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Fuel prices hit fresh record high
Tue Jun 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Prices of petrol and diesel were hiked on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, after a gap of one day, touching fresh record highs across the country. In the national capital, the petrol price ...
US Has "Wrong" Expectation For Dialogue: Kim Jong Un's Sister
Tue Jun 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Tuesday that Washington had "wrong" expectations for dialogue with Pyongyang and was facing "greater disappointment",...
UP Police arrests two from Delhi for ‘hundreds of conversions’
Tue Jun 22 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested two clerics from Delhi for allegedly converting more than a thousand people to Islam in the state by luring them with mone...
Top LeT militant among 3 killed in encounter with security forces in J&K’s Baramulla
Mon Jun 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
One of the most wanted militants Mudasir Pandit was among three terrorists killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Sopore area of Baramulla district in Jammu and K...
US Navy Tests Warship's Metal With Megablast
Mon Jun 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The US Navy has started a series of tests on its newest and most advanced aircraft carrier by detonating powerful explosions to determine whether the ship is ready for war....
Saudi Aramco representative may get inducted to Reliance Industries board: HSBC Global Research
Mon Jun 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Saudi Aramco chairman and Governor of the Kingdom’s wealth fund Public Investment Fund, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, may be inducted on the board of Reliance Industries Ltd, a precursor to a...
Case Against Journalist Who Accused Ram Temple Trust Member Of Land Grab
Mon Jun 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The police in Uttar Pradesh have listed a staggering 18 charges against a journalist and two others who flagged an alleged land grab case. The case was filed on a complaint by the ...
Tokyo Olympics: Ugandan tests positive for Covid in Japan
Mon Jun 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A member of Uganda's Olympic squad has become the first to test positive for Covid-19 on arrival in Japan for the competition due to start on 23 July....
Autonomous institute objected but Centre pushed it to help Ramdev get school board
Mon Jun 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Centre overruled objections from an autonomous institute, and changed a crucial agenda item in its council meeting records, to push the bid by Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth ...
Second wave: 60% addition to bad loans from MSMEs
Mon Jun 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The second wave of Covid has thwarted the recovery process underway across sectors, with the lockdowns in states and the spread of disease overwhelmingly impacting the MSME and ser...
Emergency shutdown reported at Iranian nuclear plant
Mon Jun 21 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant has been shut down, and will remain offline for “three to four days,” state TV reported. The shutdown is the first in the plant’s 10 years of ope...
None can change neighbours…can coexist, in interest of all: Taliban
Sun Jun 20 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Amid the withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan ahead of the September 11 deadline set by US President Joe Biden, and India’s policy on the rapidly changing ground situa...
Navjot Sidhu's Wife Slams Punjab Government Over Jobs To MLAs' Sons
Sun Jun 20 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Former legislator Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Saturday criticised the Punjab government's decision of giving government jobs to sons of two ruling party legislators, saying only merit sho...
Sebi puts on pause Rs 4,000-cr Carlyle, PNB Housing deal
Sun Jun 20 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
In a letter issued to PNB Housing Finance (PNBHF) late Friday evening, the capital markets regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), has effectively put on pause it...
"Absolutely Not": Pak On Allowing Military Bases To US, Says Report
Sun Jun 20 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has made it clear that the country would "absolutely not" permit any of its bases or use of its territory to the United States for any kind of ac...
Four snails & 90 clams could be killed in upcoming hypersonic missile test, US Air Force warns
Sun Jun 20 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The US Air Force has warned that a much-anticipated test of its new air-launched hypersonic missile could kill four snails and 90 clams. No such precise estimates were offered for ...
India, Pak NSAs to be at SCO meeting amid fragile LoC peace, Afghan flux
Sun Jun 20 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Four months after India and Pakistan decided to adhere to the ceasefire pact along the Line of Control (LoC), National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is likely to be in the same room ...
Iran election: Israel voices 'grave concern' over Ebrahim Raisi
Sun Jun 20 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Israel has said the international community should have grave concerns about the election of Iran's new president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi....
Can't Pay 4 Lakh Compensation For Covid Victims: Centre To Supreme Court
Sun Jun 20 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Families of Covid victims cannot be paid a compensation of Rs.4 lakh as it applies to natural disasters only, the government told the Supreme Court today adding that states cannot ...
WTC Final: New Zealand Hit Back As India Lose Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill Before Lunch
Sat Jun 19 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill shared a 62-run partnership before both departed in quick succession just before Lunch to bring New Zealand back in the game....