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Madhya Pradesh Farmers Spend Night In Queue As Bank Reopens After Days
Fri May 28 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Farmers in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha queued up outside a bank through Wednesday night in order to withdraw money. The District Cooperative Bank had been closed for two weeks after ...
What Google's Sundar Pichai Said On India's New Digital Rules
Thu May 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Google is committed to complying with local laws and engages constructively with governments as they scrutinise and adopt regulatory frameworks to keep pace with the fast evolving ...
Working for earliest possible import of Pfizer vaccine: V K Paul
Thu May 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The head of India’s Covid-19 task force on Thursday said that Pfizer has “indicated vaccine availability” of its mRNA vaccine and that both the Indian government and the US firm ar...
Zydus Cadila Seeks Human Trial Approval For COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail
Thu May 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Zydus Cadila has sought regulatory approval for clinical trials of its antibody cocktail to treat mild COVID-19, as India grapples with a shortage of medicines and vaccines needed ...
Concerned About Employees In India, Intimidation Tactics, Says Twitter
Thu May 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Twitter today broke its silence on new digital rules in the middle of its clash with the government over the "Congress toolkit" row and flagged concern over "the potential threat t...
Mehul Choksi arrested in Dominica, family says relieved he is safe
Thu May 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Mehul Choksi’s arrest in Dominica has brought relief to the family, his lawyer Vijay Aggarwal said Thursday. Speaking to The Indian Express, Aggarwal said the family was relieved t...
Delhi HC directs Centre to ‘seriously’ consider import duty waiver on Amphotericin B
Thu May 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Centre to seriously consider waiving the duty being imposed on the import of Amphotericin B, the drug used for the treatment of Black Fung...
Policing, Spying, Security: New CBI Chief Subodh Jaiswal Has Done It All
Wed May 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
On January 8 this year, when he took charge of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Subodh Kumar Jaiswal planned to expand the paramilitary force's areas of expertise and ...
2.08 Lakh New Covid Cases In India, Highest Testing In A Day
Wed May 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India set a new record with the highest number of Covid tests conducted in the last 24 hours at 22.17 lakh. The country registered 2.08 lakh fresh coronavirus infections and 4,157 ...
Cyclone Yaas Hits North Odisha, Bengal On High Alert
Wed May 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Cyclone Yaas will cross the coast south of Odisha's Balasore, which is around 150 km south of Kolkata, within the next two hours, with winds up to 140 km per hour and gusts of 155 ...
China overtakes Germany as UK’s top import market
Wed May 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
China has overtaken Germany to become the UK's biggest single import market for the first time since records began....
Four Haryana-based criminals, who assaulted wrestler along with Sushil Kumar, arrested
Wed May 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Four Haryana-based criminals have been arrested in connection with the murder of 23-year-old former junior national wrestling champion, Sagar Dhankhar. Police said they all came to...
WhatsApp moves Delhi HC against traceability clause, says it is unconstitutional
Wed May 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Faced with a deadline to comply with the Indian government’s new rules for social media intermediaries, which needs them to make provisions for “identification of the first origina...
Frightening Pics Of Tugboat In Rough Seas Before It Was Sunk By Cyclone
Tue May 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Only two of 13 people on board tugboat Varaprada - which sank off the coast of Maharashtra as Cyclone Taukate hit on the evening of May 17 - survived...
'Toolkit' Row: 2 Congress Leaders Get Delhi Police Notice To Join Probe
Tue May 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Toolkit row: Rajiv Gowda and Rohan Gupta, who filed a complaint against Sambit Patra accusing him of sharing a faked "Congress toolkit", have been asked by the police to join the i...
Facebook Says "Aim To Comply" As New Digital Rules Deadline Ends Today
Tue May 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
"We aim to comply with the provisions of the IT rules and continue to discuss a few of the issues which need more engagement with the government," a Facebook spokesperson said....
Second Cyclone In 10 Days To Slam Into India Amid Covid Misery
Tue May 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Cyclone Yaas, equivalent to a category 3 hurricane, will cause heavy rains in West Bengal and Odisha, with wind speeds as high as 185 kilometers per hour, says the weather departme...
"Am Confessing...": Belarus Blogger Arrested From Diverted Plane In Video
Tue May 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
In a video posted online, the detained blogger, Roman Protasevich, 26, said he was in good health, being held in a pretrial detention facility in Minsk....
Arrested Wrestler Sushil Kumar Had Murder Filmed To Spread Fear: Cops
Mon May 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar, arrested in a murder case, had a video of the incident recorded to terrorise the wrestling circuit in the city, the police said on Sunday, as it rec...
India’s Covid-19 death toll crosses 3-lakh mark
Mon May 24 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India’s Covid-19 death toll went passed the 3-lakh mark on Monday after 4,454 people died due to the virus in the last 24 hours. This makes India only the third country after the U...