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Delhi to receive Sputnik V vaccine after June 20, says CM Kejriwal
Mon May 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that the national capital will receive its first consignment of Sputnik V vaccine after June 20....
Maharashtra Preps For 3rd Wave As Covid Hits 8,000 Children In 1 District
Mon May 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
With more than 8,000 children catching the coronavirus in the month of May in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar, the state has started taking extra steps to minimise the impact of a possibl...
Appointed grievance officer as per new IT rules, Twitter tells Delhi High Court
Mon May 31 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Delhi High Court on Monday granted three weeks time to Twitter to put on record that it has appointed a Resident Grievance Officer. The court issued a notice to the social medi...
"Achievements Of Past 7 Years Are Those Of The Nation": PM Modi
Sun May 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Several people from various places have been writing in to thank the nation for their village having finally received power and road connection after 70 years of independence, Prim...
10 Telangana Hospitals Stripped of Licence To Treat Covid Patients
Sun May 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Complaints over excessive billing, mismanagement has led to cancellation of 10 Telangana hospitals' licences to treat COVID-19 patients....
Indian student gets 10-year UAE Golden Visa
Sun May 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An Indian student has received the UAE’s coveted 10-year Golden Visa, which is mostly reserved for prominent global personalities, for her merit and excellent academic credentials,...
Covid: Vietnam detects new UK-Indian variant, health officials say
Sun May 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Vietnam has detected a Covid variant that appears to be a combination of the Indian and UK variants and can spread quickly by air, officials say....
Shocking Video Shows Covid Patient's Body Being Thrown In River In UP
Sun May 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A shocking video of a body of Covid patient being thrown in a river has surfaced from Uttar Pradesh, where thousands of bodies buried in shallow graves by the Ganga and some dumped...
India sent private jet to Dominica carrying Choksi deportation documents: Antiguan PM
Sun May 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India sent a private jet to Dominica carrying documents related to the deportation of fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, wanted in a Rs 13,500 crore bank loan fraud case, Prime Min...
India: Google, Facebook, WhatsApp complied with IT rules; Twitter yet to comply
Sat May 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Except for Twitter, other major global social media outfits including Google, Facebook and WhatsApp have agreed to appoint statutory officers in line with the new guidelines issued...
Bank frauds tell two tales: While PSBs stem cases, private lenders see 35% surge
Sat May 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
While public sector banks managed to bring down the number of frauds, private and foreign banks have reported a surge in frauds for the year 2020-21. ...
"We Are Living This Hell": Delhi High Court On Black Fungus Drug Shortage
Sat May 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
"We are living this hell. Everyone is living this hell. It's a situation where we want to help but we are helpless," the Delhi High Court lamented on Friday while hearing pleas on ...
Fuel prices touch new highs; petrol crosses Rs 100 a litre in Mumbai
Sat May 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Petrol price on Saturday crossed the Rs 100-a-litre mark in Mumbai after the 15th increase in fuel prices this month....
Caught On CCTV, Doctor Couple In Rajasthan Stopped, Shot Dead in Car
Sat May 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A doctor couple in Rajasthan's Bharatpur was shot dead in a car yesterday by two people riding a bike at a busy crossing in the city. The incident was captured in a chilling CCTV f...
Practice of bodies being dumped in rivers prevalent in UP, state official tells Centre
Sat May 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Uttar Pradesh government was aware that the practice of dumping dead bodies in rivers was prevalent in the state, even before the visuals of decomposed corpses floating in the ...
No fresh supply of 2,000 notes in FY21, 500 denomination highest in volume
Fri May 28 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The RBI on Thursday said there was no fresh supply of Rs 2,000 notes in 2020-21 as in the previous year. However, it increased the supply of Rs 20 notes from 13,390 lakh pieces in ...
2 Accused in Bengaluru Rape Case Shot In The Leg Trying To Escape: Police
Fri May 28 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Two of the six people arrested in the Bengaluru rape and assault case were shot in the leg today when they allegedly tried to escape from the crime scene....
Twitter fears for freedom of expression in India
Fri May 28 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Twitter has expressed concern over freedom of expression in India, days after police visited its offices....
Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai jailed again for pro-democracy protests
Fri May 28 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for participating in an unauthorised assembly in 2019....
Mehul Choksi held ‘fleeing’, lawyer contests not citizen, can’t be sent to India
Fri May 28 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A day after fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi was arrested in the island nation of Dominica, Gaston Browne, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, said he had requested Domi...