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Two wheeler manufacturer Bajaj Auto has registered a 63% growth in June sales, which stood at 315,422 units.

The company said that the sales were affected owing to limited production facilities.

Bajaja Auto sold 282,808 motorcycles during the last month as compared to 167,945, contributing 68 per cent growth over last year.

The company's three wheelers sales remained up by 32% in the month under review at 32,614 vehicles as against 24,731 units in June 2009.

A new research has said that tea tree oil may be used in future as a quick, secure, economical and effectual cure for non-melanoma skin cancers.

A three-year research conducted at The University of Western Australia's Tea Tree Oil Research Group discovered that solid tumours grown under the skin in mice and treated with a tea tree oil formulation slows down tumour development and tumour regresses within a day of treatment.

The tumours cannot be noticed within three days.

Indian equities were trading on a dull note in the last trading session of the week, with no major buying activity happening among frontliners or broader markets.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which belled the day at 17,523.47, stood at 17,531.01, up 21.68 points (0.12%) as against its last closure at 17,509.33.

At the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the broad-based Nifty was trading 0.09% up at 5,256.3 as compared to its last closure at 5,251.4.

A new research has discovered that those who consume a diet high in fructose, in the form of added sugar, are more prone to the risk of developing high blood pressure, or hypertension.

The findings of the research said that cutting back on foods and beverages containing lots of fructose (sugar) might lessen one's risk of developing high blood pressure.

Hypertension is the most common chronic condition in developed nations and a major risk factor for heart and kidney problems.

Researchers said that pesticides put pregnant females at greater risk of having kids with cancer.

Boffins said that researches have shown that pesticide exposure either before conception or during gestation period raises the chance of cancer in childhood.

Professor Andrew Watterson of Stirling University, one of the authors, advised that as well as putting kids at risk, the pesticides posed a threat to agriculturists.

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has become the member of Twitter family on 1st July and the perfectionist has over 70000 followers within just two days.

But Aamir is following only one account, that of Big B, who convinced him to join the micro blogging site.

Thus far, the actor has posted around 12 tweets.

At first, Aamir used his Samsung handset to update his Twitter account. Now, following Amitabh, he has opted to tweet with Androids. The FIFA matches and movies are the topics of the majority of his tweets.