Fingerprint analysis confirms Indonesia's most wanted terrorist is aliveAugust 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Fingerprint analysis has confirmed that one of two men reported killed in a central Java shoot-out with police was not Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammed Top. Malaysian-born Top is a prime suspect in last month's near simultaneous suicide attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels that killed nine people and wounded 53.
Software engineer from Andhra Pradesh shot dead in USJanuary 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Akshay Vishal, a software engineer from Hyderabad, was shot dead by unidentified people in Arkansas in the US, his father said Thursday. Vishal, 26, was an employee of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services Limited and was on contract with US company Jet Falcon.
Bodies of Indian Software Professionals shot dead in California brought homeApril 17th, 2009 The bodies of a software professional, his wife and baby daughter, killed by his Indian American brother-in-law in California last month, were brought to their native Ayyankolli village in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district Friday for the last rites. The bodies of Ashokan, his wife Suchitra and their daughter Ahaana, were brought to Bangalore by a flight early Friday and then to Ayyankolli in the district, 550 km southwest of state capital Chennai, by road, family sources said.
Another techie from Andhra Pradesh dies in the USJanuary 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Muthyala Purushottam, a 27-year-old software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, was found dead in his flat in Indianapolis in the US, family sources said Thursday. This is the second incident of the death of a techie from the Indian state in the US this month.
Stanford professor Rajeev Motwani, early Google advisor, found dead in home swimming poolJune 8th, 2009 Stanford computer prof. Rajeev Motwani found deadATHERTON, Calif.
Six killed in California family shootingMarch 30th, 2009 Six people, including three children, were killed in a family shooting at an upscale housing development in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, police said Monday. The suspected gunman was believed to be among the dead inside the modern home, said Santa Clara police Lieutenant Phil Cooke.'We do believe this appears to be a family-on-family murder-suicide,' Cooke said in a televised news conference.
US Police interrogating suspect in Indian engineer's murderJanuary 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, are questioning a 20-year old man 'strongly suspected' to be involved in the murder of a software engineer from Hyderabad, working with the scam-hit Satyam Computers. Police declined to release the name and other details of the suspect arrested in connection with the killing of Akshay Vishal, who was shot dead Tuesday in the seventh case of young students and professionals from Andhra Pradesh being killed in the US in last 14 months.
Why is Java import static brain dead?August 29th, 2008 Let's begin with an example. Assume a class MQ is in the package com.taragana.mq.
Slain Indian engineer's body being shipped home from USJanuary 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The body of Akshay Vishal, an employee of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services who was murdered in a robbery attempt in the US, is expected to be flown to India Saturday. A consul from the Indian consulate in Houston has reached Little Rock, Arkansas, where the incident took place, to coordinate with the local authorities and complete the necessary paper work.
US strike in Pakistan killed four top Al-Qaeda men: ReportJanuary 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Jan 1 strike from an unmanned US drone in Pakistan killed four top al-Qaeda operatives, including a suspect in both last year's Islamabad hotel attack and the 1998 truck bombings against US embassies in Africa, the Washington Post reported on its website early Friday. The report cited US counter-terrorism officials with access to secret reports, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Indian software engineer shot at in South AfricaJuly 7th, 2009 WARANGAL - An Indian software engineer from Andhra Pradesh was shot at by unidentified assailants in Johannesburg in South Africa. B Kiran, who was working in South Africa for the past two years, was attacked last Thursday when while returning from work.
Java Framework Struts is Dead; Long Live Struts!November 29th, 2005 With the merger of WebWork and Struts now it is crystal clear that our beloved (not to speak bad about the dead) java web framework is no more with us. It's parts will however be salvaged and added to WebWork.
10 killed as boat sinks in Indonesia's Java SeaDecember 28th, 2008 JAKARTA - At least 10 people were killed, 17 rescued and an unspecified number reported missing after a small boat capsized on the sea off Indonesia's main island of Java Monday morning, officials said. The accident took place at about 10 a.m.
Intelligence agencies developing 'Terrorist Facebook' to deal with al-Qa'idaAugust 19th, 2009 LONDON - Intelligence agencies are building up a Facebook-style databank of international terrorists in order to sift through it with complex computer programs aimed at identifying key figures and predicting terrorist attacks before they happen. According to The Independent, the aim is to amass huge quantities of intelligence data on people - no matter how obscure or irrelevant - and feed it into computers that are programmed to make associations and connections that would otherwise be missed by human agents, scientists said.
Bali bombing mastermind killed in police raidSeptember 17th, 2009 JAKARTA - Terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top was killed in a police raid on a militant hideout in Central Java on Thursday, Indonesian police have officially confirmed. The 41-year-old Malaysian-born extremist was one of four militants killed in the raid near Solo, national police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters.