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8 UP police personnel killed in encounter with criminals
Fri Jul 03 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
At least eight Uttar Pradesh police personnel, including a deputy superintendent of police, were killed in an encounter with criminals in Kanpur, officials said on Friday. The enco...
PM reaches Ladakh on surprise visit
Fri Jul 03 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
Days after a violent face-off between Indian and Chinese troops in East Ladakh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday reached Leh where he interacted with personnel of the Army, A...
Highway robber killed in encounter in Aligarh
Fri Jul 03 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
A criminal involved in a dozen highway robberies was killed near Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh in an encounter with the Special Task Force (STF) and the local police...
58 medical workers die fighting coronavirus in Pakistan
Thu Jul 02 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
Pakistan has lost 58 healthcare providers, including 42 doctors, to coronavirus while they were on a mission to save lives. Medical professionals who lost their battle with COVID-1...
New Zealand's health minister resigns after virus blunders
Thu Jul 02 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
New Zealand's health minister resigned Thursday following a series of personal blunders during the coronavirus pandemic. David Clark had earlier described himself as an idiot for b...
Assam lab isolates COVID-19 virus
Thu Jul 02 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Regional Medical Research Centre in Assam's Dibrugarh has become the fourth laboratory in the country to successfully isolate SARS-CoV-2 virus that can be used for the producti...
MCOCA slapped on 10 accused in armed dacoity case
Thu Jul 02 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
The police have charged 10 accused in an armed dacoity case under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act in Palghar district, an official said on Thursday. The ac...
COVID-19 cases push India's tally above 6 lakh
Thu Jul 02 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
India's COVID-19 tally zoomed past six lakh cases on Thursday with a single-day increase of 19,148 cases, just five days after it crossed the five-lakh mark, while the death toll ...
DHL temporarily suspends Chinese import shipments to India
Wed Jul 01 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
German logistics company DHL said on Wednesday it has temporarily suspended picking up import shipments from China to India, after border tensions between the countries led to clea...
Covid-19: Australia to lock down 300,000 in Melbourne suburbs
Wed Jul 01 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
Authorities will lock down more than 300,000 people in suburbs north of Melbourne for a month from late on Wednesday to contain the risk of infection after two weeks of double-dig...
Coronavirus: 15 inmates of Bengal prison test positive
Wed Jul 01 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
Fifteen inmates of a prison in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday. The infected inmates of the Baruipur Central...
Trump faces pressure over Russia bounties to kill US troops
Wed Jul 01 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday came under growing pressure to respond to allegations that Russia offered bounties for killing American troops in Afghanistan, with Democrats d...
Mla tests positive for coronavirus in Goa
Wed Jul 01 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
A BJP MLA from Goa has tested positive for coronavirus, a senior state health official said on Wednesday. The legislator was admitted to Margao-based ESI Hospital, a specially desi...
Covid-19: Human trial of India vaccine in July
Tue Jun 30 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
Volunteers in India will be immunised with a new locally made coronavirus vaccine in July. An unspecified number of people will have the vaccine, as part of a trial by Hyderabad-ba...
Security outside Taj hotel in Mumbai beefed up
Tue Jun 30 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
Police have beefed up security outside the Taj hotel in south Mumbai after the Karachi Stock Exchange terror attack, a senior official said on Tuesday. The iconic hotel in Colaba a...
TikTok says in process of complying with government order
Tue Jun 30 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
TikTok on Tuesday said it is in the process of complying with the government's order on blocking of the app, and asserted that it has not shared information of Indian users with an...
Gas leak at pharma plant in Vizag, two dead
Tue Jun 30 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
Two people were killed and four others were taken ill after benzene gas leaked at a pharmaceutical company at Parawada near here early on Tuesday morning, official sources said. Th...
3 militants killed in Anantnag encounter
Mon Jun 29 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
Three unidentified militants were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district on Monday, police said. The security forces launched a co...
World hits coronavirus milestones amid fears worse to come
Mon Jun 29 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
The world surpassed two sobering coronavirus milestones Sunday -- 500,000 confirmed deaths, 10 million confirmed cases and hit another high mark for daily new infections as governm...
Sugar export from Maharashtra hit due to lockdown
Mon Jun 29 2020 | By Cobrapost Desk
Nearly 36 lakh tonne sugar has been exported from Maharashtra between January and June this year as against the target of 60 lakh tonne during the period, an official said on Monda...