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India reports 4529 deaths, highest so far
Wed May 19 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India reported 4529 deaths on Tuesday, the highest so far in a day. Maharashtra reported over 1,300 deaths, nearly half of which were more than a week old. Karnataka reported 525 d...
Myanmar activists say more than 800 killed by security forces since coup
Tue May 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
More than 800 people have been killed by Myanmar’s security forces since a wave of protests broke out across the country after the military seized power in a coup in February, an a...
UP BJP MLA: Better not to speak or will face sedition charge
Tue May 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
In another instance of the ruling party’s leaders raising questions on the state government’s handling of the Covid situation, Rakesh Rathore, the BJP MLA from Sitapur (Sadar), sai...
IDF shells Lebanon after claiming rockets were launched toward Israeli territory
Tue May 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Israeli military said it fired artillery shells into Lebanon in response to several rockets allegedly fired from across the border. Tel Aviv claimed none of the projectiles rea...
India Records Highest One-Day Covid Deaths
Tue May 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India saw another grim record with 4,329 Covid patients dying in the last 24 hours even as daily cases dropped to 2.63 lakh. This is the second consecutive day that the country rep...
Cyclone Tauktae weakens to ‘Very Severe’ storm
Tue May 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Extremely Severe Cyclone Tauktae, which hit the Gujarat coast last evening, has weakened into a ‘Very Severe’ category even as it rages through southern Gujarat on Tuesday morn...
Tension In Haryana District After 27-Year-Old Kidnapped, Beaten To Death
Tue May 18 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Tension has reigned in Haryana's Nuh district since Sunday after a 27-year-old gym instructor's body was found hours after his kidnapping by people mostly from his own village. The...
Delhi's 'Khan Chacha' Restaurant Owner Arrested In Oxygen Scam Case
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Delhi-based businessman Navneet Kalra, accused of selling oxygen concentrators at massively inflated prices, has been arrested from a farmhouse in neighbouring Gurgaon....
India's Covid crisis hits Covax vaccine-sharing scheme
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The international scheme to ensure equal access to Covid-19 vaccines is 140 million doses short because of India's continuing Covid crisis....
Top Virologist Shahid Jameel Quits Covid Panel After Criticising Government
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Senior virologist Shahid Jameel has resigned from a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government to detect variants of the coronavirus, he told NDTV on Sunday, days after ...
IDF jets launch ‘extensive attacks’ on Gaza as violence enters 2nd week
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Dozens of loud explosions could be heard throughout the Gaza Strip as the IDF carried out another round of “extensive attacks on terrorist targets,” with ongoing violence between I...
Microsoft conducted probe on Bill Gates’s involvement with employee
Mon May 17 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Microsoft Corp. conducted an investigation into co-founder Bill Gates’s involvement with an employee almost two decades ago after it was informed in 2019 of his attempt to start a ...
Tauktae intensifies to ‘Very Severe Cyclone’, to cross near Porbandar on May 18
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Cyclone Taukate has obtained its maximum intensity in the wee hours of Sunday and has now become a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (wind speed of 118 to 166 km / hr)....
India Sees 3.11 Lakh Fresh Covid Cases, 4,077 Deaths
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India logged 3.11 lakh fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, taking the overall caseload to 2.46 crore. The country recorded 4,077 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total n...
Short-supply Covid vaccines outliers in govt’s spirited price cap push
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
An enduring feature of India’s pharmaceutical regulatory regime has been its intervention in regulating prices of essential medicines — something that the NDA government has progre...
Israel Gaza conflict: Netanyahu vows to continue strikes
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to "continue to respond forcefully" to rocket attacks as conflict with Palestinians in Gaza enters a seventh day.Israeli air str...
Heavy rains across Kerala as Cyclone Tauktae intensifies
Sun May 16 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
With the deep depression developed over the Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea intensifying into cyclonic storm Tauktae, Kerala continues to witness heavy rain on Saturday morning. A r...
Heavy rains across Kerala as Cyclone Tauktae intensifies
Sat May 15 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
With the deep depression developed over the Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea intensifying into cyclonic storm Tauktae, Kerala continues to witness heavy rain on Saturday morning. A r...
Israeli strike on Gaza kills 7, unrest spreads to West Bank
Sat May 15 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The latest outburst of violence began in Jerusalem and has spread across the region, with Jewish-Arab clashes and rioting in mixed cities of Israel....
Cairn Energy sues Air India in U.S. court to enforce $1.2 billion arbitration award
Sat May 15 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The move ratchets up pressure on the Union govt to pay the sum of $1.2 billion plus interest and costs that Cairn Energy was awarded by an arbitration tribunal in December...