Monday, 22 March 2021

Watch: Yuvraj Singh Gets Grand Reception After India Legends Win Title

India Legends beat Sri Lanka Legends by 14 runs in the final of the first Road Safety Word Series tournament.

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Sensex, Nifty Extend Losses On Rising Covid-19 Cases Dragged By Banks

Ten of 19 sector gauges compiled by the National Stock Exchange were trading lower led by the S&P BSE Bankex index's 1.4% decline.

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Amazon Gets Notice From Delhi High Court On Future Group-Reliance Deal

Amazon gets Delhi High Court notice on its challenge to Future Group-Reliance deal: news agency PTI

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Sunday, 21 March 2021

In India, Reliance Retail's Private Labels Spook Global Consumer Goods Makers

Products like Snac tac noodles and Yeah! colas are Reliance's private label brands - and billionaire Mr Ambani's not-so-secret weapons as he sets his sights on dominating the grocery market

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Financial Planning Divide Between Metros & Tier 2 Cities Widens Amid Covid-19: IPQ 3.0

Despite being the most financially protected, metros witnessed the biggest dip of 6% in security levels to 62% in IPQ 3.0 from an earlier 68% in IPQ 2.0.

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Indian Retail: A Nearly $900 Billion Market Led By Mom-And-Pop Stores

Most of India's grocery retail happens at kiranas - small- and mid-sized mom-and-pop outlets which account for 75-78 per cent of the consumer goods market, Ambit Capital estimates

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Powergrid To Acquire 74% Stake In Jaypee Powergrid; Stock Slips 2%

Powergrid Corporation has signed a share purchase agreement with Jaiprakash Power Ventures for acquisition of 74 per cent stake of Jaiprakash Power Ventures Limited in Jaypee Powergrid Limited

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Adani Green Energy Surges 5% On Bagging 300 MW Wind Power Project

Adani Green Energy's arm received a letter of award for 300 MW wind power project under a tender of Solar Energy Corporation of India

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Donations pour in for families of Atlanta shooting victims

Many people are contributing to GoFundMe pages for victims of the deadly Atlanta-area shootings

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An outsider's eye, an instant camera and America seen anew

Through the lens of an instant camera, through the eyes of an outsider, oft-neglected corners of America take on a very different cast. There is beauty in the swing ride at the Mississippi State Fair, seats suspended against an azure sky. There is humor in the giant statue of a hotdog alongside a highway in Lesage, West Virginia. There is desolation in a street scene in Cairo, Illinois. Photographer Maye-E Wong was part of an Associated Press team that drove the backroads during the run-up to the 2020 election. She illustrated stories about currents of racial tension that still ripple through towns that once expelled Black people, about how claims of a gentler political culture in Utah turned out to be far more complicated than the folklore, about people in coal country who were isolated from COVID-19 and race issues and so much more. But Wong, raised in Singapore, also brought along an Instax camera that made prints immediately, without the complications of her professional...

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Sensex Sheds Over 250 Points, Financial Stocks Trade Weak

Asian markets were holding their nerve on Monday as a plunge in the Turkish lira tested risk appetite, with stocks and bonds showing only a limited bid for safe-havens

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Jury selection in 3rd week for ex-cop's trial in Floyd death

Jury selection enters its third week Monday for a former Minneaoplis police officer charged in George Floyd's death

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Today in History

Today in History Today is Monday, March 22, the 81st day of 2021. There are 284 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On March 22, 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation. On this date: In 1820, U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington, D.C. In 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy. In 1894, hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1. In 1945, the Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. In 1976, principal photography for the first “Star Wars” movie, directed by George Lucas, began in Tunisia. In 1987, a garbage barge, carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, left Islip, New York, on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. (The barge was turned away by several states and three other countries until space was found back in...

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