Actor Jeff Conaway dies at 60

Last Updated: Saturday, May 28, 2011, 11:09

American actor Jeff Conaway, best known for his roles in the 1970s hit television series "Taxi" and blockbuster film "Grease," died Friday morning. He was 60, local celebrity websites reported.

Bodies of 4 AP students who died in mishap in US brought home

Last Updated: Friday, May 13, 2011, 00:50

All of them were engineering graduates from Andhra and were pursuing MS in Missouri University of Science and Tech. A car in which the 4 were travelling was hit by a pick-up van on the Missouri Highway 42 near Iberia on May 8.

Political leaders who died in air crashes

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 16:22

Arunachal Pradesh CM Dorjee Khandu is not the only leader to have met a tragic end in an air crash.

Charlie Sheen ‘nearly died 4 times from drug overdoses’

Last Updated: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 12:35

Charlie Sheen’s pals have claimed that the actor nearly ‘died’ four times in five months from drug overdoses.

MJ ‘died long before he reached hospital’

Last Updated: Saturday, January 8, 2011, 12:31

A doctor has told a court that MJ died long before he reached hospital.

When Robin Gibb almost died

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 20:41

Gibb almost lost his life due to a blocked intestine.

Tony Curtis ‘died of lung problems caused by smoking’

Last Updated: Friday, October 1, 2010, 12:27

The widow of silver screen legend Tony Curtis, Jill, has opened up about her husband’s death.

50 persons had died in 2008 Kandhamal violence

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 19:46

The riots in Orissa`s Kandhamal district in 2008 had claimed a total of 50 lives, which was 12 more than the earlier estimate.

Body of AP student who died in US to be brought home this week

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 00:28

The parents of the Indian student from Visakhapatnam, who died in the US in a water rafting accident, are hoping to receive his body later this week.

Rs 5 lakh compensation to family of youth who died in custody

Last Updated: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 17:48

The Madras High Court bench here has ordered Rs five lakh compensation to the family of a youth who died in police custody six years back.

27 foreign trainees died in Japan in FY 2009

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 16:04

Twenty-seven foreign nationals who came to Japan for employment under a government-authorised training program died in fiscal 2009, the second worst figure on record, government officials have said.