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"Action Against Farmers Also If Guilty": Haryana Minister On Officer Row
Thu Sep 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Faced with farmers standing firm in calls for action against those who ordered the August 28 lathi charge, and against IAS officer Ayush Sinha for his "crack their (farmers') heads...
France to extend its birth-control support program
Thu Sep 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Starting next year, birth control in France will become free for young adult women up to age 25, the French health minister has announced. The coverage is currently offered only to...
Chirag Paswan meets Tejashwi Yadav
Wed Sep 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader and Lok Sabha MP Chirag Paswan Wednesday met Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav in Patna to invite him to the death anniversary of hi...
Head of Russia’s Emergency Ministry dies in line of duty
Wed Sep 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The head of Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations, Evgeny Zinichev, has died in the country's far north, officials confirmed on Wednesday. The minister was reportedly involved ...
2 Boats With 100 Passengers Collide In Brahmaputra In Assam
Wed Sep 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Several people are missing after two passenger boats collided with each other in the Brahmaputra River in Assam's Jorhat today....
American intelligence financed Ukrainian spy sting
Wed Sep 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The dramatic arrest of more than two dozen Russian ‘mercenaries’ in Belarus, last year, came as the result of an elaborate Ukrainian intelligence operation secretly backed and fina...
Armed forces have decided to induct females in NDA
Wed Sep 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the armed forces have decided to induct women into the National Defence Academy (NDA)....
Wheat Purchase Price Up By 2%, Lowest In A Decade
Wed Sep 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The centre has raised the price it will pay to buy new-season wheat from farmers by 2 per cent - the lowest in a decade – to Rs.2,015 per 100 kg. ...
‘It was not only sexual abuse, it was also verbal and mental abuse’
Wed Sep 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
After a 19-year-old national-level runner filed a sexual harassment complaint against Chennai-based athletics coach P Nagarajan in May, seven more women athletes, among them India ...
Afghanistan: Don't recognise Taliban regime, resistance urges
Wed Sep 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan have asked the international community not to recognise the new government announced by the Islamists on Tuesday....
Haryana farmers reach Karnal in large numbers, protest march to begin soon
Tue Sep 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Amid heavy rainfall on Tuesday, Haryana farmers have started reaching Karnal on Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s call to gherao mini-secretariat. Karnal also happens to be the constituency r...
Pegasus row: Supreme Court adjourns hearing till September 13 as Centre seeks time
Tue Sep 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned till September 13 the hearing in a batch of cases seeking an independent probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping row after the Centre sought ...
Centre to raise farmer database from 5.5 cr to 8 cr by Dec with help of states: Tomar
Tue Sep 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Centre has created a database of 5.5 crore farmers, which will be increased to 8 crore by December this year, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Monday....
Mehbooba Mufti Says Under House Arrest, "Fake Claims Of Normalcy Exposed"
Tue Sep 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti tweeted today that she is under house arrest and the administration's "fake claims of normalcy" have been exposed. Ms Mufti w...
4 Americans Leave Afghanistan, "Cross Border Into Third Country": Report
Tue Sep 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The United States has evacuated four Americans from Afghanistan, a State Department official said on Monday, in the first US-facilitated overland evacuation since the pullout from ...
Brazil President Bolsonaro's Supporters Breach Police Blockade During Protest
Tue Sep 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro will take to the streets Tuesday in hundreds of cities across Brazil for a high-risk national holiday -- but opponents of the far-right leade...
Time for son Chirag to vacate, late Ram Vilas Paswan’s bust installed in bungalow
Tue Sep 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
It’s a small bust — the late LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan wearing his trademark bandhgala and smile. Yet, the statuette that greets visitors to 12, Janpath, where Paswan lived for o...
New Afghanistan Government Will Be Announced Soon, Says Taliban: Report
Tue Sep 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Taliban spokesperson Ahmadullah Muttaki on Tuesday said that preparations for the announcement of the new Afghanistan government's formation have been completed, Sputnik reported....
Taliban Say Resistance Holdout Panjshir Valley "Completely Captured"
Mon Sep 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Taliban said Monday they had captured the last pocket of resistance in Afghanistan, the Panjshir Valley, even as opposition fighters vowed to keep up their struggle against the...
‘Testing our patience’: SC raps Centre over Tribunals Reforms Act
Mon Sep 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court on Monday rapped the government over the delay in filling up the vacancies in Tribunals, Live Law reported. The bench also came down harshly on the Centre for pas...