Pune, July 25 : Several birds facing a difficult time due to absence of fully developed trees have been provided special tiny homes here at the Empress Botanical Garden by nature and bird lovers.

Artificial nests have been set up on trees by utilizing items like petrol cans, old letterboxes, plastic cans, wooden boxes and pots. These are firmly attached to support such as a tree or wall facing away from the heat of the sun and avoiding the usual direction of the strong wind or rain.

As the fuel crisis is increasing in the world, auto companies are thinking on the alternative to fuel by introducing cars which use alternate source of energy. TATA has also decided to introduce a car which operates on electricity. It is announced by chairman of tata group, Mr. Ratan Tata in the annual general meeting on Thursday.

TATA will launch electric car in Norway in current financial year and likely to introduce in other markets in the next financial year. Tata is also working on compressed car project with a company in France. This car would be totally environment friendly and free of pollution. Company is trying its best to in enter in the field of bio-fuel.  

ASUS, leading laptop manufacturer has launched Eee PC 1000H and Eee PC 904H in India, which are specifically aimed at consumers, who are looking forward to an extra PC for basic computing applications, listening to music, e-mailing and web browsing. This PC will also fulfill their desire of staying connected all the time.

These are the largest mini books launched in India so far. The Eee PC 1000H is a 10-inch notebook powered by Intel Atom processor and runs on Microsoft Windows XP operating system. The Eee PC 904H is 8.9-inch notebook based on Intel Mobile and Windows XP operating system.

Washington, July 25 : Scientists, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have found the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date: ten promising candidates thought to lie at a distance of 13 billion light-years.

By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with this observation.

Some of the newly found magnified objects are dimmer than the faintest ones seen in the legendary Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which is usually considered the deepest image of the Universe.

Washington, July 25 : Scientists have found black hydrothermal vent fields inside the Arctic Circle, which are farther north than anyone has ever seen before.

According to Marvin Lilley, a University of Washington oceanographer, dissolved sulfide minerals that solidify when vent water hits the icy cold of the deep sea have, over the years, accumulated around the vent field in what is one of the most massive hydrothermal sulfide deposits ever found on the seafloor.

The cluster of five vents – one towering nearly four stories in height – are venting water as hot as 570 F.

The vents are located at 73 degrees north on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway, which is more than 120 miles from the previous northernmost vents found during a 2005 expedition.

New Delhi, July 25 : About 253 million Chinese log on to the Internet regularly, making the country the largest web-user market, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said on Thursday.

The semi-official organization, regarded as the most authoritative source of statistics on the country''s Internet users, said China had overtaken the US in terms of the number of netizens in the first half of this year.

According to www. internetworldstats. com, the US had 218 million net-users till December 31, 2007, and China, 210 million. Based on the US'' growth trend, CNNIC estimated its number could have reached 230 million by the end of June.