policeman on Thursday told TOI that a murder inquiry has been launched into Vempala Samrajya Jyothirmayi’s death in her apartment. “The arrested man, aged around 24 years, is helping us in the probe,” he said, but refused to specify the man’s nationality. “There is no indication of any motive at this stage.”

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In a last-ball finish, with all results possible till the very end, Chennai managed to sneak a four-wicket win, breaking a three-game losing streak in a humdinger watched by near-50,000 at the Kotla.

Shoaib Malik began the last over, with Chennai needing 15, and was dispatched over midwicket by Manpreet Gony for a six straight up. A smear across the line ended in a thick edge for four to third-man, a generous wide helped the score along and when Badrinath chipped inside-out over cover for a controlled brace, the scores were levelled.

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