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Lynchings: Ministry panel considers changes in law, a relief fund
Lynchings: Ministry panel considers changes in law, a relief fund

Mon Aug 20 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

The draft report will be submitted to a committee headed by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba, that had been set up by the Home Ministry on July 23 to “deliberate” and “make recomme...

Kerala floods LIVE: Receding floodwater leaves a trail of debris behind, rescue ops underway
Kerala floods LIVE: Receding floodwater leaves a trail of debris behind, rescue ops underway

Mon Aug 20 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Kerala rains and floods LIVE UPDATES: The unprecedented rains have brought the state to a standstill. Over 200 have been killed and thousands are still feared stranded. Follow this...

'Shocked and humiliated': Lawsuits accuse Customs, Border officers of invasive searches of minors, women
'Shocked and humiliated': Lawsuits accuse Customs, Border officers of invasive searches of minors, women

Mon Aug 20 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

From New York to San Diego, government pays thousands to settle allegations of stripping, body cavity probing, forced hospital procedures...

Former UN chief Kofi Annan passes away at 80
Former UN chief Kofi Annan passes away at 80

Sat Aug 18 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

General Kofi Annan was the first black African to assume the office of world's top diplomat, serving two terms from 1997 to 2006...

Kerala floods: Thousands await rescue as death toll crosses 200
Kerala floods: Thousands await rescue as death toll crosses 200

Sat Aug 18 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

More than 300,000 displaced since August 8 after record rains in southern Indian state cause flooding and landslides....

Gaza protests: All the latest updates
Gaza protests: All the latest updates

Sat Aug 18 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Since protests began on March 30, Israeli forces have killed at least 166 Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave....

Northern Cyprus looks to Ankara as Turkish lira's woes bite
Northern Cyprus looks to Ankara as Turkish lira's woes bite

Sat Aug 18 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Island's Turkish part operates in lira but many items are priced in foreign currency leaving it exposed to fluctuations....

Imran Khan sworn in as Pakistan’s 22nd Prime Minister LIVE: New innings begin for country
Imran Khan sworn in as Pakistan’s 22nd Prime Minister LIVE: New innings begin for country

Sat Aug 18 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Imran Khan Swearing-in LIVE: Imran, who outvoted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shahbaz Sharif in the PM election a day earlier, was administered the oath by President Mamn...

Capital outpouring: Delhi bids farewell to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, PM Modi leads funeral procession
Capital outpouring: Delhi bids farewell to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, PM Modi leads funeral procession

Sat Aug 18 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

As the procession moved, locals rushed to the edge of the road to catch a glimpse of Vajpayee, but members of the BJP walked in a human chain, keeping the crowds from coming too cl...

Imran Khan elected as Pakistan's prime minister
Imran Khan elected as Pakistan's prime minister

Sat Aug 18 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief, who will take oath of office on Saturday, promises an era of 'accountability'....

St. Luke’s Heart Transplant Program to Lose Medicare Funding Today
St. Luke’s Heart Transplant Program to Lose Medicare Funding Today

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

St. Luke’s Heart Transplant Program to Lose Medicare Funding Today...

Document of the Day: US Senate Resolution on Freedom of the Press
Document of the Day: US Senate Resolution on Freedom of the Press

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Following editorials in some 350 newspapers across the United States Thursday calling for an end to attacks on the press by President Donald Trump,...

Life lessons from Vajpayee, from a dad who idolised him
Life lessons from Vajpayee, from a dad who idolised him

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Atal Bihari Vajpayee's speech at Gol market in Delhi in 1977 was a huge influence on my father, who had come to Delhi from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, and it formed a big part of the life...

Atal Bihari Vajpayee funeral LIVE Updates: Former PM cremated with full state honours at Smriti Sthal
Atal Bihari Vajpayee funeral LIVE Updates: Former PM cremated with full state honours at Smriti Sthal

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

The former prime minister passed away at AIIMS Thursday after battling a prolonged illness. He was 93....

Death of a statesman: Vajpayee, a leader who always soft-spoke his mind
Death of a statesman: Vajpayee, a leader who always soft-spoke his mind

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Atal Bihari Vajpayee dead: People close to Atalji, as he was called by those who knew him well, say the defining characteristics of the man was his humanism, humour, his love for p...

Atal Bihari Vajpayee and national security: Daring leap, step by step
Atal Bihari Vajpayee and national security: Daring leap, step by step

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Atal Bihari Vajpayee dead: With altered security paradigm, he engaged with China, made peace moves towards Pakistan...

Former Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee dies
Former Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee dies

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

The 93-year-old, who led India three times, had been hospitalised since June with a kidney infection and chest problems....

Millions are victims of hate crimes, though many never report them
Millions are victims of hate crimes, though many never report them

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

An investigation of a growing climate of hate in the United States through national crime victimization data analysis and on-the-ground reporting in 36 states...

Faking Climate Change Data & Visualizing for the Color Blind, in Sci-Fi Movies & in W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black America
Faking Climate Change Data & Visualizing for the Color Blind, in Sci-Fi Movies & in W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black America

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from Aug 6 to 12 finds @sciam profiling a new color scale for the color blind, @EDudin...

INN Joins 350 US Papers in Call for End to Trump Harassment of Press
INN Joins 350 US Papers in Call for End to Trump Harassment of Press

Fri Aug 17 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Today, the Institute for Nonprofit News joins journalists across the country in asking you, the public, to stand up for your rights to free speech and an open government....