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China Hits Alibaba With Huge $2.78 Billion Fine For Market Abuse
Sat Apr 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Chinese regulators have hit e-commerce giant Alibaba with a massive 18.2 billion yuan ($2.78 billion) fine over practices deemed to be an abuse of the company's dominant market pos...
Trinamool Alleges 5 Shot Dead In Clashes, Election Commission Seeks Report
Sat Apr 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Five Trinamool Congress workers have been shot dead in Bengal's Cooch Behar, the ruling party alleged this afternoon amid polling in 44 seats of the state for the fourth phase of a...
Man Claiming To Be At Capitol Riot Wanted To Bomb Amazon Data Center: FBI
Sat Apr 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Texas man who boasted about being on the U.S. Capitol steps during the Jan. 6 insurrection has been arrested by the FBI and accused of planning to detonate a bomb at a data cente...
71 Vaccination Centres In Mumbai Shut Due To Shortage, Protests
Fri Apr 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
More than 70 vaccination centres have shut down in Mumbai after running out of Covid vaccine doses....
US Navy Holds Op Inside India's Exclusive Economic Zone "Without Consent"
Fri Apr 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
In a statement being looked at closely by the Indian government, the US Navy's 7th Fleet has said it conducted Freedom of Navigation Operations within India's exclusive economic zo...
Indian Techie, Wife Found Dead In US; Daughter, 4, Seen Crying On Balcony
Fri Apr 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An Indian couple was found dead at their home in the US after neighbours saw their four-year-old daughter crying alone in the balcony of their house, family sources said on Friday....
1.31 Lakh COVID-19 Cases In India In New Daily High
Fri Apr 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India has set another record of daily Covid cases with 1,31,968 infections in the last 24 hours, pushing the total case count to over 1.3 crore. The surge, much steeper than last y...
He Had $20 Billion, Then Lost It All In Two Days
Fri Apr 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The sudden implosion of Bill Hwang's Archegos Capital Management in late March is one of the most spectacular failures in modern financial history: No individual has lost so much m...
26 Mumbai Vaccine Centres Shut, Maharashtra Flags After Centre's Charge
Thu Apr 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Twenty-six vaccination centres have been shut in Mumbai, Maharashtra said today, adding that they are waiting for more vaccine doses from the Centre and the Union health ministry h...
Mysterious Plumes of Methane Gas Appear Over Bangladesh: "It's A Signal"
Thu Apr 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
One of the countries most vulnerable to climate change has also been revealed as a major contributor of methane, a greenhouse gas that's about 80 times more potent in its first two...
Video: EU President, Only Woman In Meet, Left Standing, Then Takes Sofa
Thu Apr 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was taken aback to find her fellow top EU official taking the only chair available next to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan when ...
Tesla Scouts For Showroom Space In India, Hires Executive For Lobbying: Report
Thu Apr 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Tesla Inc is scouting for locations to open showrooms in three Indian cities and has hired an executive to lead its lobbying and business efforts ahead of its planned entry into th...
1,26,789 Fresh COVID-19 Cases In India In New One-Day Record
Thu Apr 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India posted 1,26,789 fresh Covid cases, setting another grim one-day record as the county battles the second wave of infections. 685 deaths in the last 24 hour pushed the total de...
Maharashtra Vaccine SOS, Stocks Only For 3 Days, Some Centres Had To Shut
Wed Apr 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Parts of Maharashtra may run out of Covid vaccines in three days and the Centre has been asked for more, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope told NDTV today as cities like Mumbai fla...
Delhi Woman Runs Over Elderly Couple, Claims She Was Distracted: Police
Wed Apr 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A 79-year-old retired government official and his wife were run over by a car at Dwarka in western Delhi, police said on Tuesday....
1.15 Lakh Daily Covid Cases In India, Biggest Rise So Far
Wed Apr 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India recorded over 1.15 lakh new Covid cases in the last 24 hours for first time since the beginning of the pandemic, setting an unprecedented, grim record during the second wave....
Gangster-Turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari Brought Back To UP Jail From Punjab
Wed Apr 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
After spending over two years in a Punjab prison, gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was brought back to Banda jail early on Wednesday morning....
7 Deaths Among UK AstraZeneca Jab Recipients After Blood Clots: Regulator
Wed Apr 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The UK medical regulator said Saturday that out of 30 people who suffered rare blood clots after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, seven have died. The British acknowledgem...
Delhi 10 pm To 5 am Night Curfew From Today. See Who Is Exempt
Tue Apr 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Delhi today imposed a night curfew till April 30 to tackle a steep rise in Covid infections and a day after the country reported over 1 lakh cases in a single day. The "sudden incr...
US Move To Hit India, 5 Others For Taxing Internet-Based Companies
Tue Apr 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The U.S. is pressing ahead with plans to hit six nations that tax Internet-based companies with retaliatory tariffs that could total almost $1 billion annually....