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"Don't Hoard Oxygen": Government To Embassies Amid Row Over SOS
Sun May 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Foreign missions should not hoard oxygen and other essential supplies, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Sunday, as at least two of them turned to the opposition Congress fo...
Scientific Advisers Say Centre Ignored Warning Of Surge: Report
Sun May 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five sci...
Super Victory For Trinamool; DMK Wins; Left In Kerala; BJP In Assam
Sun May 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Mamata Banerjee looks set to win a third term in Bengal, the DMK is heading for victory in Tamil Nadu, the BJP is leading in Assam and the LDF in Kerala in the counting of votes fo...
Delhi Hospital Says Doctor Among 8 Dead After It Ran Out Of Oxygen
Sat May 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Eight people, including a doctor, died at Delhi's Batra Hospital on Saturday after the facility ran out of medical oxygen - for the second time in the space of a week - at 11.45 am...
US Bans Travel From Covid-Hit India. See Who Are Exempted
Sat May 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Certain categories of students, academics, journalists and individuals have been exempted from the India travel ban announced by President Joe Biden, the US State Department said....
Woman Dies In Car Outside Noida Hospital, Gasping, Unable To Find Bed
Sat May 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
As India reels under a deadly second wave of coronavirus, countless cases of unspeakable tragedies have emerged from across the country....
Australians Arriving From Covid-Hit India Could Face 5 Years' Jail, Fine
Sat May 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as of Monday and those who disob...
Joe Biden's Top Medical Adviser Advises Total Lockdown In India For Few Weeks: Report
Sat May 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Top US epidemiologist Anthony Fauci has suggested a complete lockdown for a few weeks in India as an immediate step to contain the spread of COVID-19 as its deadly second wave show...
India coronavirus: Over-18s vaccination drive hit by shortages
Sat May 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India has become the first country to report more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day, as its nationwide vaccine drive launches amid a supply crisis....
At Over Rs. 1.41 Lakh Crore, GST Collection In April Sets All-Time High Record
Sat May 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The gross goods and services tax (GST) revenue collected in the month of April 2021 stood at an all-time high record of Rs. 1.41 lakh crore, said the Ministry of Finance in a state...
White House reviewing allegation of ‘energy attack’ in Washington, DC reportedly similar to past ‘Havana Syndrome’ cases
Fri Apr 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The White House has said it is evaluating a report about a possible energy attack nearby that left one National Security Council official sick with side effects similar to the ‘Hav...
No Clampdown On Info, Supreme Court Warns In Big Covid Hearing
Fri Apr 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
No state should clamp down on information if citizens communicate their grievances on social media, the Supreme Court said today amid Covid surge, stressing that the court will "tr...
After Court's "Booked For Murder" Remark, Election Commission Pushes Back
Fri Apr 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Election Commission today requested the Madras High Court to restrain the media from reporting on oral observations, days after the court's sharp remarks on "murder charges" on...
Counter ‘one-sided’ world media narrative on govt’s pandemic ‘failure’, Jaishankar tells Indian diplomats
Fri Apr 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
In a virtual meeting with Indian ambassadors and high commissioners posted across the world, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday conveyed the message that the “one-s...
CM Adityanath’s experiment to check COVID spread in UP with help of bureaucracy ‘failed’: BJP MLA
Fri Apr 30 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
BJP MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Bairia constituency Surendra Singh on Friday criticised the state government’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, saying Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath...
Supersoldiers & AI generals? Top Space Force scientist says Pentagon must adopt ‘human augmentation’ tech to beat out adversaries
Thu Apr 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The gradual merger of man and machine is not only inevitable, but “imperative” in the Pentagon’s drive to outdo US adversaries, the Space Force’s top scientist said, hailing a new ...
Didn't Ask Facebook To Drop #ResignModi, Report "Mischievous": Government
Thu Apr 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A Wall Street Journal report that alleged that the temporary blocking of the hashtag #ResignModi was an attempt to curb public dissent is "misleading" and "mischievous", the govern...
Top ULFA-I militant killed in encounter in Assam’s Bongaigaon district, one of his aides arrested: Police
Thu Apr 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A top militant of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) — self-styled commander Dwipen Saud — was killed during an encounter with security forces in Bongaigaon district...
Indian Billionaires Hunker Down In Safety Bubbles As Covid Rages On
Thu Apr 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Some of India's richest people are forming bubbles with their families and staff, while others are leaving for homes outside of major cities as a virus resurgence overwhelms the co...
Counting the Covid dead in the capital: on paper, at the pyre, and in between
Thu Apr 29 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The harrowing images playing out from cities and towns across the country show mourners lined up outside crematoriums, rows of funeral pyres burning with hardly a break, last-rites...