1. Loganathan, 51, a lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was felled by the gunman, his brother G V Palanivel told a TV channel from Tamil Nadu.

2. "The Embassy has learnt with great sorrow that apart from the Indian American Professor G V Loganathan, a first year student Minal Panchal is also among the victims," a senior official of the Embassy said.

3. Updated: Thursday, April 1', 2007 at 0'28 hours IST Chennai, April 1': The family members of Professor G V Loganathan, who was killed in the shooting spree at Virginia Tech University, left for the United States by a Chennai–Frankfurt–Washington Lufthansa flight in the early hours of the day for performing his last rites in the US.

4. The FBI boasted in a message to Congress in 2003 that "the use of the G–V in recent months has had a tremendous impact on the successful rapid response of FBIHQ and field personnel and equipment to the fast–moving investigations and crisis situations in New York, Washington and Afghanistan." In the fact sheet accompanying its 2007 budget request, the FBI stressed that the Gulfstream has flown "personnel to and from Iraq, and it is important to maintain the G–V to successfully carry out these crucial missions." The agency also said the jet had been used to bring surveillance equipment to agents working overseas, transport forensic evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan, and transport terrorism suspects.

5. New Delhi, Jun 26: Former Election Commissioner G V G Krishnamurthy figures in an American publication as "world‘s most distinguished individuals". New Jersey‘s "Who‘s who in the world" in its edition for 2007 has listed Krishnamurthy‘s profile documenting the lives of the world‘s eminent persons for their reference audience, said a release from All India Conference of Intellectuals quoting a communication from the American publishers.