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"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...
Bill And Melinda Gates To Divorce With $146 Billion At Stake
Tue May 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Bill and Melinda Gates, who for decades have overseen one of history's greatest fortunes and philanthropic operations, said they plan to divorce....
Foreign Covid Aid Pours In, But "Teething Problems" In Distribution
Tue May 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
As the world responds to India's Covid SOS, questions have emerged over whether foreign aid, including a vast number of oxygen machines and life-saving drugs, is reaching its desti...
Karnataka: 24 die allegedly due to oxygen crisis in Chamarajanagar
Mon May 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
As many as 24 Covid-19 patients died in the last 24 hours after a government hospital in Karnataka’s Chamarajanagar allegedly ran out of medical oxygen....
KKR’s Covid-19 cases have thrown IPL into a scheduling nightmare
Mon May 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The BCCI faces an Indian Premier League (IPL) fixture rescheduling nightmare following the postponement of Monday’s game between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers (...
India’s COVID cases near 20 million; national stay-at-home order urged
Mon May 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India reported more than 300,000 new coronavirus infections for a 12th straight day on Monday to take its overall number of cases to just shy of 20 million, as scientists predicted...
Airport security app Clear looks to score with U.S. ‘vaccine passport’
Mon May 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Over 60 U.S. stadiums and other venues are deploying an app from Clear to verify people’s COVID-19 status, placing the New York company known for its airport security fast lanes at...
‘I’m an intersectional cisgender Millennial woman of color’: CIA goes full woke in widely mocked promo video
Mon May 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A recruitment ad for the Central Intelligence Agency featuring a smorgasbord of woke buzzwords has been ruthlessly mocked on social media, with many accusing the spy agency of usin...
Government Sets Deadline For PM's New House Amid Covid
Mon May 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A new Prime Minister's residence is to be built by December 2022 as part of the Central Vista project which has received an environmental all-clear in the middle of a raging pandem...
Oxygen Concentrators Lying With Customs, High Court Demands Details
Mon May 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to provide details of oxygen concentrators that are lying with the customs department pending clearance, by 3 pm today. Amid the terrible ...
Mamata likely to retain Bengal as trends show TMC leading
Sun May 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Mamata Banerjee is likely to return as the Chief Minister for the third consecutive term with the TMC leading in over 200 seats, while the BJP’s lead has slipped to 88 seats, as pe...
Receiving threats… can’t comment on Kumbh or polls: Adar to UK daily
Sun May 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
In an interview to a London newspaper, Adar Poonawalla, head of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India (SII), has complained of receiving threats from po...
Congress, govt spar over foreign missions’ oxygen SOS to IYC
Sun May 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A war of words erupted between the government and Congress on Sunday involving two foreign missions in Delhi over supply of oxygen cylinders by the Youth Congress to these embassie...
Haryana Under Lockdown From Tomorrow For A Week: Minister Anil Vij
Sun May 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Haryana government has placed the state under a week-long complete lockdown starting tomorrow to curb the deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the country. The ...