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Priyanka Gandhi To Meet Family In UP Of Farmer Who Died In R-Day Violence
Thu Feb 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi will visit Rampur today to meet the family of Navreet Singh who was killed during farmers' tractor rally in New Delhi on the Republic Day...
Greta Thunberg Tweets Toolkit On Farmers' Protest, Deletes, Shares Update
Thu Feb 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Teen climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, who has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, has shared a toolkit to help people show support for the farmers' protest on Delhi...
With Bezos Out As Amazon CEO, Is This End Of His Question-Mark Emails?
Thu Feb 04 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
For staff at Amazon.com Inc, the departure of CEO Jeff Bezos may spell the end of one of the company's unusual and, for some managers, frightening practices: the "question-mark" em...
'Sensationalist': Govt on foreign entities backing farm protests
Wed Feb 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Slamming foreign individuals and entities for comments on the ongoing farmer protests, the Ministry of External Affairs Wednesday said it is “unfortunate to see vested interest gro...
Shashi Tharoor, Rajdeep Sardesai move SC over FIRs on ‘misleading’ tweets
Wed Feb 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and journalist Rajdeep Sardesai on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court over the multiple FIRs filed against them over their “misleading” tw...
"Farm Laws Withdrawn During British Rule Too": Opposition In Parliament
Wed Feb 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad today urged Prime Minster Narendra Modi to repeal the three farm laws, voicing the united stand of the opposition durin...
Rihanna's Tweet Takes Farmers' Protest Global, Spurs Support
Wed Feb 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Farmers' protest against the centre's three controversial laws, which they say will leave them at the mercy of corporates, has seen a tremendous outpouring of support on social med...
Before Coup, IMF Sent Myanmar $350 Million, Refund A Concern
Wed Feb 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The International Monetary Fund last week sent $350 million in cash to the Myanmar government, part of a no-strings-attached emergency aid package to help the country battle the co...
For aspirants IPS officer posts his UPSC CSE notes online
Wed Feb 03 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
IPS officer Akash Tomar who secured an All India Rank of 138 in the UPSC Civil Service Examination (CSE) of 2012, shares his strategies with aspirants that worked for him while pre...
'Give Diesel, Will Search': UP Woman, Looking for Daughter, Accuses Cops
Tue Feb 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A differently abled woman in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district has alleged that she paid between Rs.10,000 and Rs.15,000 to local policemen to fill diesel in their vehicles so that t...
Farmer Leaders Say Will Block Roads Across The Country On Saturday
Tue Feb 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Farmers protesting against the Centre's three farm laws have called for a countrywide "chakka jam" protest on Saturday. The duration of the protest will be three hours -- from noon...
12 Children Given Sanitiser Instead Of Polio Drops In Maharashtra
Tue Feb 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
n a case of huge negligence, 12 children were given sanitiser instead of oral polio vaccine drops in a village in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, about 700 km from state capital ...
Heard in Parliament during Budget speech: ‘Adani, Adani’
Tue Feb 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India’s first Covid-era budget was delivered from a tablet. The MPs were scattered across the two Houses and the visitors’ galleries to maintain social distancing in a Parliament s...
Centre prompts, Twitter blocks accounts using farmer genocide hashtag
Tue Feb 02 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Twitter on Monday blocked nearly 250 accounts and tweets after the Narendra Modi government asked it to act against those using the #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag and posting ...
Editors Guild of India demands release of Mandeep Punia
Mon Feb 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned over the incarceration of freelance journalist Mandeep Punia who was reporting on the farm protest from Singhu border....
Budget: Focus On Vaccine, Farmers, Polls
Mon Feb 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman is announcing Budget 2021 in Parliament. Ms Sitharaman said the Budget was prepared in circumstances -like never before- and that the government ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi Detained In Military Coup, 1-Year Emergency Declared
Mon Feb 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Myanmar's military staged a coup on Monday, detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and declaring it had taken control of the country for one year under a state of emergency....
Delhi police arrests freelance journalist
Mon Feb 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Delhi police on Sunday arrested freelance journalist Mandeep Punia who had in a Facebook Live session on Friday accused BJP workers of posing as local people and unleashing violenc...
BJP chorus in west UP: Ghazipur mishandled, can boost movement
Mon Feb 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The move by the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh to get the farm protest site at Ghazipur vacated has the potential to revitalise the agitation against the Centre’s new agriculture ...
Webinars on internal matters can only be conducted with govt’s nod
Mon Feb 01 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Government institutions can hold virtual conferences on subjects touching on India’s security and internal matters, including topics related to the country’s borders, Northeast...