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"Arrest Kangana Ranaut, Withdraw Padma Shri": Opposition Amid 'Azadi' Row
Fri Nov 12 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Actor Kangana Ranaut's Padma Shri should be withdrawn and she should be charged with sedition, several political parties have said in a snowballing controversy over her comment tha...
COP26 Final Draft Statement Urges Curbs On Coal, Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Fri Nov 12 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A draft final statement of the COP26 summit Friday called for nations to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels, as two weeks of crunch climate negotiations approach their conclusio...
COP26: Cautious welcome for unexpected US-China climate agreement
Thu Nov 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Activists and politicians have cautiously welcomed an unexpected US-China declaration that vowed to boost climate co-operation. The EU and UN described the move as encouraging and ...
Deployed Nearly 3000 Police Officers In 24 UN Peacekeeping Operations: India
Thu Nov 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India has paid tribute to all women and men peacekeepers, including the 14 police officers who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty, said the country's Deputy Permanent Repre...
BJP Devendra Fadnavis Gets ₹ 5 Crore Defamation Notice Over Drugs Row
Thu Nov 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik's son-in-law Sameer Khan has sent a legal notice to the former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for levelling "defamatory" and "false allegations" ...
Game-Changing Made-In-India Anti-Covid Pills Could Be Cleared For Use In Days
Thu Nov 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Emergency Use Authorisation for the Merck drug Molnupiravir -- an oral antiviral medicine for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 -- is likely "within days", Dr Ram Vishwaka...
Supreme Court To Hear Future Group, Amazon Pleas Over Reliance Deal
Thu Nov 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Future Group's plea against the Delhi High Court's refusal to stay a Singapore tribunal order that froze the ₹ 24,731 crore transaction wit...
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....