At least 19 people, including 10 children, were killed in a fire cracker explosion in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan.

According to an Ovum report entitled “Market Share: 2Q08 Asia-Pacific ON”, ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”), a global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has recorded another sterling industry sales growth in the segment of Optical Networking (ON) during the second quarter.

The report shows that ZTE has the highest ON annual sales growth in Asia Pacific, with an 8% market share, the 4th highest in the region.

In a first of its kind, health insurer Aetna Inc. teaming up with Microsoft Corp. is offering clients medical record storage, allowing them to access the Internet-based vault, even if they change jobs or replace their health plan for another.  According to Wall Street Journal, beginning next month, all Aetna clients will be able to transfer information from their Aetna ‘personal health record’, an online repository of data, such as, claims, diagnoses, test results and prescriptions, to HealthVault.  Patients will be allowed to choose what they want to transfer between Aetna and Microsoft.

Anil Kapoor’s loving daughter Sonam Kapoor walked the ramp on day 2 of the five-day Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, and impressed the viewers with her alluring beauty.

Sonam swept the cheering crowd’s heart away when she walked the ramp for designer Tarun Tahiliani’s Levis collection at the spring-summer edition on Tuesday.

Tahilani said, “I have designed some exclusive collections for Levis and it will be a great experience to have Sonam walking the ramp for us.”

“I really loved it, had a great time,” Saawariya girl said.

Talking on the corporate greed issue on the second day of a campaign swing through Colorado, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that if elected, he and Barack Obama will attack corporate greed, and go after executives who reward themselves at the expense of employees.

Biden said that it was unfair that employees of failed companies lose their pensions, while the corporate executives get paid millions of dollars.

Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism revealed that Republican presidential nominee John McCain is getting more negative media coverage than his Democratic rival, Barack Obama - more than half the stories on McCain have been negative, compared to slightly less than one-third for Obama.