In Britain, a new drink claims to offer the same effect as cigarette. This ‘Liquid Smoking’, a Fruit flavored herbal drink, is set to be launched in Britain.

If there is smoking ban, there is no need to worry for smokers as the liquid cigarette would also hit the Indian market as an alternative to cigarette.

The drink in a red and white can appears the same to Red and White cigarette packets and also claims to deliver the same feelings as cigarette.

“The product has the same effects as nicotine, but this you can drink in restaurants and even on flights,” said the Dutch supplier and manufacturer, United Drinks and Beauty Corporations.

US-based cell phone manufacturer Motorola has made announcement about the availability of its GPS-enabled MOTOMING A 1600 phone in the Indian market.

Packing a host of multimedia features, the newly launched handset offers navigational services and comes preloaded with landmarks of 30 cities.

The new model MOTOMING A 1600 features a transparent flip cover, 1 GB MicroSD card, an expandable memory capacity of up to 4 GB plus a 3.2 mega pixel camera.

The new phone also comes packed with some features of MapmyIndia.

Washington, Oct 29 : NASA''s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals on Mars, which suggests that the Red Planet may have hosted liquid water on its surface a billion years later than scientists believed, as recently as 2 billion years ago.

Researchers examining data from the orbiter''s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars found the minerals, in the form of hydrated silica, commonly known as opal.

The hydrated, or water-containing, mineral deposits are telltale signs of where and when water was present on ancient Mars.

Washington, Oct 29 : Though American singer Jessica Simpson’s movie “Major Movie Star” never opened in the United States, it has become a hit in Russia.

Seoul - Shares closed more than 3 per cent lower Wednesday on the Seoul stock exchange on rumors that South Korea may apply for bail-out funds by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The South Korean authorities denied the market rumors.

The benchmark Kospi index plunged 30.19 points, or 3.02 per cent, to close at 968.97, giving up earlier gains.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers 526 to 320.

The main index of the technology-heavy Kosdaq market declined 6.84 points to 265.59.

Tokyo - Sony Corp saw its net profit plunge 71.8 per cent in the second quarter as demand for consumer electronics slowed and the yen's value rose against other major currencies, the company said Wednesday.

The Japanese electronics company reported a net profit of 20.8 billion yen (219.84 million dollars) in the July-September quarter, compared to 73.7 billion yen a year before.

Operating profit also tumbled 90.1 per cent to 11 billion from 111.6 billion yen during the second quarter a year earlier, and sales dipped 0.5 per cent to 2.07 trillion yen from 2.08 trillion yen, the company said.

For the first half of the business year, which starts in April, Sony saw its net profit tumble 60.2 per cent year-on-year to 55.79 billion yen.