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More than 2,000 Uttarakhand cops test positive, 90% of them got both doses
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
More than 2,000 Uttarakhand Police personnel tested positive for Covid-19 in the second wave and 93 per cent of them had received both doses of the vaccine before contracting the i...
10,000 Olympic Volunteers Quit Ahead Of Tokyo Games: Organisers
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Around 10,000 of 80,000 planned Tokyo 2020 Olympic volunteers have quit, organisers have revealed as they battle persistent doubts over the Games with just 50 days until the openin...
JBS: FBI says Russia-linked group hacked meat supplier
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Russian cyber-criminal group was behind a ransomware attack that has targeted the world's largest meat processing company, the FBI has said....
‘Won’t permit experimentation with defective ventilators’: Bombay High Court tells Centre
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Stating that it would not permit “experimentation of ventilators”, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday told the Central government that it can’t allow use of...
Mehul Choksi Denied Bail By Dominica Court In Illegal Entry Case
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Dominican court court today denied bail to Mehul Choksi - the fugitive diamond trader wanted over the ₹ 13,500 crore loan fraud case in India - for illegally entering into the Ca...
Covid: China's Sinovac vaccine gets WHO emergency approval
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved China's Sinovac Covid vaccine for emergency use....
No bids, UP extends global tender deadline again
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Failing to get a response from vaccine manufacturers, the Uttar Pradesh government has once again extended the last date of submission of bids for its global tender for procurement...
Caught On Camera, Horrific Assault Of Doctor By Family Of Covid Victim
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A doctor at a coronavirus facility in Assam's Hojai, around 140 kilometres from Guwahati, was on Tuesday mercilessly punched, kicked, and pounded with metal trash cans and bricks, ...
Huawei operating system coming to smartphones in Asia
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An update of HarmonyOS, the operating system developed by Huawei, means it will now be installed in a wider range of products, including its smartphones....
New IT Rules Not For Search Engine, Google Tells Court; Centre To Respond
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
US-based Google LLC has contended that India's new IT rules for online news publishers are not applicable to its search engine, and urged the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to set a...
"Kids With Covid Mostly Asymptomatic But...": Health Ministry Observations
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Cases of Covid in children are being keenly observed, the Union health ministry indicated on Tuesday amid speculation about a third wave possibly targeting them. ...
NSA spying row: US and Denmark pressed over allegations
Tue Jun 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
European powers have pressed the US and Denmark over reports the two worked together to spy on top European politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel....
1 crore people, 30 days: Uttar Pradesh to start vaccine drive today
Tue Jun 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
From Tuesday, the Uttar Pradesh government will launch ‘Mission June’ campaign, a massive vaccination campaign that aims to inoculate over one crore people in the state against Cov...
On 'Mission Choksi', Woman Who Heads CBI Bank Fraud Team
Tue Jun 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An eight-member multi-agency team from India is in Dominica to bring back fugitive Mehul Choksi, who is in jail there after an alleged escape attempt from Antigua, where he had bee...
China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu
Tue Jun 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
China has reported the first case of human infection with the H10N3 strain of bird flu from the country’s eastern Jiangsu province, China’s National Health Commission said on Tuesd...
BJP's "Feedback" Drive Before UP Polls Amid Concerns Over Yogi Adityanath
Tue Jun 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A series of meetings in Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP faces a critical election next year, signals the party's concern over criticism heaped on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's hand...
Father Of Bihar Girl, Who Cycled 1,200 Km For Him During Lockdown, Dies
Tue Jun 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Over a year after Jyoti Kumari cycled 1,200 kilometres from Gurgaon, near Delhi, to Bihar's Darbhanga with her injured father riding pillion during the national lockdown, the 15-ye...
China allows couples to have three children
Mon May 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
China has announced that it will allow each couple to have up to three children, marking the end of a strict two-child policy....
SC questions CoWin registration
Mon May 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Centre found itself in a difficult spot when the Supreme Court, on Monday, flagged “various flaws” in its vaccination policy, including the need of making CoWin registration ma...
"Time To Set Limits Of Sedition": Supreme Court Relief To Telugu Channels
Mon May 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court today put on hold Andhra Pradesh's action against two TV channels and said, "It's time we define limits of sedition."...