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Twitter Has Banned Posting Images Of People Without Consent - Why That's A Good Thing
Twitter Has Banned Posting Images Of People Without Consent - Why That's A Good Thing

Sat Dec 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Twitter recently announced that it will no longer allow “the sharing of private media, such as images or videos of private individuals without their consent”. The move takes effect...

Hundreds reach to pay last respects to CDS, funeral to be held at Brar Square in Delhi
Hundreds reach to pay last respects to CDS, funeral to be held at Brar Square in Delhi

Fri Dec 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

CDS Bipin Rawat Funeral Updates: Hundreds of people have gathered outside the residence of Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat in Delhi to pay their last respects. General R...

Nagaland: Down the road where 6 killed in ambush, mines a lifeline for Tiru
Nagaland: Down the road where 6 killed in ambush, mines a lifeline for Tiru

Fri Dec 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Every single week between October and May, for years, Phonei, 29, and Mary, 18, have followed the same routine. To the mine on Monday, back on Saturday, at Church service on Sunday...

PM Modi Discusses Strategy For Winter Session In Meet With Top Ministers
PM Modi Discusses Strategy For Winter Session In Meet With Top Ministers

Fri Dec 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a meeting with senior ministers in Parliament to discuss strategy for the ongoing winter session.Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance ...

Don’t allow BSF, Mamata tells police; Dhankhar says ‘alarming for security’
Don’t allow BSF, Mamata tells police; Dhankhar says ‘alarming for security’

Fri Dec 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

As West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday once again brought up the Centre’s decision to extend the BSF’s jurisdiction in border states, asking state police to not ...

Al-Qaeda numbers in Afghanistan up ‘slightly’, says US commander
Al-Qaeda numbers in Afghanistan up ‘slightly’, says US commander

Fri Dec 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

The al-Qaeda extremist group has grown slightly inside Afghanistan since US forces left in late August, and the country’s new Taliban leaders are divided over whether to fulfill th...

Goa Congress Hit By Several Resignations On Day Of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's Visit
Goa Congress Hit By Several Resignations On Day Of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's Visit

Fri Dec 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

The Goa Congress faced a spate of resignations and confusion prevailed over its alliance with like-minded parties for the upcoming polls in the coastal state as the opposition part...

China Says Not Worried About Any "Domino Effect" Of Olympic Boycotts
China Says Not Worried About Any "Domino Effect" Of Olympic Boycotts

Fri Dec 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

China is not worried about a "domino effect" of diplomatic boycotts of the Beijing Winter Olympics, it said on Thursday, after Australia, Britain and Canada joined the United State...

Delhi Police Arrests Former Religare CEO In ₹ 2,400 Crore RFL Scam Case
Delhi Police Arrests Former Religare CEO In ₹ 2,400 Crore RFL Scam Case

Fri Dec 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police has arrested a former Group CEO of Religare Enterprises Limited in connection with siphoning off public money of nearly ₹ 2,400 crore, of...

Black Box Of General Bipin Rawat's Crashed Chopper Recovered
Black Box Of General Bipin Rawat's Crashed Chopper Recovered

Thu Dec 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today made a statement in both houses of Parliament on the chopper crash in Tamil Nadu that killed 13 people, including Chief Of Defence Staff Genera...

Delhi pollution: Indoor air worse than outside, says study
Delhi pollution: Indoor air worse than outside, says study

Thu Dec 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

India's capital Delhi has alarmingly high levels of indoor air pollution, new research has found....

Nuclear submarine ‘spies’ invoke Trump defense
Nuclear submarine ‘spies’ invoke Trump defense

Thu Dec 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

A Maryland woman charged in connection with selling US nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign power wanted to flee the country because she despised President Donald Trump, not beca...

Boss says sorry for 'blundered' Zoom firing of 900 staff
Boss says sorry for 'blundered' Zoom firing of 900 staff

Thu Dec 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

The boss of a US mortgage company, who fired hundreds of his staff in a Zoom meeting has said he is "deeply sorry" for the way the lay-offs were handled....

Air Force Pilot, Only Survivor Of Crash, On Life Support: Defence Minister
Air Force Pilot, Only Survivor Of Crash, On Life Support: Defence Minister

Thu Dec 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Group Captain Varun Singh, the only survivor of the helicopter crash in which Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 12 others were killed, is "critical, but stable". Defen...

US & Israel mull drills to strike Iran’s nuclear sites – reports
US & Israel mull drills to strike Iran’s nuclear sites – reports

Thu Dec 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Israel and the US will discuss the possibility of a joint military exercise to prepare for attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, according to multiple reports, just days after Washingt...

Omicron May Change Pandemic Course Without Action, WHO Warns
Omicron May Change Pandemic Course Without Action, WHO Warns

Thu Dec 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

The World Health Organization said the omicron variant of the coronavirus may change the course of the pandemic. ...

Explosion In Delhi's Rohini Court, Proceedings Suspended, Cops Investigate
Explosion In Delhi's Rohini Court, Proceedings Suspended, Cops Investigate

Thu Dec 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

A mysterious explosion was reported in Delhi's Rohini Court this morning, fire officials said....

Since Article 370 scrapped, monthly Army deaths fall, civilian fatalities rise
Since Article 370 scrapped, monthly Army deaths fall, civilian fatalities rise

Wed Dec 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Data provided by the MHA in Parliament last week, and that available with the J&K Police, shows that, on an average, the UT has seen 3.2 casualties a month since August 5, 2019, in...

Farm unions discuss Govt proposal, to take call on course of agitation
Farm unions discuss Govt proposal, to take call on course of agitation

Wed Dec 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, which has been spearheading the farmer protests at the borders of Delhi for more than a year now, said Tuesday it had received a written proposal from the...

Australia Joins US In Diplomatic Boycott Of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Australia Joins US In Diplomatic Boycott Of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Wed Dec 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Australia will not send officials to February's Winter Olympics in Beijing, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, joining a US diplomatic boycott of the Games. Canberra'...