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Bandh In Village Of Fisherman Killed By Pak Maritime Security Personnel
Mon Nov 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Residents of Vadrai village in Maharashtra's Palghar district observed a bandh on Monday to protest the killing of a native fisherman by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA...
Energy Crisis In India, China That Helped Revive Coal Is Easing, For Now
Mon Nov 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An energy crisis in two of Asia's key economies that caused power shortages and threatened slower growth is beginning to ease, though further risks remain. Supplies of coal, the ke...
"Only Mamata Banerjee Got It Spot On": Derek O'Brien On Demonetisation
Mon Nov 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Only Mamata Banerjee got it spot on, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien tweeted today on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sudden demonetisation move or ban on high-value currenc...
COP26: Fossil fuel industry has largest delegation at climate summit
Mon Nov 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
There are more delegates at COP26 associated with the fossil fuel industry than from any single country, analysis shared with the BBC shows. Campaigners led by Global Witness asses...
China Builds Missile Targets Shaped Like US Navy Ships In Desert: Report
Mon Nov 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
China's military has built mockups in the shape of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and other U.S. warships, possibly as training targets, in the desert of Xinjiang, satellite images b...
CRPF Constable Opens Fire With AK-47 In Chhattisgarh, 4 Colleagues Killed
Mon Nov 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Four CRPF personnel were killed and three others injured after their colleague opened fire at them in a camp of the paramilitary force in Chhattisgarh''s Sukma district on Monday, ...
HC judge to monitor Lakhimpur Kheri probe till chargesheet is filed, says SC
Mon Nov 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Expressing displeasure of the status report filed by the Uttar Pradesh government on the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri incident, the Supreme Court said that a judge of a different High...
Eye on state polls, PM Modi kicks off BJP’s national executive meeting
Sun Nov 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the BJP’s national executive meeting on Sunday to discuss organisational matters as well as its strategy for the upcoming assembly polls in ...
Iraq Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survives assassination bid with drones
Sun Nov 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survived an assassination attempt with armed drones that targeted his residence early Sunday and officials said he was unharmed. The attack...
Wankhede part of plot to kidnap Aryan Khan: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik
Sun Nov 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Sunday accused the NCB’s Mumbai Zonal Unit director Sameer Wankhede of being part of a larger plot to kidnap Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s so...
Tripura violence: After SC lawyers, 102 social media accounts face UAPA charge
Sun Nov 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Three days after they charged four Supreme Court lawyers under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), police in Tripura have invoked the same stringent anti-terrorism law...
India, France agree to expand partnership in defence, security
Sun Nov 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India and France agreed to strengthen defence and security partnership by enhancing intelligence and information sharing, bolstering capabilities, expanding military drills and pur...
Elon Musk Leaves Fate Of His $21 Billion Tesla Stock On Twitter Poll
Sun Nov 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Saturday asked his 62.5 million followers on Twitter in a poll if he should sell 10 per cent of his Tesla stock....
Punjab Must Bring Order To Stall Centre's BSF Move, Farm Laws: Akali Dal
Sun Nov 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked the Congress government in Punjab to issue an executive order for non-implementation of the centre's move of extending the BSF's jurisdict...
Amid Climate Crisis, Nuclear Power Finally Has "Seat At Table": UN Agency
Sun Nov 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
For more than two decades, promoters and purveyors of nuclear energy felt shunned at UN climate change conferences. At the COP26 summit underway in Glasgow, however, they have been...
Amid Resignation Row, Top Punjab Government Lawyer Attacks Navjot Sidhu
Sat Nov 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Punjab Advocate General APS Deol has hit back at Congress leader Navjot Sidhu - who has demanded he resign from his appointed post for representing two accused cops in the 2015 sac...
Maharashtra Ex Minister's Further Custody Sought In Money Laundering Case
Sat Nov 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Enforcement Directorate will today seek extended custody of former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh, who was arrested by the agency earlier this week over a money laundering ...
Joe Biden's $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Passed Amid Approval Slump
Sat Nov 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Democrats rescued President Joe Biden's faltering domestic agenda Friday, passing a giant infrastructure package that is one of the pillars of his $3 trillion economic vision after...
Russia, Iran, Central Asian NSAs will attend Delhi meet on Kabul
Sat Nov 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Days after Pakistan’s NSA declared he would not be attending the conference on Afghanistan in India, New Delhi said Friday that Russia, Iran and Central Asian countries have confir...
Anti-Drugs Agency To Challenge Minister's Son-In-Law's Bail: Sources
Sat Nov 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A drugs case involving Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik's son-in-law was among six transferred out of the Narcotics Control Bureau's Mumbai unit on Friday evening, and handed to a ...