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7 Jailed For Harassing Lioness With Bait In Gujarat's Gir Forest In 2018
Tue Mar 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Eight people were arrested in May 2018 after a video clip surfaced on social media in which they were seen harassing a lioness by luring it with a chicken as bait. ...
Lockdown In Maharashtra's Thane To Start Later This Week Amid Covid Surge
Tue Mar 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The order, issued by Thane Municipal Commissioner Vipin Sharma, said the decision was taken due to rise in COVID-19 cases in these areas in the past few days. ...
Parliament's Budget Session Live Updates: Both Houses Adjourned Till 12 PM
Tue Mar 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The second part of the Budget session of Parliament commenced from Monday with all COVID-19 precautionary measures in place. ...
Don't Let Anyone Stop You: Rahul Gandhi On International Women's Day
Mon Mar 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
"Women are capable of creating history and future with formidable grace. Don't let anyone stop you. #InternationalWomensDay," Rahul Gandhi tweeted....
Meghan Markle Says Kate Middleton Made Her Cry Before Her Wedding
Mon Mar 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
In a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan called the claim -- pored over at length by the gossip press -- "a turning point" in her relations with the royal family....
French Billionaire Olivier Dassault Killed In Helicopter Crash
Mon Mar 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
French billionaire Olivier Dassault, a politician and scion of the Dassault aircraft-making family, was killed in a helicopter crash Sunday, with President Emmanuel Macron paying t...
Ikea's Plans For India May Face Stiff Competition From Mukesh Ambani
Mon Mar 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Furniture giant Ikea is accelerating its India expansion after a nationwide pandemic lockdown last year delayed the construction and opening of new stores in one of its fastest-gro...
"Country Suffering": Opposition Protests Over Fuel Prices In Parliament
Mon Mar 08 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The second part of the Budget session of Parliament was off to a stormy start today - the Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 11 am minutes after opening - as Congress MPs raised slogan...
On Camera, Union Minister Giriraj Singh Says, "Beat Up Officials If..."
Sun Mar 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday advised the people of his Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar to "beat up with bamboo sticks" those officials who appeared insensitiv...
Karnataka Court Bars Media From Showing "Defamatory" Content On 6 Ministers
Sun Mar 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A city court on Saturday issued a temporary injunction against media organisations from telecasting or publishing of any "defamatory" and unverified news items against six Karnatak...
"Free At Last": Poet Varavara Rao, 81, Released After Last Month's Bail
Sun Mar 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Varavara Rao, the 81-year-old poet-activist who has been in jail for over two years in the Koregaon-Bhima case, walked out of the Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital late Saturday after bei...
China Exports Soar To Highest Level In Decades After COVID-19 Hit
Sun Mar 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
China's export growth jumped to the highest in over two decades, official data showed Sunday, with imports also surging in a sharp bounceback from the coronavirus outbreak that had...
"Centre Ready To Amend Farm Laws But...": Agriculture Minister To Critics
Sun Mar 07 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday yet again hit out at the critics of farm laws, especially the opposition leaders, as he suggested those opposing the new legis...
100 Days of BJP's Arrogance: Congress Slams Government Over Farmers' Protest
Sat Mar 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
As the farmers' protest against the Centre's new farm laws completed 100 days, the Congress on Saturday said the period was a "black chapter" in India's democracy for the treatment...
Days Before Death, Man Linked To SUV Near Ambani Home Wrote "Was Harassed"
Sat Mar 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Hiren Mansukh, a car parts dealer linked to an SUV filled with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's Mumbai home last week, had written letter days before his death, ...
"Not So Sasti Anymore": Actor Taapsee Pannu On 3 Days Of Tax Raids
Sat Mar 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Keys to an alleged Paris bungalow, a receipt for ₹ 5 crore, and "memory of 2013 raid" - these are what the income-tax (I-T) department primarily found during its raid on properties...
Child Rights Body Takes Up 3-Year-Old's Painful Death Outside UP Hospital
Sat Mar 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A day after a three-year-old girl died outside a private Prayagraj Hospital, her surgical wounds allegedly left open and unattended because her family could not pay the bills, the ...
"Test, Track, Treat": Centre To 8 States, Union Territories On Covid Surge
Sat Mar 06 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The effective strategy of "test, track and treat" has yielded results at the height of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the centre said today in a reminder to the states that are wi...
OCI Need Permission For "Tabligh, Journalistic Activities": Home Ministry
Fri Mar 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
OCI card holders will need special permission if they want to take up research, any missionary or Tabligh or journalistic activities, the Home Ministry has said in new rules....
Serum's Adar Poonawalla Warns Of Delays As US Prioritizes Pfizer
Fri Mar 05 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The head of the world's biggest vaccine maker and the World Health Organization's chief scientist said manufacturers of coronavirus shots face a global shortage of the raw material...