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Major outages hit Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, Zoom, Snapchat & others after FB crash
Tue Oct 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Many of the world’s largest apps and websites, including for banks and airlines, faced a cascade of outages all in the space of a few hours, prompting panic among netizens as some ...
Pandora Papers: The secret owners of UK property worth billions
Tue Oct 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The secret owners of more than 1,500 UK properties bought using offshore firms have been uncovered by a BBC investigation....
India slams Pak for raising Kashmir issue at UN
Tue Oct 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Strongly hitting out at Pakistan for again raking up the Kashmir issue at the UN, India has said a constructive contribution cannot be expected from a country that has an establish...
Four Days Of Coal Reserves Left
Tue Oct 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The worsening squeeze on India's coal supply is triggering a power crisis that's threatening to stall the world's fastest-expanding major economy....
Mark Zuckerberg loses $6 billion in hours as Facebook stock plunges
Tue Oct 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by more than $6 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came...
Eight killed as plane crashes into Milan building
Mon Oct 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A private plane has crashed into an empty office block in the northern Italian city of Milan, killing all eight people on board....
Pandora: Elite Indians find new ways to ringfence wealth in secret havens
Mon Oct 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Seven leaks later, after regulators worldwide have begun cracking down on global money flows, the elite are finding ingenious new ways to ring-fence their assets from scrutiny at h...
Murder Case Against Union Minister's Son, Others In UP Violence
Mon Oct 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A murder case has been filed against Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra's son for allegedly running a car over protesting farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimp...
‘Betrayal of democracy’? Whistleblower blasts Facebook for prioritizing profits over fighting ‘hate speech & misinformation’
Mon Oct 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A former Facebook data scientist, responsible for censoring “dangerous” and “misleading” information during the 2020 US election, has all but accused the social media giant of faci...
1,091 trees to be cut for SPA’s new campus at Vasant Kunj
Mon Oct 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Supreme Court committee has recommended the felling of 1,091 trees for a proposed campus of School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) at the ‘extended ridge area’ in south Delhi’...
US-abandoned Bagram base reportedly operational for first time in two months
Mon Oct 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Bagram Airfield, once the linchpin of the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan, is said to be powered and serving planes again. A foreign force is rumored to be involved, with finger...
SRK's Son, Aryan, Taken To Court Day After Arrest In Drugs-On-Cruise Case
Mon Oct 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Aryan Khan, son of megastar Shah Rukh Khan, was taken to a court in Mumbai this afternoon, a day after he and seven others were arrested following a raid at a party on a cruise shi...
King of Jordan amassed £70m secret property empire
Mon Oct 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The King of Jordan secretly spent more than £70m ($100m) on a property empire in the UK and US....
Sack Minister, Arrest His Son: Tikait
Mon Oct 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
New Delhi, 04 October 2021 Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday demanded that Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra be sacked and that his son be arrested in...
Police recover packet dropped by drone in Jammu villager near Pakistan border
Sun Oct 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The police on Saturday night recovered a packet that is suspected to contain arms in Jammu district’s Almore Mandal village near the international border....
Ukrainian airline swaps high heels for trainers
Sun Oct 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
"Twelve hours on your feet, flying to Kyiv to Zanzibar and back. If you wear high heels, you are hardly able to walk afterwards," says flight attendant Daria Solomennaya, 27....
Thousand People Attend Rally Outside Kabul To Show Support For Taliban
Sun Oct 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Around 1,000 Taliban supporters attended a rally on Sunday in a vast field to the north of Kabul, in a show of strength as they consolidate their rule of Afghanistan....
Supreme Court Collegium sends names twice
Sun Oct 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
In what could mark a significant departure from the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) that governs the process of appointment of judges to the higher judiciary, a month after the Supre...
Thousands march for abortion rights across US
Sun Oct 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Tens of thousands of people have been holding rallies across all 50 US states in support of abortion rights....
Fuel Prices Hiked For Fourth Straight Day
Sun Oct 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) on Sunday hiked fuel prices for the fourth consecutive day. ...