Monday, 17 August 2020

Official: Inmates attacked 6 officers at California prison

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says inmates attacked six correctional officers Sunday afternoon, sending them to the hospital

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"He Called And I Ran": Kohli Recalls Best On-Field Moments With Dhoni

Virat Kohli posted a video on social media showing the "mutual trust, respect and understanding" that he shared with MS Dhoni.

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Sunday, 16 August 2020

RIL In Talks To Buy Online Furniture Retail, Milk Delivery Startups: Report

Representatives at Reliance, Urban Ladder and Milkbasket did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.

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MCX To Launch The Country's First Bullion Index On August 24

"MCX iCOMDEX Bullion Index Futures contracts, expiring September, October and November, will be available for trading with effect from August 24," MCX said.

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Here's How Much You Pay For Fuel Today

On Monday, the price of benchmark Brent crude was last seen trading at $45.14 per barrel, and natural gas at $2.36 per MMBtu ormetric million British thermal unit.

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Rupee Edges Higher To 74.80 Against Dollar

At Friday's closing level of 74.90, the rupee has recovered 2.72 per cent against the US currency since an all-time low of 76.91 registered in April, but is still down 4.85 per cent so far this year.

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California's Golden State Killer faces life prison sentence

Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., a former police officer, faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for 13 rape-related charges and 13 murder counts stemming from crimes in the 1970s and 1980s across six California counties

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Victims tell of trauma, healing in Golden State Killer case

Nearly three-dozen victims or survivors plan to tell their stories before the man known as the Golden State Killer is formally sentenced to life in prison

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Suresh Raina Conveyed Retirement Decision To BCCI Day After Going Public

BCCI said that Suresh Raina officially communicated his retirement on August 16, one day after announcing it in public via social media.

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Wipro Completes Acquisition Of Brazilian Firm; Stock Gains Nearly 2%

Wipro had announced in July that it had signed an agreement to acquire the Brazilian IT firm IVIA Servios de lnformitica Ltda for $22.4 million (about Rs 169 crore).

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Sensex Drops Over 350 Points From Day's High Amid Choppy Trade

Government data released on Friday evening showed the country's trade deficit in goods stood at $4.83 billion in July, after its first trade surplus in over 18 years in the previous month.

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Sensex Rises Over 200 Points, Nifty Tops 11,200 Amid Gains Across Sectors

Government data released on Friday evening showed the country's trade deficit in goods stood at $4.83 billion in July, after its first trade surplus in over 18 years in the previous month.

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Today in History

Today in History Today is Monday, Aug. 17, the 230th day of 2020. There are 136 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 17, 2017, a van plowed through pedestrians along a packed promenade in the Spanish city of Barcelona, killing 13 people and injuring 120. (A 14th victim died later from injuries.) Another man was stabbed to death in a carjacking that night as the van driver made his getaway, and a woman died early the next day in a vehicle-and-knife attack in a nearby coastal town. (Six suspects in the attack were shot dead by police, two more died when a bomb workshop exploded.) On this date: In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, 31, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who’d maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.) In 1960, the newly renamed Beatles (formerly the Silver Beetles) began their first gig in...

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