A new study has revealed that spending 30 minutes in garden daily (five days a week) can lessen impotency risk by 38 percent.

This study was conducted by scientists of the Vienna Faculty of Medicine.

The study published in the journal ‘European Urology’ claimed that other forms of moderate exercise, such as dancing or jogging can also act as “natural” Viagra.

Men who do sports regularly can halve their chance of impotence and poor bedroom performance.

In December 2008, Americans conducted 12.7 billion core searches, up 3% from November 2008, says ComScore, Inc., the leader in evaluating the digital world, in its today released monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace.

According to U.S. Core Search Rankings, Google Sites topped the U.S. core search market during the last month (December 2008) with 63.5 percent of the searches conducted, unchanged from November, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.5%), Microsoft Sites (8.3%), Ask Network (3.9%) and AOL LLC (3.8%).

Here is good news for home buyers planning to take a loan of above Rs 20 lakh.

India’s top mortgage lender Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC), on Friday, has slashed housing loan rates for new loans by 50 basis points (bps) for a limited period.

Under the scheme, home loan clients can now avail loans between Rs 20-30 lakh at an annual interest rate of 9.75%, down from 11.25% earlier.

Moreover, the customers looking for loans above Rs 30 lakh would have to pay an annual interest rate of 10.75%.

Maytas Properties, the realty division of Maytas Infra, has decided to shut down its four arms including hospitality, warehousing, affordable housing and retirement communities.

It is also learnt that the above decision has also resulted in the company issuing “pink slips” to about 80% of the 500 strong staff even as Maytas Properties has ceased most of its projects.

The benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended sharply positive on Friday (Jan 16) on the back of sustained buying action witnessed in index pivotals.

The uptrend was powered by oil & gas stocks followed by power, metal, PSU and bank stocks. Telecom stocks surged higher on sustained buying support. Capital goods stocks rallied.

Auto, IT and FMCG stocks got well after staying quiet till a little past mid afternoon. Pharmaceutical and consumer durables stocks zoomed during late trade, while realty stocks dropped.

Panasonic, announced their three sub-$200 cameras on Friday, which they avoided doing at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Two of the cameras, which would provide a slim and compact build at a cheaper price than the company's high-end slim and compact FX-Series, have been included in the FS-series. As far as the third camera is concerned, it will be part of LS-series, which though would be heaviest of Panasonic's point-and-shoot line, but would be the cheapest. It has been learnt that the LS-series camera could be availed at a suggested retail price of just $119.95.