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Till now, Indians have only seen ministers like Shashi Tharoor, Businessmen like Anand Mahindra aggressively presented on the micro-blogging website - Twitter.

But under the recent move, Ford fiesta will become the first tweeting car to be present on the website. The AJ, a 2011 Ford Fiesta has recently become the first car that can tweet.

Fighting its falling market share in the Indian passenger car market, Maruti Suzuki has now decided to use the most effective weapon in its amour - The Alto to fight against the counterparts.

Notably, the company is planning to launch the K-Series Alto in the Indian market next month. While the new variant of the most-selling product in the Indian market will not only help the market leader to regain its lost market share but also will result in bringing additional units for the Alto.

Global IT majors IBM and Oracle are making plans to establish divisions at the technology park in Kerala.

According to a representative of the state IT department, both the companies had started exploratory discussions to establish shop at the technopark.

A novel clinical approach could make cancer operations more victorious.

Cancer surgery weakens a body''s immune system and stress hormones exacerbate the problem - leading to recurrence of cancer in patients.

Prof. Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu, head of Tel Aviv University's Department of Psychology is examining a cocktail of drugs to prevent the pessimistic effects of stress responses to colon cancer surgical procedure.

If victorious, it will assist the immune system preserve its vigour and thwart the occurrence of new tumors.

For the week ended July 10, the food price index grew by 12.47% as against 12.81% registered in same period of last year.

The index for fuel, power, light and lubricants group remained at their previous week's level of 14.27%, whilst it was minus 10.05% in the same week of 2009.

The twelve-monthly rate of inflation with regard to primary articles stood at 16.48% during the period under review as compared to 16.25% during the previous week and 6.45% during the same week of 2009.

After successfully hosting the Hero Honda FIH World Cup Hockey at the beginning of 2010, India is ready to host the FIH Champions Trophy (Men) by the coming year (2011).

The Executive Board of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has chosen India to be the location for hosting the trophy in 2011.

The FIH Champions Trophy is planned to be hosted in India in December next year.

During the same year, Olympic and World Champion Netherlands will host the Women's FIH Champions Trophy.

FIH will announce the dates for both the events later.