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White House defends Dr Fauci over lab leak emails
Fri Jun 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The White House has defended the president's top coronavirus adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, amid scrutiny of his recently released work emails....
Kamala Harris calls PM Narendra Modi on US vaccines for India; first set is one day’s dose
Fri Jun 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Days after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met key officials in the Biden administration in Washington DC, the US announced Thursday that it will distribute Covid-19 vaccine...
'Mission Choksi' Team Returns As Court Keeps Him In Dominica Till July
Fri Jun 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The multi-agency team tasked with bringing back Mehul Choksi from Dominica is headed home - without the fugitive jeweller - after the Caribbean nation's High Court adjourned his ha...
Australian media fined A$1.1m over trial reports
Fri Jun 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A court has fined 12 Australian media groups a total of A$1.1m (£600,000; $840,000) for their coverage of Cardinal George Pell's now-overturned conviction in a sexual abuse case....
Nearly 3,000 Madhya Pradesh Doctors Resign After Court Says Strike "Illegal"
Fri Jun 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday directed the striking junior doctors in the state to resume their duties within 24 hours but the protesting medicos remained defiant and n...
‘At-risk’ policy change: Govt puts money on new-platform Covid-19 vaccine
Fri Jun 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The decision to book 30 crore doses of Biological E’s Covid-19 vaccine before it has launched marks a major shift in the government’s stance on procurement for mass immunisation ag...
Israel opposition parties agree to form new unity government
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Israeli opposition parties have reached an agreement to form a new government that would end Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year tenure as prime minister....
More than 2,000 Uttarakhand cops test positive, 90% of them got both doses
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
More than 2,000 Uttarakhand Police personnel tested positive for Covid-19 in the second wave and 93 per cent of them had received both doses of the vaccine before contracting the i...
10,000 Olympic Volunteers Quit Ahead Of Tokyo Games: Organisers
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Around 10,000 of 80,000 planned Tokyo 2020 Olympic volunteers have quit, organisers have revealed as they battle persistent doubts over the Games with just 50 days until the openin...
JBS: FBI says Russia-linked group hacked meat supplier
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Russian cyber-criminal group was behind a ransomware attack that has targeted the world's largest meat processing company, the FBI has said....
‘Won’t permit experimentation with defective ventilators’: Bombay High Court tells Centre
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Stating that it would not permit “experimentation of ventilators”, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday told the Central government that it can’t allow use of...
Mehul Choksi Denied Bail By Dominica Court In Illegal Entry Case
Thu Jun 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Dominican court court today denied bail to Mehul Choksi - the fugitive diamond trader wanted over the ₹ 13,500 crore loan fraud case in India - for illegally entering into the Ca...
Covid: China's Sinovac vaccine gets WHO emergency approval
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved China's Sinovac Covid vaccine for emergency use....
No bids, UP extends global tender deadline again
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Failing to get a response from vaccine manufacturers, the Uttar Pradesh government has once again extended the last date of submission of bids for its global tender for procurement...
Caught On Camera, Horrific Assault Of Doctor By Family Of Covid Victim
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A doctor at a coronavirus facility in Assam's Hojai, around 140 kilometres from Guwahati, was on Tuesday mercilessly punched, kicked, and pounded with metal trash cans and bricks, ...
Huawei operating system coming to smartphones in Asia
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An update of HarmonyOS, the operating system developed by Huawei, means it will now be installed in a wider range of products, including its smartphones....
New IT Rules Not For Search Engine, Google Tells Court; Centre To Respond
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
US-based Google LLC has contended that India's new IT rules for online news publishers are not applicable to its search engine, and urged the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to set a...
"Kids With Covid Mostly Asymptomatic But...": Health Ministry Observations
Wed Jun 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Cases of Covid in children are being keenly observed, the Union health ministry indicated on Tuesday amid speculation about a third wave possibly targeting them. ...
NSA spying row: US and Denmark pressed over allegations
Tue Jun 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
European powers have pressed the US and Denmark over reports the two worked together to spy on top European politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel....
1 crore people, 30 days: Uttar Pradesh to start vaccine drive today
Tue Jun 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
From Tuesday, the Uttar Pradesh government will launch ‘Mission June’ campaign, a massive vaccination campaign that aims to inoculate over one crore people in the state against Cov...