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Seven months of agitation: Farmers plan march to Delhi, three metro stations shut
Sat Jun 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Marking seven months of their agitation at Delhi’s borders against the farm laws passed by the Centre, farmers have decided to march towards the national capital on Saturday....
Omar Abdullah: Didn’t give up demands, foolish to expect return of Article 370 from this govt
Sat Jun 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
It will be foolish to demand restoration of Article 370 — provision in the Constitution of India that provided Jammu and Kashmir a special dispensation, and was abrogated on August...
Former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh skips ED summons in money laundering case
Sat Jun 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Maharashtra’s former home minister Anil Deshmukh skipped summons by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday for questioning in a money laundering case. His lawyer Jaywant Pati...
Delta plus variant of Covid-19 found in 48 samples in 10 states, Delta now in 174 districts
Sat Jun 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus is present in at least 174 districts of the country — and its sub-lineage, Delta plus, has been detected in 48 samples in ...
Biden Meets Afghan Leaders As US Troops Leave, Fighting Rages
Fri Jun 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
U.S. President Joe Biden meets Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his former political foe, Abdullah Abdullah, on Friday to discuss Washington's support for Afghanistan as the last ...
Kerala Court's Relief For Lakshadweep Filmmaker Aisha Sultana In Sedition Case
Fri Jun 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
In a relief for Lakshadweep filmmaker Aisha Sultana in a sedition case filed against her, the Kerala High Court today granted her anticipatory bail. The court had earlier given a t...
Philippines Approves Emergency Use Of Bharat Biotech COVID-19 Vaccine
Fri Jun 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Philippines' food and drug agency said on Friday it has approved the emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Indian company Bharat Biotech....
ED searches house of ex-Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh in money laundering case
Fri Jun 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted a search operation at the residence of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in Nagpur in connection with a money laundering cas...
China’s troop amassing, bids to alter status quo behind standoff: India
Fri Jun 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India on Thursday blamed China’s actions of amassing a large number of troops close to the border and attempts to unilaterally alter the status quo along the Line of Actual Control...
Statehood should be restored first, then elections: Ghulam Nabi Azad
Fri Jun 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Senior Congress leader and former J&K chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was among those who attended the PM’s meeting on Thursday, speaks to The Indian Express about the issues ...
1st 'Made-In-India' Aircraft Carrier To Be Commissioned Next Year: Rajnath Singh
Fri Jun 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India's first 'made-in-India' Aircraft Carrier - INS Vikrant - will be commissioned next year, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said at the southern naval command in Kochi today....
Delhi "Exaggerated" Oxygen Need By 4 Times: Row Over Interim Report
Fri Jun 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Delhi government exaggerated the city's oxygen requirement by four times during the peak of the Covid crisis in April-May and the supply of excess oxygen "affected other states...
Brazil Supreme Court Confirms That Judge Was Biased Against Ex-President Lula
Thu Jun 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed its earlier ruling that a lower court judge had failed to treat ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fairly in graft probes, a decis...
New research: Low-cost method for finding new variants of coronavirus
Thu Jun 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a technology for cost-effective surveillance of the global spread of new SARS-CoV-2 variants. The technique is presented in the ...
"Rahul Gandhi Should Join Hands With Sharad Pawar To Align All Opposition": Shiv Sena
Thu Jun 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Shiv Sena today said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should join hands with NCP chief Pawar to align all opposition parties together to take on the ruling BJP at the Centre. "(Rah...
The Local Kirana Store Becomes Amazon, Walmart's Passage To India
Thu Jun 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Measuring barely 200 square feet, Nagaraju Bhoganatham's tiny store in Bengaluru is packed to the rafters: Bulging burlap sacks of rice and lentils are heaped against overflowing t...
'Fake' Vaccine Probe After MP Mimi Chakraborty Gets Jab At Suspect Event
Thu Jun 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A man who allegedly pretended to be an IAS officer and supervised thousands of vaccinations in Kolkata was arrested on Wednesday after he was exposed reportedly when Trinamool Cong...
PM's Big Meeting On Jammu and Kashmir Today: What's At Stake
Thu Jun 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Nearly two years after Jammu and Kashmir lost its special status and was downgraded into two Union Territories, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called political parties to discuss...
Nandigram case: Mamata Banerjee wants Justice Chanda to recuse, cites BJP link
Thu Jun 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday appeared virtually in the hearing of her petition challenging the Nandigram Assembly poll result, in which her former protege a...
Sexual assault case: HC to hear Goa govt’s appeal against Tarun Tejpal’s acquittal on July 29
Thu Jun 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday adjourned till July 29 an appeal filed by the Goa government against the acquittal of journalist Tarun Tejpal in a 2013 rape case...