Mark Wood Pulls Out Of IPL 2021 Player Auction: Report

IPL 2021: The franchises were informed at a briefing in Chennai on Wednesday that Mark Wood had decided to pull out of the auction in order to spend time with his family at home.

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Today in History

Today in History Today is Thursday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2021. There are 316 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 18, 1970, the “Chicago Seven” defendants were found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968 (those convictions were later reversed). On this date: In 1546, Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, died in Eisleben. In 1564, artist Michelangelo died in Rome. In 1930, photographic evidence of Pluto (now designated a “dwarf planet”) was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 1943, Madame Chiang Kai-shek (chang ky-shehk), wife of the Chinese leader, addressed members of the Senate and then the House, becoming the first Chinese national to address both houses of the U.S. Congress. In 1960, the 8th Winter Olympic Games were formally opened in Squaw Valley, California,...

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Power outages linger for millions as another icy storm looms

Millions of Americans endured another frigid day without electricity or heat in the aftermath of a deadly winter storm

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Bharti Airtel Trades Flat After Buying Back Stake From Warburg Pincus

Bharti Airtel will issue around 3.647 crore shares at a price of Rs 600 per share, with Rs 1,037.8 crore paid in cash; valuing the DTH arm at around Rs 15,630 crore

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Sensex, Nifty Open Flat; Reliance Industries, SBI Outperform

Six of 11 sector gauges compiled by the National Stock Exchange were trading lower led by the Nifty Private Bank index's 0.6 per cent fall

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Sensex, Nifty Set To Open Higher As Indicated By SGX Nifty

Indian equity benchmarks are set to open higher in trade on Thursday as indicated by the Nifty futures traded on Singapore Exchange

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Petrol, Diesel Prices At New Highs; Petrol Nears Rs 90 In Delhi

In Delhi, the price of petrol was hiked by 34 paise to Rs 89.88 per litre and dieselwas increased by 32 paise to Rs 80.27 per litre, according to Indian Oil Corporation

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Stocks To Watch: Bharti Airtel, Phillips Carbon Black, GAIL India

Bharti Airtel will acquire 20 per cent stake in its DTH arm Bharti Telemedia from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus for about Rs 3,126 crore

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Thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles being rescued in Texas

People have taken thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles to a convention center in South Texas in hopes of saving them during the unusually chilly weather

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Burned firefighter leaves California hospital to cheers

A firefighter who barely survived being overrun by flames while battling a Southern California wildfire last October has been released from a hospital to cheers

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Insurers question claims process in Boy Scouts bankruptcy

The judge presiding over the Boys Scout of America bankruptcy is weighing a request to allow insurance companies to serve document requests on a sampling of 1,400 people who have filed sexual abuse claims

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Fugitive who shot Georgia deputy gets 25 years in prison

A Texas fugitive who shot a Georgia deputy during a traffic stop has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 25 years in prison

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Judge urges probe of possible misconduct by NY prosecutors

A federal judge has urged the Justice Department to open an internal probe into possible misconduct by a team of high-profile prosecutors in New York for withholding key evidence against an Iranian businessman charged with breaking U.S. sanctions

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