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Salvadoran journalists’ phones hacked with Pegasus, report finds
Thu Jan 13 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The cell phones of nearly three dozen journalists and activists in El Salvador, several of whom were investigating alleged state corruption, have been hacked since mid-2020 and imp...
Prince Andrew to face civil sex assault case after US ruling
Thu Jan 13 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Prince Andrew is to face a civil case in the US over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17....
Elon Musk Says Tesla Not In India Due To 'Challenges With The Government'
Thu Jan 13 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Elon Musk has wanted to sell Tesla Inc. cars in India as early as 2019. Three years later, the U.S. electric-vehicle pioneer isn't really much closer. ...
Boris Johnson to face MPs following revelations
Wed Jan 12 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Boris Johnson is to face MPs later at Prime Minister's Questions amid demands for him to say whether he attended a drinks event in the Downing Street garden during lockdown....
'Abduction' Drama Follows UP Minister, MLAs' Big BJP Exit Before Polls
Wed Jan 12 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
A bed-ridden Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA - among five lawmakers who quit the ruling party yesterday ahead of elections next month - has issued a statement after his daughter alleged he h...
India reports 1,94,720 fresh Covid-19 cases
Wed Jan 12 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
India recorded 1,94,720 fresh Covid-19 cases and 442 deaths in the 24 hours ending 8 am Wednesday. The active cases mounted to 9,55,319, the highest in 211 days. The daily positivi...
Djokovic addresses claims he misled Australian officials
Wed Jan 12 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Novak Djokovich has called an “error of judgment” his decision to attend an interview with a newspaper after testing positive for Covid-19, but dismissed a separate travel declarat...
SC appoints 5-member panel headed to probe PM security breach
Wed Jan 12 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court Wednesday appointed an inquiry committee under its former judge Justice Indu Malhotra to probe the security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to ...
Chief Minister Channi's Hint For Congress After Navjot Sidhu's Warning
Wed Jan 12 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Congress may have kept any decision on a Chief Minister candidate in Punjab at bay ahead of elections but its two top faces, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state Con...
An Open Letter To YouTube CEO From The World’s Fact-checkers
Wed Jan 12 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
As per news report of Newschecker.in, Fact checkers around the world wrote an open letter to Youtube CEO. The letter states…...
North Korea says Kim Jong-un oversaw third hypersonic missile test
Wed Jan 12 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
North Korea says it has conducted another hypersonic missile test, under the watch of its leader Kim Jong-un....
US breaks Covid-19 hospitalisation record at over 1.3 lakh
Tue Jan 11 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Covid-19 hospitalisations in the United States reached a record high on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, as a surge in infections caused by the highly contagious Omicron varia...
Millions More Locked Down In China, Beijing On High Alert
Tue Jan 11 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Five million residents of a central Chinese city were confined to their homes Tuesday while another megacity shuttered all non-essential businesses, as the country battles a spate ...
Top US central banker resigns amid trading scandal
Tue Jan 11 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Federal Reserve Board vice chair Richard Clarida has announced he will step down two weeks before his term is set to expire. His recently amended 2020 financial disclosures raised ...
Tata group to replace Vivo as IPL title sponsor
Tue Jan 11 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
One of India’s largest business conglomerates, the Tata Group, is all set to replace Chinese mobile manufacturer Vivo as the Indian Premier League’s title sponsor from this year, t...
"Concerned By China's Attempt To Intimidate": US On Border Row With India
Tue Jan 11 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
The US is concerned by China's attempt to "intimidate" its neighbours, including India, as Washington believes that Beijing's behaviour in the region and around the world could be ...
Russia warns US of possible military response
Tue Jan 11 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned his American counterparts on Monday that some form of military response to the US stationing advanced weapons in Europe could...
India reported 1,68,063 new Covid-19 cases
Tue Jan 11 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
India on Tuesday reported 1,68,063 new Covid-19 cases and 277 related deaths even as the country’s active count mounted to 8,21,446, data from the Union Ministry of Health showed. ...
Uttar Pradesh Minister, 3 BJP Leaders Quit
Tue Jan 11 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
In a big jolt to the BJP and Yogi Adityanath just before the Uttar Pradesh election, senior leader Swami Prasad Maurya today quit as minister and joined rival Samajwadi Party of Ak...
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Jailed For 4 Years For Walkie-Talkie Possession
Mon Jan 10 2022 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Myanmar junta court on Monday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civ...