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A new range of three handsets are publicized by Videocon, namely; Qruz V1425, V1424 and V1430.

All the three phones have separate highlighting features like Qruz V1425 is a 100W PMPO Music Output phone with large speakers. It will be a treat for music lovers who love to hear music with incredible loud speakers. The device is loaded with extra large boom speaker with a back cover mesh grill, a VGA camera, Bluetooth, 1200 mAH battery, an MP3 player. This dual SIM phone possess 2 inch TFT screen with high resolution.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) advised that the energy crop Jatropha has seeds which can produce bio-diesel, which is less polluting than fossil diesel, and can be used to light lamps.

It can also be used as cooking fuel and thereby help in improving the financial conditions of the poor farmers, especially in the dry areas. The Jatropha curcas has a reasonably good growth in dry areas and on degraded soil.

Recently, in a virgin venture, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson sent out a message in the American Sign Language (ASL) to the deaf group from the International Space Station, in the form of a video.

Through this video, Tracy Caldwell Dyson has responded to a few questions about how she has been living and working on the space station and why she was engrossed in sign language in the first place.

According to the Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Praful Patel, our national carrier Air India is undergoing a strong recovery as is evident from its figures of the first quarter of this year. He said that there is no need for any job cuts or wage reduction since the growth plans involve making use of the existing manpower.

In the previous year, the airline got an equity infusion of Rs. 800 crore from the government and with the aim of qualifying for the second round worth Rs. 1200 crore maximum this year, the airline planned to give better performance.

It has been found in a recent research by New Zealand scientists that Vitamin C can help check the growth of cancer cells. The results of this research offer a simple way to both prevent and cure cancer.

It was found that vitamin C had a potential to reduce endometrial tumors in cancer patients and thereby limit the spread of the disease.

Earth absorbs trucks sized asteroids daily. But most of them are too big to get bent out of shape by the Earth's atmosphere.

The smallest asteroid that can harm the planet is about 30 meters [98 feet], but according to a NASA research, these huge asteroids have a chance of hitting the Earth once in every 200 years on an average.