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New Delhi-based Fortis group is ready to purchase stakes in Chennai-based Malar Hospitals Ltd.

The group has signed up an agreement with the Chennai-based Malar Hospitals promoters’ to buy 28 per cent of the holdings through International Hospital Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortis Healthcare Ltd (FHL) - and Oscar Investments Ltd.

Fortis will also make an open public offer to take over 20 per cent stake from the public. The transaction will mount Fortis’ entry into south India.

After fluttering at the peak for a number of days, yesterday, the U.S. crude oil prices closed above $80 per barrel for the first time.

For next month delivery, sweet crude added up 18 cents to close at $80.09 per barrel at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).

The price had hit $80.15 during the session and $80.20 during the earlier electronic trading. But, it was the first closing in what one investor called unchartered territory.

Washington: Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria has dismissed reports suggesting football ace David Beckham and Robbie Williams will be going gay for an episode of her hit show.

Longoria, who plays Gabrielle Solis on the popular show, asserted that even she was taken in by the reports and that urged her to speak to Beckham's wife Victoria about it.

Posh, who was present on the set of the show to film an upcoming episode, was approached by Longoria asking if the reports were true.

London, Sept 14 (ANI): An overweight mother speeds up her child’s path to obesity, a new study has found.

And, this is especially true if you are European, the study further reports.

The study’s findings are based on a research that involved 571 New Zealand children of European heritage.

As a part of the study, researchers monitored the children from the time of their birth till they turned seven.

Washington: Ever since Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria got married to basketball player Tony Parkeron, she has started hating kissing her co-stars.

The actress asserted that she was never comfortable locking lips with anyone other than boyfriends and husbands, and the feeling has only gotten worse after she and Parker wed.

Washington, Sept 14: Cosmologists from Durham University, England, have provided new insights into the way the first stars were formed at the start of the Universe, some 13 billion years ago.

The groundbreaking study states that the formation of the first stars depends crucially on the nature of ‘dark matter’, the strange material that makes up most of the mass in the universe.