Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Assam Economy To Be Revived By December Quarter: Himanta Biswa Sarma

Sarma further added that the state government will come out with a special compensation package to assist those affected by the COVID-19 induced lockdown by the end of this year.

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BCCI Announces CRED As Official Partner For IPL 2020

The BCCI on Tuesday announced CRED as an official partner for the upcoming edition of the IPL.

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Hero MotoCorp Domestic Sales Rose 7.5% in August

On a sequential basis, the company registered a sales growth of 13 per cent. Thecompany had sold 514,509 units inthe previous month i.e. July 2020.

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Sensex Rises Over 50 Points, Nifty Near 11,500 Amid Choppy Trade

Official data this week showed the country's gross domestic product contracted 23.9 per cent in the June quarter, its worst contraction on record.

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Portland chief: Violent protests come 'at increased cost'

Portland’s police chief has denounced protest vandalism this week in Oregon's largest city after people broke windows and set a fire inside the upscale apartment building where Mayor Ted Wheeler lives

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Today in History

Today in History Today is Wednesday, Sept. 2, the 246th day of 2020. There are 120 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 2, 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers. On this date: In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s forces occupied Atlanta. In 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair. In 1930, the first nonstop airplane flight from Europe to the U.S. was completed in 37 hours as Capt. Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte of France arrived in Valley Stream, New York, aboard their Breguet 19 biplane, which bore the symbol of a large question mark. In 1944, during World War II, Navy pilot Lt. (jg) George Herbert Walker Bush was shot down by Japanese forces as he completed a bombing run over the Bonin Islands. (Bush was rescued by the...

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Security Council to meet on post-COVID-19 security threats

The U.N. Security Council will hold a high-level summit during the annual meeting of world leaders at the General Assembly later this month to discuss security threats in the world after the COVID-19 pandemic ends

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3rd T20I: Mohammad Hafeez, Haider Ali Star As Pakistan Beat England

It was Pakistan's first victory in 66 days of being in a bio-secure bubble in England amid the coronavirus and meant they squared this three-match T20I series at 1-1.

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Petrol, Diesel Prices Unchanged On Wednesday

Petrol, Diesel Price: In Delhi, the price of petrol was constant atRs 82.08 anddiesel was untouched at Rs 73.56 per litre, according to Indian Oil Corporation.

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Sensex, Nifty Likely To Have A Subdued Opening

Asian shares were trading mostly higher, encouraged by buoyant U.S. moves that followed stronger-than-expected manufacturing indicators while the dollar emerged from its recent lows against the euro.

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Virtual learning in Miami-Dade halted by cyberattack, glitch

Officials say a cyberattack and a software glitch plagued Florida’s largest school district during the first two days of its virtual start to the school year

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UK man guilty of trying to smuggle generator from US to Iran

A U.K. citizen has pleaded guilty in Florida to federal charges related to violating an embargo and attempting to smuggle industrial equipment to Iran

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California inks deal for new system after COVID data backlog

California has inked a $15 million deal with a software company to develop a new COVID-19 tracking system

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