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"Our Cronies Are The Janta": Nirmala Sitharman's Retort To Crony Slurs
Sat Feb 13 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today launched a scathing attack on critics - particularly the Congress - accusing the Narendra Modi government of crony capitalism, ignoring th...
Bihar: First testing red flags went up 6 months ago
Sat Feb 13 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
THE FIRST red flags came six months ago. In August 2020 when Covid testing was suddenly ramped up as infections began to soar across the country. In Bihar, Katihar led the way with...
The day after, Army chief flags: China’s moves lead to conflict
Sat Feb 13 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A day after New Delhi confirmed the start of the disengagement process at Pangong Tso as a first step to resolve the nine-month military standoff in Ladakh, Army chief General MM N...
U.S. tells G7 that it is back at the table to help with global recovery
Sat Feb 13 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration told allies on Friday it was re-engaging with them to help steer the global economy out of its worst slump since the Great Depression, a c...
Day after, Trudeau office says he spoke to Modi on ‘recent protests’
Fri Feb 12 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he held a “good discussion” with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on many important issues, including on the “two nations’ ...
PM Modi ‘a coward, has given away Indian territory to China’: Rahul Gandhi
Fri Feb 12 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Day after Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced in Parliament that India and China have reached an agreement on disengagement in the North and South bank of Pangong lake i...
Chhattisgarh Asks Centre To Halt Covaxin. Harsh Vardhan's Response
Fri Feb 12 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Union minister Dr Harsh Vardhan Thursday wrote to Chhattisgarh health minister TS Singh Deo, who has gone public with his concerns about Bharat Biotech's Covaxin. The primary conce...
Was On Phone For Two Straight Hours With Xi Jinping: Joe Biden
Fri Feb 12 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that his first phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since taking office lasted two hours. "Last night, I was in the phone for two straight...
Delhi Man, 25, Stabbed To Death After Birthday Party Fight, 4 Arrested
Fri Feb 12 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A 25-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by four men following a quarrel at a birthday party in outer Delhi's Mangolpuri area, police said on Thursday....
Bhima Koregaon case: shocking data forensics report
Thu Feb 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Lawyers for a human rights activist who has spent almost three years in prison for alleged plots to incite violence and eliminate Prime Minister Narendra Modi have given Bombay Hig...
No excise duty relief plan from Centre to curb fuel prices
Thu Feb 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Centre has refused to offer any relief to the public from soaring petrol and diesel prices in the form of an excise duty relief....
Big Breakthrough In China Standoff At Key Pangong Lake
Thu Feb 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
India and China have reached an agreement on disengagement at Pangong Tso in Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said today in parliament, giving details of a breakthrough afte...
"Aggressive Surveillance": US Expert On Activist Rona Wilson's Laptop
Thu Feb 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Writer-activist Rona Jacob Wilson's computer was hacked two years before his arrest in the Bhima-Koregaon case, and the purpose was "aggressive surveillance" and inserting fake doc...
Amazon Goes To Supreme Court In Battle Over Future Group-Reliance Deal
Thu Feb 11 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Amazon has approached the Supreme Court seeking to stop Future Group's $3.4 billion retail assets sale to Reliance Industries, days after the Delhi High Court revoked a previous si...
Have withheld ‘a portion’ of accounts identified by govt, won’t block media: Twitter
Wed Feb 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Explaining its stand on the blocking orders for certain handles from the Indian government, micro-blogging platform Twitter on Wednesday said it had now “withheld a portion of the ...
Govt doing vote bank politics in Budget, note bank politics outside, says Kapil Sibal
Wed Feb 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Speaking on the Union Budget, Congress leader Kapil Sibal Wednesday said while the NDA government accuses its predecessor UPA government of doing vote bank politics, they themselve...
Enforcement Directorate raid on portal facing Adani suit
Wed Feb 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Enforcement Directorate has launched searches at NewsClick, a news portal that has been slapped with a Rs 100-crore defamation suit by the Adani group, and premises associated ...
"Proud Andolanjeevi": P Chidambaram, Others Give PM Jibe Life Of Its Own
Wed Feb 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today sought to wear "Andolanjeevi", a term pejoratively used in Parliament two days ago, as a compliment. Purported...
"Why Fuel's Cheaper In Sita's Nepal, Ravana's Lanka," Minister Asked
Wed Feb 10 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A jibe floating on social media featured in Parliament today as the government faced questions on soaring fuel prices. An opposition MP questioned why the prices of petrol and dies...
V K Singh LAC remark counters India position, China says trespass clear
Tue Feb 09 2021 | By Cobrapost Desk
A DAY after Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Gen V K Singh (retd) said that India has transgressed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) more often than the Chinese sid...