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Zomato Files For $1.11 Billion IPO As Food Delivery Surges In Pandemic Times
Wed Apr 28 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Food delivery startup Zomato, backed by China's Ant Group, has filed for an initial public offering of up to Rs. 82.5 billion ($1.11 billion) as consumers increasingly turn to orde...
"Please Save Her": Father's SOS For Baby Who Died After Hospital Wait
Wed Apr 28 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An infant died after a long wait for admission into a hospital in Andhra Pradesh's Vishakhapatnam last evening. She had reportedly tested positive for Covid and had difficulty brea...
Delhi adds makeshift crematoriums as deaths climb
Tue Apr 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Makeshift pyres are being built in crematoriums in India's capital Delhi as the city runs out of space to cremate its dead. Deaths have been steadily rising in India as a deadly se...
Pakistan deploys TROOPS to help civilian authorities cope with Covid-19 infections
Tue Apr 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
As rising Covid-19 infections threaten to collapse Pakistan’s healthcare system, Islamabad has deployed troops across the country, with particular attention to 16 major cities, in ...
MI6 head reveals that Russophrenia-stricken UK defense chiefs think Russia is both a ‘declining power’ AND their number one rival
Tue Apr 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The head of Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service has said that Russia is getting weaker and weaker as a country, while simultaneously warning that it poses a significant mili...
New documents show Soviets covered up Chernobyl plant flaws before disaster
Tue Apr 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl plant was a ticking time bomb for years before it melted down — but the government kept the nuclear facility running anyway....
'Not Stopping High Courts But Can't Be Silent Spectator': Supreme Court
Tue Apr 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Supreme Court today again clarified that while taking up the shortage of oxygen, medicines, vaccines and other supplies in the Covid crisis, it did not intend to stop High Cour...
Sharp rise in private jet demand as Indian businessmen make their UAE travel plans
Tue Apr 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Demand for private jets on the India-UAE routes has once again seen a boost after the temporary suspension on commercial flights from India....
"Dead Won't Come Back To Life If...": ML Khattar On Data Fudging Charge
Tue Apr 27 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today dubbed "pointless" allegations that his government was tinkering with the data on Covid-related deaths in his state to suppress the...
Covid: Countries send aid to ease India's oxygen emergency
Mon Apr 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
International efforts are under way to help India as the country suffers critical oxygen shortages amid a devastating surge in Covid cases. The UK has begun sending ventilators and...
U.S. Sends Vaccine Supplies to Help India Fight Its Devastating COVID-19 Surge – but No Vaccines Yet
Mon Apr 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The U.S. will send India raw materials for vaccines and step up financing aid for Covid-19 shot production, joining European countries in pledging to help stem the world’s biggest ...
Calls In UK To Publish Pharma Lobbying Messages As India WTO Move Blocked
Mon Apr 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
British lawmakers on Monday called on the government to publish all communications with pharmaceutical companies to understand if private lobbying influenced its opposition to a wa...
IPL 2021: Australian Players Adam Zampa And Kane Richardson Of RCB And Andrew Tye Of Rajasthan Royals, Pull Out Of Tournament
Mon Apr 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) players Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson have decided to return to Australia mid-way through the IPL for personal reasons, RCB said on Monday. "Adam...
Covid: India's super-rich pay over Dh500,000 for private jets to UK
Mon Apr 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India’s uber-wealthy paid an estimated 100,000 pounds (Dh511,000) for private jets to fly them to the UK before a travel ban was implemented on passengers from the country....
Supplying Oxygen To 800 Hospitals, Only Delhi Complaining: INOX In Court
Mon Apr 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Oxygen supplier INOX today told Delhi High Court that it is "supplying oxygen to 800 hospitals across the country and only the ones in Delhi" are complaining. This, Inox said, is h...
India Covid crisis: 14 countries that have imposed travel bans, suspensions
Mon Apr 26 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
With India buckling under a deadly second wave of the coronavirus crisis and hospitals in the country running out of beds and oxygen supplies, countries across the world have annou...
Indian hospitals turn away patients in COVID-19 ‘tsunami’
Sun Apr 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India’s coronavirus infections rose by 346,786 overnight, the health ministry said on Saturday, setting a new world record for the third consecutive day, as overwhelmed hospitals i...
"Centre Supporting States In Fight Against Covid": PM On "Mann Ki Baat"
Sun Apr 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the Centre is "fighting with all its might to support states in fight against coronavirus". As per news report of NDTV, speaking in his month...
US promises ‘additional support’ for Indian Covid-19 crisis amid calls to release unused vaccine doses to hardest-hit nations
Sun Apr 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
After repeatedly ducking queries about whether the US will lift a ban on the export of raw vaccine materials to India, the White House has vowed more support, but was vague on deta...
Iraq Covid hospital fire: At least 23 dead after 'oxygen tank explodes'
Sun Apr 25 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
At least 23 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad.As per news report of bbc.com, dozens of others were injur...