Saturday, 24 July 2021

Shikhar Dhawan Backs Suryakumar Yadav To Shine Across Formats

Sri Lanka vs India: Shikhar Dhawan lauded Suryakumar Yadav's batting and backed him to shine across three formats.

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State Bank Of India Branch Inaugurated At Rashtrapati Bhavan

President Ram Nath Kovind is the first customer of the SBI branch and was handed over his passbook today, soon after opening his account, according to a statement by the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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Groups urge state to protect last wild Atlantic salmon in US

A new push to protect the final remaining wild Atlantic salmon in the U.S. is unlikely to land the fish on a key state endangered list

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Wildfires blasting through West draw states to lend support

Wildfires are blasting through the West draw states to lend support.

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Sri Lanka Squad Hits Back At Criticism With Social Media Boycott

Sri Lanka head coach Mickey Arthur ordered the national squad to stay off from social media after fans launched a campaign to boycott players following the ODI series defeat against India.

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Prithvi Shaw, Suryakumar Yadav To Join India Test Squad In UK: Report

England vs India: With Shubman Gill ruled out and Ajinkya Rahane picking up a hamstring injury, Prithvi Shaw and Suryakumar Yadav are set to fly to the UK to join India's Test squad.

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Need To Focus On Wealth Creation At Bottom Of Pyramid: Mukesh Ambani

The chairman of India's largest company by market value Reliance Industries Ltd said bold economic reforms helped GDP of $ 266 billion in 1991 grow by over ten times.

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Windies-Australia 2nd ODI To Resume On Saturday After No New Covid Cases

The 2nd ODI between West Indies and Australia was suspended after the toss, due to a positive COVID-19 test result from a non-playing member of the West Indies squad.

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Vodafone Plans To Launch Additional Share Buy-Back Programmes: Report

The mobile and broadband operator, which has roped in Goldman Sachs as principal of the programme, said the buy-backs will start on July 26 and end by Nov. 17.

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Friday, 23 July 2021

Today in History

Today in History Today is Saturday, July 24, the 205th day of 2021. There are 160 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon — splashed down safely in the Pacific. On this date: On July 24, 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate by Scottish nobles in favor of her infant son James, who became King of Scotland at the age of one. In 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah. In 1858, Republican senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln formally challenged Democrat Stephen A. Douglas to a series of political debates; the result was seven face-to-face encounters. In 1862, Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, died at age 79 in Kinderhook, New York, the town where he was born in 1782. In 1866, Tennessee became the first state...

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Louisiana auxiliary deputy, 82, killed working at crash site

Authorities say a Louisiana auxiliary sheriff's deputy has died after his patrol vehicle was hit from behind while working near the scene of an earlier crash

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UN adopts first resolution on vision, aims to help 1 billion

The U.N. General Assembly has approved its first-ever resolution on vision

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Woman convicted in kidnapping gets re-sentencing hearing

A woman convicted in the 1987 kidnapping and death of a northern Illinois businessman has been granted a re-sentencing hearing by the state’s appellate court

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