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Mumbai: IDBI Ltd has slashed the rates of interest on fixed home loans by around 100 basis points that will be effective from September 1.

London, Sept 19 : A school in Hartford, UK, has set a record of sorts by having 20 sets of twins on its roll.
 
And the Grange School, which achieved that distinction when four new pairs enrolled this month, says it has so much experience teaching twins that it now specialises in looking after them.
 
Having 20 pairs of twins means that one in 28 students of the 1,140-strong school is a twin.
 

Lahore, Sept 19: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has confirmed its team’s participation in the Champions Trophy after reports were making the rounds that it may skip the tournament as it has been shifted from Pakistan on security grounds.

PHF Secretary Khalid Mahmood has said that Pakistan would take part in the tournament despite the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH) decision to hold it in some other country.

Washington, Sep 19: Bumper pads meant to prevent babies from bumping or trapping their heads against the hard bars of a crib, can actually increase the risk of accidental death or injury to an infant, a study says.

According to paediatric researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the hazards of using crib bumper pads outweigh their benefits.

Washington, Sept 19 (ANI): Angelina Jolie insists all those reports about her bedding dozens of men are untrue, and reveals that she has only slept with four men.

The ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’ star tells Britain’s Cosmopolitan magazine that she is stunned whenever she is labelled a ‘man-eater’, for she has never been sexually promiscuous.

Washington, September 19: A new study on mice by an Emory-led team of scientists has found an important way by which chronic viral infections escape the immune response.

Chronic infections are able to suppress the immune T-cell response over time, whereby it poses one of the biggest challenges to treating infectious diseases and developing preventive vaccines.