Day in numbers

Important numbers for today

August 23, 2017 09:59 pm | Updated 09:59 pm IST

MOHALI, PUNJAB, 21/03/2016: Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi addressing media persons during a press conference at PCA Stadium, on the eve of their ICC World Cup Twenty20 cricket match against New Zealand, in Mohali on March 21, 2016. 
Photo: Akhilesh Kumar

MOHALI, PUNJAB, 21/03/2016: Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi addressing media persons during a press conference at PCA Stadium, on the eve of their ICC World Cup Twenty20 cricket match against New Zealand, in Mohali on March 21, 2016. Photo: Akhilesh Kumar

₹200

Face value of the latest and the fourth currency to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India since demonetisation. It has issued ₹2,000 as well as new versions of older denominations such as ₹500 and ₹50.

42

Number of balls taken by Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi to score his debut T20 hundred on Tuesday. He achieved this in the NatWest T20 Blast quarter-final while playing for Hampshire against Derbyshire. 

50

Number of passengers injured - as of today - after ten coaches of Delhi-bound Kaifiyat Express derailed in Auraiya district in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. 

83

Number of children - most of them girls - used by Boko Haram in suicide attacks as 'human bombs' in 2017, UNICEF claimed in a statement on Tuesday. 

$417 million

Amount Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay a California-based woman who had filed a law suit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene. The company will appeal against the jury's decision. More than 1,000 other people have filed similar lawsuits. 

30

Number of people reportedly killed in an air strike that hit a hotel north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, the armed Houthi movement said. The Houthis, who control Sanaa and northern Yemen, are fighting the internationally recognized government which is backed by Saudi Arabia and its allies in the country’s civil war.

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