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WHO's Top Scientist On Factors Behind India's Covid Explosion
Sun May 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Soumya Swaminathan warned that "the epidemiological features that we see in India today do indicate that it's an extremely rapidly spreading variant"....
Delhi lockdown extended by another week; metro services to remain suspended
Sun May 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Delhi first announced a week-long lockdown this year on April 19. It has been extended every Sunday since, as cases and positivity rate refused to dip....
China says Long March 5B rocket BURNED UP over Indian Ocean near Maldives
Sun May 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The out-of-control Long March 5B rocket that so fascinated the Western media re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean and burned up, the Chinese space engineering agency...
COVID-19 Virus Airborne, Can Spread Beyond 6 Feet: Top US Medical Body
Sun May 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The risk for infection decreases with increasing distance from the source and increasing time after exhalation, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
Kabul attack: Blasts near school leave more than 50 dead
Sun May 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Blasts close to a secondary school in the Afghan capital Kabul have left at least 50 people dead and more than 100 injured, officials say....
PM Dials 4 Chief Ministers To Discuss Covid Situation In Their States
Sat May 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke with four Chief Ministers in separate phone calls and discussed the coronavirus situation in their states, government sources said. He dial...
Tried To Capture Bengal, Nearly Destroyed India: Mamata Banerjee On Modi Government
Sat May 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today that the COVID-19 crisis in the country was the result of the Centre "not doing any work" in the last six months as Union ministers and le...
COVID-19 surge | Supreme Court orders immediate de-congestion of prisons
Sat May 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court has turned a humanitarian eye on the over four-lakh prison population inside overcrowded jails even as the second wave of the pandemic continues its devastating r...
Active caseload thrice last year’s peak, a lone doctor struggles to cope with flood of patients in Saharanpur
Sat May 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The patient is weak and gasping for breath, Dr V K Sharma can barely hear him speak. But he puts his hand on the patient’s chest, checks the makeshift saline drip on a rickety pole...
Al-Aqsa mosque: Dozens hurt in Jerusalem clashes
Sat May 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
At least 163 Palestinians and six Israeli police officers have been hurt in clashes in Jerusalem, Palestinian medics and Israeli police say....
Indian expat spends $55,000 to fly with family on private jet from Kerala to UAE
Sat May 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An Indian businessman has spent around $55,000 (Dh202,290) to fly with his family, including his newly married daughter and her husband, from India to the UAE on a private jet due ...
Cryptocurrency investors should be prepared to lose all their money – Bank of England
Sat May 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Digital currencies “have no intrinsic value,” according to Bank of England (BOE) Governor Andrew Bailey. He warned that people who invest in crypto should be prepared to lose all t...
Covid hits rural India: cases and deaths quadruple
Sat May 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A disconcerting feature of the second wave of Covid-19 is the surge in cases in rural India. Compared with the first peak in September last year, the number of cases in India’s hin...
SC refuses to intervene in Karnataka HC order on increased oxygen quota to state
Fri May 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the Karnataka High Court’s order asking the central government to increase the state’s daily quota of liquid medical oxygen fr...
Covid: Concern increases over India variant in UK
Fri May 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Public health experts have recommended one version of the Indian coronavirus variant be made a "variant of concern" in the UK, the BBC has been told....
"Don't Force Us To...": Supreme Court To Centre On Delhi Oxygen Supply
Fri May 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The central government has to supply 700 metric tonnes of medical oxygen to Delhi every day till further orders, the Supreme Court said this morning, as top hospitals in the nation...
India Covid aid: Is emergency relief reaching those in need?
Fri May 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
As India's devastating Covid-19 crisis mounted last month, countries around the world began sending emergency medical supplies to help stem the surge....
"Try Listening, Too": Jharkhand Chief Minister To PM After Phone Call
Fri May 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a phone-call with him on the Covid situation in his state has drawn sharp and varied reactions....
India adds over 4.14 lakh fresh Covid cases, 3,915 casualties in a day
Fri May 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
With a record 4,14,188 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases climbed to 2,14,91,598, while the active cases crossed the 36-lakh ...
India Asks State Banks To Withdraw Cash Abroad So Cairn Cannot Seize It
Fri May 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India has asked state-run banks to withdraw funds from their foreign currency accounts abroad, two government officials and a banker said, as New Delhi fears Cairn Energy may try t...