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With PM Modi's Farm U-Turn, Opposition Has New Chance to Unite
With PM Modi's Farm U-Turn, Opposition Has New Chance to Unite

Tue Nov 23 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to repeal farm reform laws in the face of persistent protests - his biggest policy U-turn since taking office - handed his opponents momentum ah...

India Should Have Acted After 26/11: Congress's Manish Tewari In Book
India Should Have Acted After 26/11: Congress's Manish Tewari In Book

Tue Nov 23 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

India should have "actioned a kinetic response" against Pakistan in the days following the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks - given it is a state "that has no compunctions in brutally s...

What are you doing to ensure free & fair elections, Supreme Court asks Tripura govt
What are you doing to ensure free & fair elections, Supreme Court asks Tripura govt

Tue Nov 23 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Hearing a contempt plea by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) that claimed that the law-and-order situation in Tripura is “worsening” by the day ahead of civic body elections in the stat...

SC junks plea challenging change in land use on Central Vista project site
SC junks plea challenging change in land use on Central Vista project site

Tue Nov 23 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging change in user of a plot, where official residence of Vice President will be built, on Central Vista project site from recrea...

"Deafening Cries": Several Dead In US As SUV Rams Christmas Parade
"Deafening Cries": Several Dead In US As SUV Rams Christmas Parade

Mon Nov 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

A vehicle plowed into a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin on Sunday causing "some fatalities" and injuring more than 20 people, police said. Officials were still gather...

Sack MoS, make MSP legal right: farmers put six demands to PM Modi
Sack MoS, make MSP legal right: farmers put six demands to PM Modi

Mon Nov 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Even as the Centre began setting the stage for the Union Cabinet to approve on Wednesday the draft of Bills needed to repeal the three agricultural laws, the farm unions wrote an o...

Irresponsible nations tweaking sea rules for own benefit, says Rajnath Singh
Irresponsible nations tweaking sea rules for own benefit, says Rajnath Singh

Mon Nov 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

IN AN apparent reference to China, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday said that “some irresponsible nations” are coming up with “new and inappropriate interpretations” of ...

Union Cabinet likely to approve on Wednesday bills for withdrawal of farm laws
Union Cabinet likely to approve on Wednesday bills for withdrawal of farm laws

Mon Nov 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

The Union Cabinet is likely to take up for approval on Wednesday the bills for withdrawal of the three farm laws, sources in the government said. These bills shall then be introduc...

Paytm Shares Continue To Plunge After Weak Market Debut, Down Nearly 16%
Paytm Shares Continue To Plunge After Weak Market Debut, Down Nearly 16%

Mon Nov 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Shares of Paytm fell as much as 15.96 per cent in their second day of trading. On Thursday, the digital payments start-up made one of the worst major stock market debuts in India, ...

Mamata Banerjee In Delhi Today, Meeting Sonia Gandhi, PM Modi On Agenda
Mamata Banerjee In Delhi Today, Meeting Sonia Gandhi, PM Modi On Agenda

Mon Nov 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

On a day West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives in New Delhi to push forward her agenda for opposition unity, Tripura is centrestage with over a dozen Trinamool MPs set...

Reliance Industries Shares Fall After Halting $15 Billion Aramco Deal
Reliance Industries Shares Fall After Halting $15 Billion Aramco Deal

Mon Nov 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Shares of Reliance Industries fell as much as 4.2 per cent to hit an intraday low of ₹ 2,368.20 on the BSE on Monday as the country's largest firm decided to halt a stake sale in i...

Australian Billionaire To Help Publishers With Google, Facebook Deal
Australian Billionaire To Help Publishers With Google, Facebook Deal

Mon Nov 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest's philanthropic organisation will help 18 small news publishers in the country collectively negotiate with Google and Facebook to secur...

15 Ministers To Join Team Ashok Gehlot Today In Rajasthan Balancing Act
15 Ministers To Join Team Ashok Gehlot Today In Rajasthan Balancing Act

Sun Nov 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Five Sachin Pilot loyalists will be among the 30 ministers in Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's refreshed cabinet, it was revealed Saturday night. Mr Gehlot's new-look cabine...

Farm laws repeal: ‘We will be in Singhu again. But this time, on a happy note: we won’
Farm laws repeal: ‘We will be in Singhu again. But this time, on a happy note: we won’

Sun Nov 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

For a year, farmers and their families, mainly from Punjab, camped at Delhi’s border protesting against the farm laws. After the Prime Minister announced a repeal, The Indian Expre...

Madhya Pradesh Drugs Case: Minister's Warning As Amazon Officials Charged
Madhya Pradesh Drugs Case: Minister's Warning As Amazon Officials Charged

Sun Nov 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Senior executives of Amazon's local unit in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind, about 500 km from state capital Bhopal, have been charged under the narcotics laws in a case of alleged marijuan...

At Kartarpur border, Navjot Singh Sidhu calls Imran Khan ‘bada bhai’, draws BJP fire
At Kartarpur border, Navjot Singh Sidhu calls Imran Khan ‘bada bhai’, draws BJP fire

Sun Nov 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu was at the centre of a new row Saturday after he called Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan his “bada bhai” (elder brother) who had show...

Pak Chief Justice's "No One Dares" Message Amid Courts "Not Free" Charge
Pak Chief Justice's "No One Dares" Message Amid Courts "Not Free" Charge

Sun Nov 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Refuting allegations that the judiciary is under any pressure from security institutions, Pakistan Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed on Saturday said that the judiciary in the country nev...

Rajnath Singh To Commission INS Visakhapatnam Into Indian Navy Today
Rajnath Singh To Commission INS Visakhapatnam Into Indian Navy Today

Sun Nov 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will formally commission INS Visakhapatnam into the Indian Navy at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai on Sunday. INS Visakhapatnam is the first stealth-gui...

₹ 100-Crore Black Income After Income Tax Raids On Gujarat Group
₹ 100-Crore Black Income After Income Tax Raids On Gujarat Group

Sun Nov 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

The Income Tax Department has detected ₹ 100 crore unaccounted income after it recently raided a Gujarat company engaged in manufacturing of chemicals and in real estate, the CBDT ...

Provide "Verifiable Evidence" About Missing Tennis Player: UK To China
Provide "Verifiable Evidence" About Missing Tennis Player: UK To China

Sun Nov 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk

Britain on Saturday urged China to provide "verifiable evidence" about the "safety and whereabouts" of tennis star Peng Shuai, whose whereabouts are unclear after making sexual ass...