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Washington, June 17 : A new study has revealed that consumption of e-cigarettes is much less harmful than cigarettes, with alcohol being the most dangerous substance. Lawrence D. Phillips, a researcher from London School of Economics at a conference of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), presented the relative risks of different drugs at Advances in Decision Analysis and said that e-cigarettes should be classified as a device for fighting nicotine addiction.

Phillips also concluded it by saying that how people smoke due to addiction of nicotine but instead they end up dying.

Washington, June 17 : Angelina Jolie was banned from entering Sudan by visa authorities of the country recently.

According to Radar Online, the 39-year-old actress, who's a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, had arrived to attend a civil society event in the country's capital of Khartoum.

As per local media, Peter Tibber from the British embassy in Sudan, confirmed that the beauty was absence at the event.

Washington, June 17 : The iPhone maker, Apple has reportedly agreed to settle out of court with consumers who claimed that the company is conspiring to raise the price of e-books.

Attorney Steve Berman, who represented the plaintiffs, had argued that Apple should pay $840 million, or triple the amount he estimated the company gained from hiking ebook prices. The trial was set to go to court next month, The Verge reported.

However the terms of the settlement have not been made public.

The US Department of Justice sued Apple and five other publishers in April 2012, accusing them of working together illegally to raise e-book prices.

New Delhi, June 17 : Shraddha Kapoor has revealed that there are no heroes in her upcoming film' Ek Villain'.

The 'Aashiqui 2' star said, "There are no heroes in the film, as this film is about villains. And I am the one in the film who is between two grey shade characters".

Speaking about her character in the film, she added, "Aisha is the name of my character. She is full of life, happy girl who is always ready to help people. She wants everyone to laugh and be happy."

Washington, June 17 : Bochum's astronomers at the Ruhr-Universitat's (RUB's) observatory in Chile found out that high-mass stars are rarely solitary.

For several years, they observed 800 celestial objects that are up to one hundred times heavier than our Sun. More than 90 percent have turned out to be multiple systems.

These data support the theory that heavy stars are already formed as twins.

Even with the world's largest telescopes, binary stars cannot generally be distinguished as two discrete points.

New Delhi: Concerned over rising onion rates, the government on Tuesday imposed a minimum export price (MEP) of USD 300 per tonne on the kitchen staple to curb overseas sales and check retail prices.

Onion prices have risen to about Rs 25-30 per kg in the national capital from Rs 15-20 per kg a fortnight ago.

The MEP, which is the rate below which no exports are allowed, has been re-introduced barely three months after the previous government in March had abolished it.

Export of all onion varieties will be subject to MEP of USD 300 per tonne, commerce ministry said in a notification.