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Ruling DMK Ahead In Tamil Nadu Urban Civic Polls
Tue Feb 22 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Ruling DMK is leading the urban local body polls In Tamil Nadu that were conducted today after a gap of a decade. The BJP has split from AIADMK, the main opposition in the state, a...
Special Air India Flight Leaves For Ukraine To Bring Back Indians As Tensions Escalate
Tue Feb 22 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Air India's special flight left for Ukraine this morning to bring back Indian nationals stranded in the former soviet state which has found itself in the middle of soaring tensions...
Centre blocks ‘SFJ-linked’ Punjab Politics TV’s apps, website, social media accounts
Tue Feb 22 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Once again relying on intelligence inputs and invoking the emergency powers it was given under the new Information Technology Rules issued last year, the Union Ministry of Informat...
"Misinformation And Disinformation": Trudeau On Canada Truckers' Protests
Tue Feb 22 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday defended his use of emergency powers to end weeks-long trucker-led protests and argued that lingering threats require the measures ...
Shell Fired From Ukraine Destroys Russian Border Facility: Moscow
Mon Feb 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Moscow said Monday that a shell fired from Ukraine had destroyed a border facility used by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), amid Western concerns of an escalation in fighti...
Protest Over Karnataka Bajrang Dal Man's Murder, Tear Gas Used
Mon Feb 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Vehicles were set on fire and isolated incidents of stone-pelting were reported as tension spread in Karnataka's Shivamogga town over the murder of a member of right-wing outfit Ba...
Joe Biden-Vladimir Putin Agree To Meet Over Ukraine Crisis, On A Condition
Mon Feb 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden have agreed to a summit -- to be held only if Moscow does not invade Ukraine, France announced Monday following a ...
Bail To Minister's Son Challenged In Supreme Court By Farmers' Families
Mon Feb 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The families of the farmers killed in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri have approached the Supreme Court to challenge the bail to Ashish Mishra, the son of Union minister Ajay Mishr...
China's New Policy To Increase Births As "Demographic Time-Bomb" Ticks
Mon Feb 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Beijing will include more than a dozen fertility services in a government-backed medical insurance scheme for the Chinese capital, state media reported on Monday, supporting those ...
Fifth fodder scam case: Lalu Yadav sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment
Mon Feb 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
A week after a CBI court in Ranchi convicted former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad in the fifth fodder scam case, the RJD chief was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment and the co...
Iranian Military Fighter Jet Crashes Into School, 3 Killed: Report
Mon Feb 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
An Iranian fighter jet crashed Monday in a residential area of the northwestern city of Tabriz killing three people, including two crew, state television reported....
Andhra Pradesh Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy, 50, Dies Of Heart Attack
Mon Feb 21 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Andhra Pradesh Industries Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy passed away following a heart attack on Monday morning at a private hospital in Hyderabad. He was 50....
"Act Of Intimidation": Australia Says China Vessel Aimed Laser At Aircraft
Sun Feb 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Australia's prime minister accused China of an "act of intimidation" on Sunday after Canberra said a Chinese naval vessel shone a laser at one of the country's defence aircraft....
Passenger Found Alive On Greece-Italy Ferry After Fire, 11 Still Missing
Sun Feb 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
A passenger listed as missing after a blaze swept through a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy has been found alive by rescuers, a Greek shipping ministry official said on Sunday....
As Punjab, Uttar Pradesh Vote, Opposition Flags EVM Problems
Sun Feb 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Fifty nine constituencies spread across 16 districts in Uttar Pradesh are voting in the third phase of polling today. Congress-ruled Punjab is also voting. By 1 pm, UP recorded a v...
"Mafias Of Families": Navjot Sidhu's Barb At Amarinder Singh, Badals
Sun Feb 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Assembly elections are a contest between those who love Punjab and the "mafia system" allegedly backed by the Badal family and former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, state Cong...
"Clean Sweep" For Team Akali-BSP, Will Win 80-Plus Seats: Sukhbir Badal
Sun Feb 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Shiromani Akali Dal leader chief Sukhbir Singh Badal has claimed that the Akali-BSP alliance will make a clean sweep in Punjab, winning more than 80 seats. Amid a multi-cornered co...
KCR's Lunch Today At Uddhav Thackeray's, Posters Rev Up Anti-BJP Campaign
Sun Feb 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Following a series of ballistic attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao flew to Mumbai today to meet his Maharashtra counterpart and S...
"Lazy Analogy": S Jaishankar On Comparisons Of Quad With NATO
Sun Feb 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Dismissing the notion that the Quad is an Asian NATO, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that there are "interested parties" who advance such analogies and one should ...
Amid Russia Threat, 'False-Flag Operation' Fears Stoke Tensions In Ukraine
Sun Feb 20 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Pro-Russian separatists said on Saturday they had uncovered a plan by Kyiv to seize territory they control in eastern Ukraine by force, and paraded a man they said was a Ukrainian ...