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4.12 Lakh Fresh Cases, 3,980 Deaths: India's Worst Covid Numbers Yet
Thu May 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Up to 3,980 people died of Covid in India the past 24 hours, the highest in a day so far, pushing total fatalities to 2,30,168.The country also set a new grim record in its daily C...
Prince blamed for shooting one of Europe's biggest bears
Thu May 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Environmental campaigners suspect a Liechtenstein prince shot dead probably the biggest bear alive in the EU on a hunting expedition in Romania in March. They say Prince Emanuel vo...
Coronavirus: How India descended into Covid-19 chaos
Thu May 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
On Monday, a senior official from India's federal government told journalists that there was no shortage of oxygen in Delhi or anywhere else in the country. As he spoke, several sm...
Big Pharma group up in arms after Biden signals support for profit-threatening patent waiver on Covid vaccines
Thu May 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An international body representing a who’s-who of Big Pharma firms has rejected a US-backed proposal to lift intellectual property rights for coronavirus vaccines, insisting the mo...
India's Competition Regulator Orders Antitrust Probe Into Tata Motors' Commercial Vehicle Business
Thu May 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered an antitrust investigation against the commercial vehicle business of Tata Motors Limited. As per news report of NDTV, there a...
Covid, Crime, Terrorism: US Reissues Travel Advisory On India
Thu May 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The US has reissued its travel advisory on India, urging its citizens not to travel to the country due to an unprecedented surge in the COVID-19 cases there....
Ajit Singh, Former Union Minister And RLD Chief, Dies Of COVID-19
Thu May 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Ajit Singh, Union Minister in several governments and one of India's senior most politicians, died on Thursday at 82. The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief had been battling Covid, his...
I Know What It Takes to Defeat Narendra Modi
Thu May 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
KOLKATA, India — I am a member of the Indian Parliament, and on Sunday, the political party I belong to, the All India Trinamool Congress, defeated the party of Prime Minister Nare...
India posts record daily COVID-19 deaths, one in four globally last week
Wed May 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India accounted for nearly half of the COVID-19 cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as the country’s coronavirus deaths rose by a r...
Covid: Reused nose swab scam busted in Indonesia airport
Wed May 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Several employees of a pharmaceutical company have been arrested in Indonesia for allegedly washing and reselling used Covid nasal swab test kits. Up to 9,000 passengers at an airp...
COVID scare at G7 meeting after Indian delegates test positive
Wed May 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting in London was hit by a COVID-19 scare on Wednesday when India's foreign minister and his entire team said they were self-isolating aft...
Covid cases at Everest base camp raise fears of serious outbreak
Wed May 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Mountaineers and authorities at Everest base camp in Nepal have told the BBC they are seeing rising numbers of climbers with Covid-19 symptoms and rising numbers of positive tests,...
Wrestler beaten to death outside Delhi stadium, police probe role of Olympic medalist
Wed May 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A 24-year-old wrestler was allegedly beaten to death, and his two friends were physically assaulted outside Chhatrasal stadium in North-West Delhi’s Model Town area on late Tuesday...
"You Don't Stop Elections In A Place Like India": S Jaishankar Amid Covid
Wed May 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Amid global criticism over political campaigns when Covid cases were exploding in the country, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has offered this justification - "You don't stop electi...
Gujarat: Flouting covid rules, hundreds of devotees take out religious procession; 23 booked
Wed May 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A day after a video emerged of hundreds of women devotees taking out a religious procession in Navapara village of Sanand taluka in Ahmedabad rural, the police Wednesday booked 23 ...
IPL 2021 postponed due to COVID-19 scare
Tue May 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The BCCI has decided to suspend the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL) for the time being. As per news report of Indianexpress, the cricket board office bearers went into a huddle on...
Kangana Ranaut’s Twitter account suspended permanently
Tue May 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Actor Kangana Ranaut’s Twitter account has been ‘permanently suspended for repeated violation of Twitter rules’, a company spokesperson has said. The move came after the actor comm...
Mexico City rail overpass collapses onto road, killing at least 23
Tue May 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
At least 23 people were killed and 65 were hospitalized when a railway overpass and train collapsed onto a busy road in Mexico City on Monday night, crushing cars under fallen carr...
Anger rises as coronavirus rages in Varanasi
Tue May 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The region around Varanasi, one of the holiest cities in the world for Hindus, is among the worst affected by the second wave of coronavirus sweeping India....
PM Calls Bengal Governor, Expresses Concern Over Post-Poll Violence
Tue May 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Prime Minister Narendra Modi dialed the Governor of West Bengal to discuss the political violence in the state and deteriorating law and order situation following the counting of v...