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"Joining Kejriwal A Mistake": AAP's Punjab Ally Merges With Congress
Fri Jun 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Punjab Ekta Party, led by former AAP leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira, announced its merger with the Congress on Thursday, with its leaders calling on Rahul Gandhi in Delhi....
TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020
Fri Jun 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
ByteDance, the Chinese company behind the smash-hit video app TikTok, saw its earnings double last year....
American motorbike daredevil Alex Harvill dies during practice run for 351ft world record jump
Fri Jun 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
American motorbike stunt rider Alex Harvill has died after sustaining injuries during preparations for an ill-fated world record attempt at the Moses Lake Airshow in Washington Sta...
Chhattisgarh: Woman Naxal killed in encounter; AK-47 rifle, two pistols seized
Fri Jun 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A woman Naxal was killed in a gun-battle with security forces inside a forest in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh on Friday, a senior police officer said....
"Pan-India Ramifications": Supreme Court On Delhi Police vs 3 Activists
Fri Jun 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would not immediately interfere with a Delhi High Court order granting bail to student-activists Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal...
Iranians vote in presidential election marred by disqualification row
Fri Jun 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Iranians are voting to elect a new president, with all but one of the four candidates regarded as hardliners....
Pyongyang must be ready for ‘both dialogue & confrontation’ with US: Kim
Fri Jun 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
North Korea needs to be ready for both dialogue and confrontation with Washington, the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said in his first direct statement on policy towards the “newl...
‘Baba Ka Dhaba’ owner in Safdarjung Hospital following suicide bid, says Delhi Police
Fri Jun 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The owner of the famous “Baba Ka Dhaba” in South Delhi’s Malviya Nagar area, Kanta Prasad (80), was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital on Thursday night following a suicide bid, polic...
Stolen car to missing man: farm stir issues go hyperlocal
Thu Jun 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
After six months of agitation against the three Central farm legislations, protesting farmers are now also starting to slowly focus on local problems plaguing Haryana while continu...
Delhi's Chandni Chowk Road To Be No-Car Zone From 9 am to 9 pm
Thu Jun 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The busy Chandni Chowk Road, which is currently under redevelopment, has been notified as a non-motorised zone, with motorised vehicles only being allowed during emergency....
Complaint of sexual abuse against rebel Chirag cousin
Thu Jun 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Four months after Prince Raj, Lok Janshakti Party MP from Samastipur, filed an FIR against two persons, including a woman, for allegedly demanding Rs 1 crore after threatening to i...
Complaint Against Swara Bhasker, Twitter India Head Over UP Assault Posts
Thu Jun 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A complaint has been lodged in Delhi against actor Swara Bhasker, the Managing Director of Twitter India and two others over "inflammatory tweets" on the assault on a Muslim man in...
Several airlines and banks hit by online outage
Thu Jun 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Several airline websites in the US and Australia suffered an outage early on Thursday, according to the tracking site Downdetector....
CBSE Announces Class 12 Scoring Plan, Results By July 31
Thu Jun 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today released the Class 12 evaluation criteria or the final strategy through which it will assess Class 12 students in the Supreme ...
Putin hails ‘constructive’ talks with Biden in Geneva
Thu Jun 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that talks with his American counterpart Joe Biden in Switzerland on Wednesday were positive and cordial in tone, and that progress was ma...
China launches crewed Shenzhou-12 mission
Thu Jun 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A rocket carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft with three Chinese astronauts on board has blasted off from China’s Inner Mongolia in a historic launch that is critical for the comple...
Ghaziabad attack: DIGIPUB condemn FIR against journalists and The Wire
Thu Jun 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
DigiPub, a collective of digital media organisations, has strongly condemned the FIR filed against three journalists – Saba Naqvi, Rana Ayyub, Mohammad Zubair and The Wire for thei...
MP: Two Dalit men allegedly abused with casteist slurs, assaulted; six held
Wed Jun 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Six people have been booked in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district for allegedly abusing, assaulting and threatening to kill a Dalit man and his son. ...
Israel strikes in Gaza after fire balloons launched
Wed Jun 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Israel says it carried out air strikes in Gaza overnight after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons from the territory, in the first major flare-up since an 11-day conflict la...
'Calf Serum' Used But Not Present In Covaxin: Government's 'Fact-Check'
Wed Jun 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Coming out strongly against social media posts that claimed Bharat Biotech's Covaxin contains calf serum, the Union Health Ministry stressed that "facts have been twisted and misre...