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Delhi's 'Khan Chacha' Restaurant Owner Arrested In Oxygen Scam Case
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Delhi-based businessman Navneet Kalra, accused of selling oxygen concentrators at massively inflated prices, has been arrested from a farmhouse in neighbouring Gurgaon....
India's Covid crisis hits Covax vaccine-sharing scheme
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The international scheme to ensure equal access to Covid-19 vaccines is 140 million doses short because of India's continuing Covid crisis....
Top Virologist Shahid Jameel Quits Covid Panel After Criticising Government
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Senior virologist Shahid Jameel has resigned from a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government to detect variants of the coronavirus, he told NDTV on Sunday, days after ...
IDF jets launch ‘extensive attacks’ on Gaza as violence enters 2nd week
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Dozens of loud explosions could be heard throughout the Gaza Strip as the IDF carried out another round of “extensive attacks on terrorist targets,” with ongoing violence between I...
Microsoft conducted probe on Bill Gates’s involvement with employee
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Microsoft Corp. conducted an investigation into co-founder Bill Gates’s involvement with an employee almost two decades ago after it was informed in 2019 of his attempt to start a ...
Tauktae intensifies to ‘Very Severe Cyclone’, to cross near Porbandar on May 18
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Cyclone Taukate has obtained its maximum intensity in the wee hours of Sunday and has now become a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (wind speed of 118 to 166 km / hr)....
India Sees 3.11 Lakh Fresh Covid Cases, 4,077 Deaths
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India logged 3.11 lakh fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, taking the overall caseload to 2.46 crore. The country recorded 4,077 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total n...
Short-supply Covid vaccines outliers in govt’s spirited price cap push
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An enduring feature of India’s pharmaceutical regulatory regime has been its intervention in regulating prices of essential medicines — something that the NDA government has progre...
Israel Gaza conflict: Netanyahu vows to continue strikes
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to "continue to respond forcefully" to rocket attacks as conflict with Palestinians in Gaza enters a seventh day.Israeli air str...
Heavy rains across Kerala as Cyclone Tauktae intensifies
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
With the deep depression developed over the Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea intensifying into cyclonic storm Tauktae, Kerala continues to witness heavy rain on Saturday morning. A r...
Heavy rains across Kerala as Cyclone Tauktae intensifies
Sat May 15 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
With the deep depression developed over the Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea intensifying into cyclonic storm Tauktae, Kerala continues to witness heavy rain on Saturday morning. A r...
Israeli strike on Gaza kills 7, unrest spreads to West Bank
Sat May 15 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The latest outburst of violence began in Jerusalem and has spread across the region, with Jewish-Arab clashes and rioting in mixed cities of Israel....
Cairn Energy sues Air India in U.S. court to enforce $1.2 billion arbitration award
Sat May 15 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The move ratchets up pressure on the Union govt to pay the sum of $1.2 billion plus interest and costs that Cairn Energy was awarded by an arbitration tribunal in December...
Australian Flight Arrives Half Empty from India
Sat May 15 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Australia has carried out its first repatriation flight from India after ending its controversial travel ban from the Covid-hit country....
AIIMS chief Dr Guleria warns of surge in fungal infection in Covid patients
Sat May 15 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria Saturday warned doctors to brace for cases of mucormycosis, a rare fungal infection, across the country, including among Covid-19 positive persons...
"Wouldn't Refer To It As Cover-Up": Dr Fauci On Covishield Dose Gap
Fri May 14 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Dramatically ramping up COVID-19 vaccination drive is key to ending the crisis in India and extending the gap between two doses of Covishield is a "reasonable approach," White Hous...
Israel intensifies attacks in Gaza as conflict enters fifth day
Fri May 14 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Israeli military has intensified its assault on Gaza, as Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets into Israel on the fifth day of hostilities.Israel's army said air and g...
Covid Patient Raped By Nurse In Bhopal Hospital, Died In 24 Hours: Police
Fri May 14 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A coronavirus patient was raped by a male nurse at a government hospital in Bhopal and died within 24 hours, the police said on Thursday, in a shocking incident made public only af...
Nightmare runs on in Goa hospital: 15 more die as oxygen dips
Fri May 14 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A DAY after the High Court of Bombay in Goa directed the state government to ensure there were no more deaths due to oxygen issues, Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), the sta...
India resists ‘community transmission’ tag despite soaring cases
Fri May 14 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Inspite of adding the highest number of cases in the world every day, India continues to label itself as a country with no community transmission (CT), opting instead for the lower...