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Rupee Hits New All-Time Low As Dollar Climbs To 20-Year Peak
Thu Sep 22 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The rupee weakened to a new record low early on Thursday as the greenback climbed to a fresh two-decade high after the US Federal Reserve hiked interest rates and projected a more ...
Beer spill truck crash closes Florida highway
Thu Sep 22 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Florida highway was blocked on Wednesday by thousands of beer cans after a crash with five semi-trailers....
Rush Of One-Way Flights Out Of Russia After Putin's Ukraine Threat
Thu Sep 22 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin's call for mobilisation, the first since World War II, one-way tickets out of Russia swiftly sold out and ticket prices skyrocketed. ...
Home Minister Chairs Meet On Action Against Popular Front Of India
Thu Sep 22 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Union Home Minister Amit Shah today held a meeting wherein the ongoing searches at premises linked to the Popular Front of India and action against terror suspects, were believed t...
Women burn headscarves in Iran anti-hijab protests
Wed Sep 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Female protesters have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran and have been burning headscarves, after the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab law...
German nuclear plant suffers leak
Wed Sep 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
A reactor leak has been detected at the Isar 2 nuclear power plant in the southern German state of Bavaria, the environment ministry said on Monday, citing the plant’s operator. ...
Comedian Raju Srivastava, 58, Dies Weeks After Cardiac Arrest In Gym
Wed Sep 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Comedian Raju Srivastava died today in Delhi, over a month after he suffered a cardiac arrest while working out in the gym. He was 58....
US charges dozens with $250m pandemic relief fraud
Wed Sep 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
US prosecutors have charged 47 people in the largest Covid relief fraud scheme alleged to date....
Turkey owes no explanation to EU – Erdogan
Wed Sep 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Turkey has no obligation to report to the European Union after it took part in a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monda...
Putin Mobilises More Troops For Ukraine
Wed Sep 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia's first mobilisation since World War Two, warning the West that if it continued what he called its "nuclear blackmail" that Mos...
US to release more crude from reserves
Wed Sep 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The US Department of Energy has announced plans to sell up to 10 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) for delivery in November, according to a press st...
Team Thackeray Moves High Court Over Dussehra Rally At Mumbai Park
Wed Sep 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court seeking permission to hold its annual Dussehra rally at the Shivaji Park in central Mumbai....
4 Dead As Part Of Noida Apartment Building's Boundary Wall Collapses
Tue Sep 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Four construction workers were crushed after a part of the boundary wall of a residential society in Noida collapsed this morning. ...
Mudslides and flooding as typhoon batters Japan
Tue Sep 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Rescue workers in Japan have warned of mudslides and flooding as one of the biggest storms in recent decades batters the country....
US tanks ‘absolutely on the table’ for Ukraine – Pentagon
Tue Sep 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The United States may provide “NATO compatible” tanks to the Ukrainian military to replace aging Soviet-era gear, a senior Pentagon official said, as Kiev continues to urge for a s...
Cities Cannot Be Developed With Poll-Centric Approach: PM
Tue Sep 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked BJP mayors to plan a holistic development of cities, and said the elected representatives should not think just in terms of winning po...
Deadly Donetsk blasts hit separatist-run city in Ukraine
Tue Sep 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Thirteen people have been killed and others wounded in a series of explosions in the separatist-run city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to its Russian-backed mayor....
US swaps prisoners with Taliban
Tue Sep 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
US President Joe Biden on Monday announced the release of Mark Frerichs, a US Navy veteran who disappeared in Kabul in 2020 while working as a civilian contractor. ...
Union Minister Fined Over Illegal Construction, Court Orders Demolition
Tue Sep 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Mumbai civic body to demolish the unauthorised construction at Union minister Narayan Rane's bungalow in Juhu area, noting that it vio...
Adidas accused of massive tax evasion in Russia
Tue Sep 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
German sportswear giant Adidas failed to pay 10 billion rubles ($166 million) in taxes in Russia after the company announced plans to quit the country in March, a number of Russian...