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Lakhimpur-like incident in Punjab: farmers; SAD says its vehicle attacked
Thu Nov 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
It was farmers versus Akali Dal in Ferozepur Wednesday as former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal visited the constituency for campaigning. While SAD accused farmers of attackin...
Supreme Court To Hear Plea Of Journalist To Nix Tripura Anti-Terror Case
Thu Nov 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea by journalist Shyam Meera Singh and two others that seeks to quash a Tripura Police FIR under controversial anti-terror law UAPA for soc...
Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot meet top Congress leaders in Delhi
Thu Nov 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Congress high command on Wednesday is learnt to have nudged Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to carry out a long pending expansion and reshuffle of his Cabinet and include...
Xi Jinping Says China Is Ready To Work With US To Manage Differences
Wed Nov 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
China is ready to properly manage differences with the United States, President Xi Jinping has said, ahead of a virtual meeting with US....
Court Rejects CBI Challenge For Inspection Of Documents In INX Media Case
Wed Nov 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s challenge to a trial court order allowing inspection of documents by Congress leader , son K...
3 staff memos flagged ‘polarising’ content, hate speech in India but Facebook said not a problem
Wed Nov 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
FROM a “constant barrage of polarising nationalistic content”, to “fake or inauthentic” messaging, from “misinformation” to content “denigrating” minority communities, several red ...
UP Man Dies In Police Station, Family Suspects Cops' Role; 5 Suspended
Wed Nov 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Five policemen have been suspended in Uttar Pradesh's Etah district, 270 km west of state capital Lucknow, after a 22-year-old man allegedly killed himself at a police station on T...
Nepal Army chief arrives, his colleague flags India-China rift
Wed Nov 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
As Nepal Army chief General Prabhu Ram Sharma began a four-day visit to India Tuesday, its spokesperson said “Nepal is struggling against the headwind created by growing fissures i...
Upset over farm laws impasse, farmer allegedly kills himself at Singhu border
Wed Nov 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The body of a 45-year-old farmer was found hanging from a tree near a mall at the farmers’ protest site at Singhu border on Wednesday morning. The police said preliminary reports s...
Nawab Malik Drops "Hydrogen Bomb", Attacks Fadnavis Over Underworld Links
Wed Nov 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik dropped his "hydrogen bomb" on Wednesday morning - the latest in an exchange of swipes with former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis that began with...
Afghan Matters Have "Implications For Region": India At Security Dialogue
Wed Nov 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The recent developments in Afghanistan have important implications not only for the people of that country but also for its neighbours and the region, National Security Adviser (NS...
Teary-Eyed Family Reunions At New York Airport As US Reopens Borders
Tue Nov 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
At terminal 7 inside New York's JFK airport, the first passengers off British Airway's first flight since the borders reopened were greeted with clapping and cheering and company-c...
Canada records world’s first patient diagnosed with ‘climate change’
Tue Nov 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Since June, hundreds of people have died in a heat wave that broke Canadian heat records....
UK to add Covaxin to approved list from November 22
Tue Nov 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The move follows the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Emergency Use Listing for Covaxin, which is the second most used formulation in India....
Brahmins, Baniyas in pocket: BJP MP in-charge on need for tribal vote base
Tue Nov 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Bypolls were held for three Assembly and one Lok Sabha seat of which BJP retained its Khandwa parlimentary seat. It also won two of the Assembly seats....
"My Ministers Don't Know Hindi": Mizoram Chief Minister To Amit Shah
Tue Nov 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Chief Minister Pu Zoramthanga has requested that Additional Chief Secretary JC Ramthanga be named the new chief secretary in place of Renu Sharma....
Chennai Rain News Live: Red alert issued till Nov 11; toll rises to 5
Tue Nov 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Chennai, Tamil Nadu Weather Warning: At least five people have died in rain-related incidents across the state, while 538 huts and four houses have been damaged, KKSSR Ramachandran...
Dengue Cases Piling Up, Outbreak Worst In Several Years: Delhi Hospital
Tue Nov 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Delhi logged 1,171 dengue cases in the first six days of November, after reporting only 1,196 through the whole of October and just 217 in September, according to PTI...
Devendra Fadnavis's "Underworld Links Proof" Against Maharashtra Minister
Tue Nov 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Reiterating his earlier charge that Mr Malik has underworld links, the BJP leader, addressing a press conference, presented what he calls "proof" of the connection....
Taliban Members Are Now Governors, Police Chiefs In Afghanistan
Mon Nov 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Taliban appointed 44 of its members to key roles including provincial governors and police chiefs on Sunday, a key step in shoring up its governance as the country grapples wit...