Read more about Utilties shares fall on Business Standard. Utilties stocks were trading in the negative zone, with the S&P BSE Utilities index falling 34.69 points or 1.43% at 2398.61 at 13:49 IST.
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Utilties stocks were trading in green, with the S&P BSE Utilities index increasing 38.39 points or 1.57% at 2477.92 at 09:49 IST. Among the components of the S&P BSE Utilities index, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (up 5.31%), Reliance Power Ltd (up 4.93%),Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd (up 4.79%),Adani Transmission Ltd (up 3.8%),PTC India Ltd (up 3.72%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were Mahanagar Gas Ltd (up 3.19%), Va Tech Wabag Ltd (up 2.33%), GE T&D India Ltd (up 2.08%), BF Utilities Ltd (up 1.6%), and Indraprastha Gas Ltd (up 1.46%). On the other hand, Indian Energy Exchange Ltd (down 0.71%), turned lower.
At 09:49 IST, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 141.09 or 0.28% at 50792.99.
Explosive charges demolish defunct Newberg paper mill
Thunderous explosion marks continued work to demolish and scrap the former newsprint fabrication plant.
On May 5, near noon, Newberg was rocked by a booming sound emanating from south of the city. Dogs barked, car alarms blared and social media sites were sent into a frenzy, but in the end it was just another indicator that a historic local landmark s days are numbered.
The manmade thunder, it was later revealed, came about when a contractor set off explosive charges in one of the buildings that made up the former WestRock paper mill sandwiched between Wynooski, 11th and River streets and the Willamette River. Community Development Director Doug Rux said the explosives were placed on the legs of one of the mill s tall tower buildings; when detonated, the building was destabilized and came crashing to the ground.
The tourist who mistook Bangor for San Francisco
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Wiki WormholeWe explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,664,405-week series, Wiki Wormhole.
What it’s about: The tourist who mistook Bangor, Maine for San Francisco, becoming a local folk hero in the process.
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Biggest controversy: No real controversy here, just a big misunderstanding. Erwin Kreuz was a 50-year-old German brewery worker who spoke no English and had only taken one flight in his life before he booked a trip to San Francisco in 1977. When the flight made a refueling stop in Bangor, a flight attendant whose shift was ending and wouldn’t continue on for the next leg of the flight, bid him to enjoy his stay in San Francisco. Kreuz took that to mean the plane had landed in the Golden City and got off the plane. He got into a taxi, asked the driver for “sleep,” and was taken to the Bangor House hotel, not realizing until the morning he was in the wrong pla