Bollywood Actress Anushka Sharma has been signed as the Brand Ambassador of Unicharm’s Sofy.
Unicharm is a Japanese FMCG company. Sofy is the brand of sanitary napkins from the company.

An MoU was signed b/w Mahindra & Mahindra and the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) for personal and commercial vehicle financing.

Well-known Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakaria suspended by Time Magazine and CNN as their columnist and show host after he confessed the charges of plagiarism. Zakaria was accused of writing copied text in his column the case for gun control in the August 20, 2012 issue of Time.

Conservative website NewsBusters found much similarity b/w Zarkaria’s and those written by historian Jill Lepore on the same issue, which appeared in the 23 April 2012 issue of The New Yorker.

Scientists discovered the origin of singing mice that use songs to communicate. The discovery can help identify genes that affect language in humans.
The singing mice are brown fur rodents, found in the tropical cloud forests in the mountains of Costa Rica.
These mice produce rapid-fire string of high pitched chirps called “Trills”, which are used mostly by males to attract mates.
They are different from birds as the mice generally stick to a song made up of only a single note.
The research is examining the genetic components and expression of gene FOXP2 which as per scientists influences song expression.

Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Vilasrao Dagadojirao Deshmukh (67) passed away.