Today in History

Today in History Today is Tuesday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2021. There are 311 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 23, 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas. On this date: In 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, following word of a possible assassination plot in Baltimore. In 1870, Mississippi was readmitted to the Union. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an agreement with Cuba to lease the area around Guantanamo Bay to the United States. In 1942, the first shelling of the U.S. mainland during World War II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, causing little damage. In 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American flags (the second flag-raising was captured in the iconic Associated Press photograph.) In 1954, the first mass inoculation of...

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"Life's Most Beautiful Gift": T Natarajan Shares Photo With Daughter

T Natarajan shared a picture with his family as his daughter turned four months old.

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Reliance Industries Gains Over 1% On Finalising Demerger

Reliance Industries expects to get the necessary approvals to hive off its oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business into a separate unit by the second quarter of the next fiscal year

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Sensex, Nifty Edge Higher Led By Gains In Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank

The Sensex rose over 350 points and Nifty 50 index moved above its important psychological level of 14,750.

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Heranba Industries' Rs 625 Crore IPO Opens For Bidding Today

Heranba Industries IPO comprises a fresh issue of Rs 60 crore and an offer for sale of Rs 565.2 crore; the retail investors can bid for a minimum one lot of 23 shares and in multiples thereof,...

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Sensex, Nifty Set To Open Higher; Reliance, Bharat Forge In Focus

Bharat Forge will be in focus as the company signed an agreement with Paramount Group to manufacture armoured vehicles in India.

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India's Inflation Target May Need To Be Refined: Chief Economic Adviser

The current monetary policy framework, signed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government with the Reserve Bank of India in 2015, expires next month

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Stocks To Watch: Reliance Industries, Bharat Forge, Zuari Agro Chemicals

Reliance Industries expects to get the necessary approvals to hive off its oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business into a separate unit by the second quarter of the next fiscal year

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Reliance Expects Approvals To Hive Off Oil-To-Chemicals Unit By Q2

Reliance, owned by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, will retain full control of the business post-restructuring, the company said in the presentation.

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Petrol, Diesel Prices Touch Record Highs After 2-Day Pause

In Delhi, the price of petrol was hiked by 35 paise to Rs 90.93 per litre and diesel was increased by an equal amount to Rs 81.32 per litre, according to Indian Oil Corporation

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Haiti's president: despite coup attempts he backs democracy

Haiti’s president is blaming powerful oligarchs for seven attempts in his four-year term to overthrow the Caribbean nation's democratic system, most recently an attempted coup on Feb. 7, but said he remains committed to democracy

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Police: Dead horses, foals found on North Dakota man's farm

A Morth Dakota man accused of feeding moldy hay and denying water to numerous horses that wound up dead or sick has been charged with felony animal cruelty

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US reopens Texas surge facility to hold immigrant teenagers

President Joe Biden’s administration has reopened a tent facility to house up to 700 immigrant teenagers after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied by a parent, a sign of growing worries about how children are treated in government custody

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