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For the ninth straight session, the benchmark Sensex maintained its upward rally by gaining more than 115 points in the early trading on the BSE today on funds buying.

The 30-share Sensex added another 115.46 points to 15,580.86 in first five minutes of trading as fund continued buying in heavy-weight stock.

Likewise, the wide-based NSE’s Nifty ascended by 28.25 points at 4507.50.

New Delhi, Sep 4: India's largest private airline Jet Airways plans to connect more cities within and outside the country and is acquiring 25 wide-bodied aircraft to fuel its international operations.

It has already established Brussels as its European hub for transcontinental flights. ''We'll soon be starting international flights from Amritsar, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore,'' said its chairman Naresh Goyal.

London, Sept 4 : A new study has given people another good reason to lose all that extra weight by finding that fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote the formation of certain cancer causing chemicals rather than preventing it.

As a part of their study the researchers set out to find the impact of fat and lipid) and vitamin C (ascorbic acid) on nitrite chemistry in the upper (proximal) stomach.

New York, Sep 4 : Scientists claim to have discovered the gene that influences a person's height and explains why some people are shorter.

U.S. researchers have discovered a gene, which keeps mice and fruit flies lean that might offer a means to put a stop to obesity and diabetes in people.

In the journal Cell Metabolism, the researchers reported that the gene, detected over 50 years ago in fruit flies, makes mice fat when tweaked in one direction and thin when manipulated in a different way.