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According to recent research, consumption of Vitamin C on a daily basis may play a vital role to defend body from cancer.

Vitamin C is helpful for cancer sufferers and bounds the tumor growth.

This has been claimed by a new research published in the Cancer Research journal.

As per the new research conducted at the University of Otago, there is a significant growth with consumption of fruits and veggies having Vitamin C, which helps fighting with Cancer cells.

The study was headed by Professor Margreet Vissers.

Midlance, a US-based IT infrastructure service provider, made announcement about the establishment of its new plant at Mumbai.

The new plant would be a delivery and sales center for Western Zone.

According to the company's release, it would cater to clients in Maharastra, Gujrat, Madhya Pradesh and Goa.

This is Mindlance's 5th office in the Indian market, the other being situated at Bangalore (2 offices), Gurgaon and Jaipur.

Swedish home appliance manufacturer Electrolux announced that strong demand in several markets comprising North America helped increase its second-quarter profits.

The company's net profit, excluding items affecting comparability, stood at 1.1 billion kronor ($148 million) as against 633 million kronor during the same period of 2009.

Sales during the three month period remained down by 1% to 27.3 billion kronor.

Official sources have revealed that shipbuilder and repairer Atlantic Marine looks set to a new future under BAE Systems' North American operations after the aerospace giant completed its acquisition of the shipyards for a cash price of $352 million.

BAE spokeswoman Stephanie Moncada told United Press International, "BAE Systems' desire to acquire Atlantic Marine is solely based on their excellent record of performance in the shipbuilding and repair industry over the past several years."

It has been reported that the number of U. S. bank failures increased to 96 this year when federal regulators shut down six banks in Florida, Michigan and South Carolina.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that the financial crisis that led to 140 bank failures last year has now begun to hurt smaller banks and regulators have been closing banks this year at nearly double the pace of 2009.

The six banks closed Friday will cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s deposit insurance fund about $334.8 million.

"Keep politics out of art and culture", says Pakistani pop singer Ali Zafar, who arrived in Mumbai this month. He would like nothing better than to move to Mumbai and become a singing actor like Kishore Kumar. But would the current milieu of hostility allow him to make that move?