Today, Union Textile Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, denied reducing Minimum Support Price (MSP) of cotton, in a direct reply to the agitating ginners across the country. With the aim to pitch for rationalization of cotton MSP, nearly 4,000 ginners in India have launched a two-day strike.

At a press conference held in Ahmedabad, Vaghela said, “Ginners reaped the rich benefits of higher cotton prices last year. Now let the farmers earn higher returns this year.”

On Monday, Union Defence Minister A K Antony informed that within a few years, the Indian Navy will be equipped with the most modern technology and thus would become capable of meeting challenges in the Indian ocean and other far-flung areas better than so called advanced nations.

While dedicating to the nation 'Abhinavam', the new technology complex of the Naval Physical Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), Antony said, “The Indian Navy can face challenges better than the so called advanced nations.”

A unique way of saving electricity when charging an iPod has been discovered by Owen Louis, 21, by using an onion soaked in energy drink.

Louis, who is also a great music fan, evidently was worried since his Mp3 player was using quite a lot of electricity; so the Portsmouth resident decided to utilize vegetables in order to power up his device.  

The technique Louis used consisted of boring two holes in an onion, soaking it in an energy drink and sticking a USB cable into it. The method enabled him to charge his iPod for an hour.

A new research that used robotic lizards has claimed that in order to gain attention in noisy environments, lizards actually do “Push-ups.”

The scientists were immensely helped by the robots, designed to mimic the appearance and body language of live anole lizards, to confirm a long held theory that animals take the help of grand gestures like lizard push-ups and loud noises in order to attract the attention of other members of their species in noisy environments.

Mumbai, Nov. 27: Maharashtra Police and Indian Army personnel launched a massive manhunt and a firefight early on Thursday morning against terrorists responsible for planned and synchronized serial bomb blasts across Mumbai late on Wednesday night that left at least 78 people killed, including a foreign tourist and a top counter-terror officer.

Police said that about 250 others were injured in the midnight attacks that took place in the heart of the country’s financial capital.

New York  - Instead of blowing their money in the New York Stock Exchange, Americans can now invest in the careers of models in the hope that they will someday become a top star on the catwalk.