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Tax Raids On "Samajwadi Perfume" Maker In UP Amid 'Mistaken Identity' Row
Fri Dec 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Days after a tax raid on an Uttar Pradesh businessman uncovered eye-popping piles of cash but raised questions whether it had found its intended target, opposition Samajwadi Party'...
Resident doctors end strike after promise of no FIR, early NEET-PG counselling
Fri Dec 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The 15-day long strike across the country by resident doctors demanding the NEET-PG counselling to be expedited was called off on Friday morning. The doctors will resume all work b...
Ex-Afghan president Ashraf Ghani opens up about fleeing Kabul
Fri Dec 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Afghanistan’s former president said he had no choice but to abruptly leave Kabul as the Taliban closed in and denied an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputin...
"Invented Names": India On China Renaming 15 Places In Arunachal Pradesh
Fri Dec 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India on Thursday strongly rejected China renaming some places in Arunachal Pradesh and asserted that the state has "always been" and will "always be" an integral part of India and...
1,270 Omicron Cases, Most In Maharashtra (450); 16,764 Fresh Covid Cases
Fri Dec 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The fast-spreading Omicron variant has spread to 23 states in India and now 1,270 people have been infected with the new COVID-19 strain. The new variant has been labeled as "highl...
3 Terrorists Killed Near Srinagar, 1 Was Behind Police Bus Attack: Cops
Fri Dec 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Three terrorists, including a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist involved in an attack on a police bus earlier this month, were gunned down by security forces during an overnight enc...
Covid Hospitalisations Jump 60% In US' "Most Densely Populated" State
Fri Dec 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Hospitalizations for Covid-19 jumped 60% from a week ago in New Jersey, the most densely populated US state. The 3,604 patients numbered just 122 short of those a year ago, before ...
Nagaland Villager, An Ex-Jawan, Was Shot In Army Firing. His Account
Fri Dec 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
''Bullets were coming from all directions, not only from the jawans who were fleeing.'' Chongmei Konyak had seen it all before - his training as an Indian Army jawan instinctively ...
Hindu Religious Leader Arrested After Remarks Against Gandhi, Islam
Thu Dec 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Hindu religious leader from Maharashtra who insulted Mahatma Gandhi and praised his assassin, Nathuram Godse, has been arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police from Madhya Pradesh's K...
CIA-backed secret experiments conducted on hundreds of Danish orphans – documentary
Thu Dec 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) allegedly backed secret experiments into schizophrenia on 311 Danish children, many adopted or from orphanages, during the early 1960s, accord...
Signs That Omicron "Gradually Spreading In Community": Delhi Minister
Thu Dec 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
People with no travel history are being infected with the Omicron Covid variant and this suggests it is now spreading in the community, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said Th...
Chinese satellite snaps hi-res imagery of San Francisco in seconds
Thu Dec 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Chinese satellite has snapped high-resolution imagery around the US city of San Francisco in just 42 seconds. ...
Sex Assault Case: Fresh Demands For Probe Against Actor Dileep
Thu Dec 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Women in Cinema Collective, an organisation working for women in the Malayalam cinema industry, has sought action from the law enforcement agencies in Kerala on the recent statemen...
Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse girls
Thu Dec 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein....
Robbery At SBI Bank In Mumbai, One Employee Dead
Thu Dec 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A bank in Mumbai was robbed this evening and an employee was shot dead, police said. The shocking incident was captured on the surveillance cameras, and the footage is now being in...
Pak buys 25 China-made J-10C fighter jets
Thu Dec 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Pakistan has acquired a full squadron of 25 Chinese multirole J-10C fighter jets in response to India’s purchase of Rafale aircraft, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on W...
781 Omicron Cases, Most In Delhi
Wed Dec 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The total count of the highly transmissible coronavirus variant Omicron has reached 781 in India. The variant of concern that was first detected in South Africa in November has now...
Nagaland Firing: Army OKs Probe Team Access To Jawans, Say Police Sources
Wed Dec 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The army has agreed to give access to Nagaland's Special Investigation Team, or SIT, to examine and record the statements of officers and jawans who were involved in an ambush that...
P Jain and P Jain: Tale of 2 perfume merchants raises some stink in UP
Wed Dec 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
They have the same first initial, P; the same surname, Jain. They hail from the same neighbourhood Jain street in UP’s Kannauj. They are in the same trade, perfumes. And in a bitte...
50 Covid Cases In Maharashtra Assembly During 5-Day Winter Session
Wed Dec 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Maharashtra Assembly was hit by COVID-19 during the Winter Session with nearly 50 people, including two ministers, testing positive for the virus. "Nearly 50 people, including two ...