Arora said amid Covid-19, the poll commission norms have to be reviewed to ensure social distancing measures are maintained in the state with 72.9 million electors.
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TSX joins global selloff, but here’s where BMO’s Belski thinks you should park your funds
Canadian stocks cratered on Monday, amid a wider global selloff as fears over renewed pandemic lockdowns in Europe joined with uncertainties over further U.S stimulus and a deeply contested election marked by the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Read More
With TikTok deal, Walmart could gain 'a front row seat to the next generation of consumers'
Industry watchers say the big-box retailer's ties to TikTok could help it sharpen its approach to targeted ads, turn user data into business strategies and establish a relationship with the many teens and twenty-somethings.
Why GM may escape from Nikola’s wreckage unharmed
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What a difference two weeks makes.
On Sept. 8, General Motors’ stock bounced nearly 10% after the legacy carmaker announced it would take an 11% stake in Nikola Motor and provide technology to the buzzy hydrogen-electric truck startup.
It’s all been, to put it mildly, downhill from there.
Allegations of fraud by Nikola have since dismembered its stock, with GM’s promised stake losing nearly $1 billion in value since the deal’s announcement. GM’s own shares also cratered Monday after the announcement that Nikola’s founder and former CEO Trevor Milton would step down as executive chairman and leave the company. GM’s stock has now given back all the gains that followed the partnership announcement.
But despite those paper losses, and the potential for more if Nikola’s situation worsens, … Read the rest
India mulls on supplying onions to its neighbours
India mulls on supplying onions to its neighboursIndia and Bangladesh are due to review the entire gamut of ties at a meeting between their foreign ministers later this month, from connectivity initiatives to security partnership to joint celebrations of Mujibur Rehman’s birth centenary and energy pipeline to defence partnership.
Market bull John Stoltzfus: U.S. is best place to invest, cites less 'froth'
Oppenheimer Asset Management’s John Stoltzfus sees opportunities among beaten down mega cap names.
This trio of Gallup polls spells a warning for Trump
With 44 days until the U.S. presidential election, it may seem to many as if the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has dramatically changed the political calculus—shifting the national conversation away from President Trump’s performance in office and refocusing voters on the battle over who, ultimately, gets to select Justice Ginsburg’s replacement. But a wealth of new polling data suggests that the fundamentals of this election are not likely to change—and particularly telling are a trio of Gallup survey questions that, taken together, have a strong track record for predicting past races in which sitting presidents vie for a second term.
The three key metrics—gauging presidential approval, U.S. satisfaction, and economic confidence—which were in the field from Aug. 31 to Sept. 13, suggest that President Trump has a very difficult road ahead to win reelection, no matter what happens with respect to the vacancy … Read the rest
Making vaccine is hard. So is shipping at Arctic temp
Making vaccine is hard. So is shipping at Arctic tempA number of the leading COVID-19 vaccines under development will need to be kept at temperatures as low as minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit) from the moment they are bottled to the time they are ready to be injected into patients’ arms. That will not be easy.
A package addressed to Trump containing the deadly poison ricin was intercepted this week
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that the Secret Service, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating the origins of the letter.
Self-driving cars will hit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a landmark A.I. race
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Next year, a squad of souped-up Dallara race cars will reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour as they zoom around the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway to discover whether a computer could be the next Mario Andretti.
The planned Indy Autonomous Challenge—taking place in October 2021 in Indianapolis—is intended for 31 university computer science and engineering teams to push the limits of current self-driving car technology. There will be no human racers sitting inside the cramped cockpits of the Dallara IL-15 race cars. Instead, onboard computer systems will take their place, outfitted with deep-learning software enabling the vehicles to drive themselves.
In order to win, a team’s autonomous car must be able to complete 20 laps—which equates to a little less than 50 miles … Read the rest