The acquisition is Warren Buffett’s biggest in four years, putting to use some of Berkshire’s $137 billion cash pile. There has been some investor anxiety lately about Mr. Buffett’s recent drought of deal-making. Buying the Dominion assets would more than double Berkshire’s market share of natural gas movement in the U.S., to 18 percent. On … Read more
The case comes as the election season is heating up, putting the Electoral College will once again be front and center in an increasingly polarized and volatile political atmosphere. In 2016, 10 of the 538 presidential electors went rogue, attempting to vote for someone other than their pledged candidate. In all, 32 states and the … Read more
(CNN) — Austria’s flagship airline is replacing one of its flights with a more frequent train service, in order to meet the environmental criteria of its recent government bailout. The company will no longer fly between capital city Vienna and Salzburg, operating a rail service instead. As part of its recent €600 million ($680m) government … Read more
The findings show that 95% of Spain’s population remains susceptible to the virus. Herd immunity is achieved when enough of a population has become infected with a virus or bacteria — or vaccinated against it — to stop its circulation. The European Center for Disease Control told CNN that Spain’s research, on a nationwide representative … Read more
The biotechnology company Regeneron announced the late-stage clinical trials of REGN-COV2, its investigational double antibody cocktail for the treatment and prevention of Covid-19, in a news release on Monday. Specifically the release noted that a Phase 3 trial of the drug will assess its ability to prevent coronavirus infection among uninfected people who have had … Read more
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption “I hope that the people I’ve hurt will heal,” said the star. Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams has written a lengthy apology for his past behaviour, a year after he faced allegations of sexual misconduct. “There are no words to express how bad I feel about the ways I’ve mistreated people … Read more
Delhi’s coronavirus tally on Monday breached the one lakh-mark as the city recorded 1,379 fresh cases of the virus. The death toll due to Covid-19 mounted to 3,115. Delhi government’s Monday bulletin said that the total number of cases in the national capital has mounted to 1,00,823. However, of the total over one lakh cases, … Read more
Speaking at a session of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust on Wednesday, Harry said people must “acknowledge the past,” even when doing so is uncomfortable. “When you look across the Commonwealth, there is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past,” he said. “So many people have done such an incredible job … Read more
The Home Ministry has approved the decision of the University Grants Commission to conduct exams, final year exams are compulsory for all universities. UGC guidelines 2020 released with Home Ministry approval: All universities have to conduct final semester exams (Photo: PTI) University Grants Commission guidelines 2020: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has given a … Read more
President Trump mounted an explicit defense of the Confederate flag on Monday, suggesting that NASCAR had made a mistake in banning it from its auto racing events, while falsely accusing a top Black driver, Bubba Wallace, of perpetrating a hoax involving a noose found in his garage. Mr. Trump’s reference to the Confederate flag, and … Read more