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LPG Cylinder Price: Cooking Gas Rates Up Rs. 15
Wed Oct 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Non-subsidised liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) prices were hiked by Rs. 15 on Wednesday, October 6, in line with the surge in international fuel prices. ...
But Minister's Son Was There, Says A Passenger In The 'Killer' Convoy
Wed Oct 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A fresh video from violence-hit Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh has emerged. It shows a police official interrogating a man after an SUV ran over protesting farmers in the distric...
Canada: Two teenage hockey players arrested over allegations of sexual assault
Wed Oct 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Two teenage hockey players have been formally charged in Canada over a sexual assault they allegedly carried out, with one of the youngsters accused of sharing images from the repo...
Facebook blames ‘faulty configuration change’ for massive outage
Tue Oct 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Facebook has issued a mea culpa after disrupting the business and social interactions of millions of users as a Facebook-owned social media trio lagged for over six hours, while bl...
Video Of Farmers Run Over Goes Viral
Tue Oct 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A video, apparently of an SUV running over slogan-shouting farmers marching in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, has surfaced on social media and has even been shared by Varun Gandh...
Govt orders CBDT-led probe into Pandora
Tue Oct 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
As per news report of The Indian Express, the Goverment Monday directed a multi-agency probe involving the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Enforcement Directorate, Reserve Bank of I...
Record number of China planes enter Taiwan air defence zone
Tue Oct 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Taiwan has urged Beijing to stop "irresponsible provocative actions" after a record number of Chinese warplanes entered its air defence zone....
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....