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2006 Malegaon blasts: Aseemanand, Sadhvi Pragya’s names missing from NIA chargesheet

Antony is my guru, Rahul Gandhi says

On the heels of her recent single release of “Cocoa Butter”, soul songstress India.Arie is back with new tunes. After a four-year hiatus, the multi-talented singer-songwriter will be releasing her fifth studio album entitled “SongVersation”. The newly released artwork for the album showcases India wearing a complete outfit of blush pink in a commanding, yet friendly stance with arms open. “SongVersation” is set to release June 25th. Are you feeling the album cover? Let us know in the comment section!

American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC): Current price $28.29 On Wednesday, American Capital Energy & Infrastructure reported that it has expanded its global investment team with two new members, Director of  Africa  Investments Lisa Pinsley, and Senior Associate Pol Mijares. Also, the firm named Peter Bird and Venu Nambiar as Senior Advisors. The team will concentrate on sourcing investments opportunities in worldwide energy infrastructure assets, and also in product and service firms in the power and energy sectors. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL): Current price $34.12 Oracle Corporation’s majority-owned Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd, intends to raise up to 10 billion rupees, or $180.9 million, via a share sale to institutional investors. The latter plans to lower its stake in the firm by 5.3 percent, by divesting as much as 4.4 million shares to satisfy the regulatory condition of having a minimum of 25 percent public shareholding for firms listed in India. It has fixed the floor price at 2,275 rupees per share for the issue, which will be initiated on Wednesday. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! MannKind Corp. (NASDAQ:MNKD): Current price $6.23 Takeover chatter is growing as a huge call trade tops Wednesday’s option activity in biopharmaceutical firm MannKind. According to optionMONSTER systems,  a trader purchased 29,864 January 5 calls for the ask price of $1.98 in volume below prior open interest of over 111,000. Then seconds later, the trader sold an equal number of January 9 calls for the bid price of 83 cents against open interest of only 1,380 at that strike, clearly indicating new activity. Shares are up nearly 15 percent after peaking at $6.54 Wednesday morning, marking its highest level since the stock was cut in half in January of 2011. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Don’t Miss: Bernanke’s Testimony: Is Congress Failing the Economic Recovery? Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

CBI files chargesheet aginst Madhu Koda in disproportionate assets case

At UPA anniversary bash, Sonia, PM dispel talk of rift

by Prem K. Mony, Jayanna Krishnamurthy, Annamma Thomas, Kiruba Sankar, B. M. Ramesh, Stephen Moses, James Blanchard, Lisa Avery Background As part of efforts to reduce maternal deaths in Karnataka state, India, there has been a concerted effort to increase institutional deliveries. However, little is known about the quality of care in these healthcare facilities. We investigated the availability and distribution of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services in eight northern districts of Karnataka state in south India. Methods & Findings We undertook a cross-sectional study of 444 government and 422 private health facilities, functional 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week. EmOC availability and distribution were evaluated for 8 districts and 42 taluks (sub-districts) during the year 2010, based on a combination of self-reporting, record review and direct observation. Overall, the availability of EmOC services at the sub-state level [EmOC?=?5.9/500,000; comprehensive EmOC (CEmOC)?=?4.5/500,000 and basic EmOC (BEmOC)?=?1.4/500,000] was seen to meet the benchmark. These services however were largely located in the private sector (90% of CEmOC and 70% of BemOC facilities). Thirty six percent of private facilities and six percent of government facilities were EmOC centres. Although half of eight districts had a sufficient number of EmOC facilities and all eight districts had a sufficient number of CEmOC facilities, only two-fifths of the 42 taluks had a sufficient number of EmOC facilities. With the private facilities being largely located in select towns only, the ‘non-headquarter’ taluks and ‘backward’ taluks suffered from a marked lack of coverage of these services. Spatial mapping further helped identify the clustering of a large number of contiguous taluks without adequate government EmOC facilities in northeastern Karnataka. Conclusions In conclusion, disaggregating information on emergency obstetric care service availability at district and subdistrict levels is critical for health policy and planning in the Indian setting. Reducing maternal deaths will require greater attention by the government in addressing inequities in the distribution of emergency obstetric care services.

Sanjay Dutt moved to Pune jail in early morning operation

Below, take a look at some of the TED speakers and Fellows who are cropping up in the news this week. Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationshipLybrido, a drug to treat women with low libido, is in clinical trials and could be presented to the FDA for review as early as this summer. In The New York Times Magazine‘s look at this new drug, TED speaker Esther Perel is asked about the conundrum of desire for women in long-term relationships. “Many couples confuse love with merging,” she says. “This mix-up is a bad omen for sex. To sustain élan toward the other, there must be a synapse to cross. Eroticism requires distance.” Watch Perel’s talk “The secret to desire” » Philosopher Dan Dennett has a great new book, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking. Read an excerpt containing his “seven tools for thinking, or check out any of his four TED Talks » Last week, NASA announced the shutdown of the Kepler spacecraft mission. On the TED Fellows blog, Lucianne Walkowicz – an astronomer who worked on the project – shares her thoughts on its end. Watch her talk “Finding planets around other stars” » Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer The new Wired takes a detailed look at Henry Markram’s years-long campaign to build a supercomputer replica of the human brain — a plan he shared early on at TEDGlobal, in fact. The piece begins, “Even by the standards of the TED Conference, Henry Markram’s 2009 TEDGlobal talk was a mind-bender. He took the stage of the Oxford Playhouse, clad in the requisite dress shirt and blue jeans, and announced a plan that—if it panned out—would deliver a fully sentient hologram within a decade.” And it gets weirder. Watch his 2009 talk » CERN physicists share with the TED-Ed blog what it was like to have their words — and sometimes their personas — animated in five TED-Ed videos that boil down concepts in particle physics into understandable terms. Watch these five animated lessons » Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.Related to Rose George’s talk, “Let’s talk crap. Seriously”: On Monday, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, 184 couples wed in a mass ceremony — before which the husband-to-be had to prove he had a toilet or would build one within the month. As a reward, The Wall Street Journal reports, “the state covers the costs of the wedding and gifts for the groom’s family, which are traditionally provided by the bride’s parents.” Watch George’s talk » Finally, fashion website Refinery 29 admits that Meg Jay’s talk “Why 30 is not the new 20” got their “entire office buzzing.” Watch the talk »

1993 Mumbai blasts: Zaibunisa Kazi's condition being monitored