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US fears threat near Kabul airport, asks citizens to leave
Washington: The United States warned Saturday of a “specific, credible threat” near Kabul airport and urged its citizens to leave the area, days after a deadly attack on crowds fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. A series of urgent terror warnings have rattled evacuation efforts overseen by US forces, who...
US launches drone strikes against ISIS after Kabul blasts
Washington: The US military said Friday it had carried out a drone strike against a “planner” of the Islamic State-Khorasan, the group which claimed credit for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport. “The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed...
Dramatic arrest of UP ex-cop who challenged Yogi Adityanath
Lucknow: A former senior Uttar Pradesh police officer was arrested on Friday in a dramatic fashion in Lucknow in an abetment-to-suicide case shortly after he proposed the name of his proposed political party that, he said, will contest the 2022 state assembly polls. Forcibly retired by the Union Home...
85 killed In Kabul airport carnage; US on alert for attacks
US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule were on alert for more attacks on Friday after at least one Islamic State suicide bomber killed 85 people including 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport. Two blasts and gunfire rocked the area outside the...
Biden vows revenge: ‘We will hunt you down’
Washington: US President Joe Biden pledged Thursday to hunt down the perpetrators of the suicide bombings that killed 12 American troops in Kabul and said the United States will not be deterred from its mission to evacuate thousands of civilians from Afghanistan. “To those who carried out this attack...
Sidhu adviser quits amid row over remarks
Chandigarh: Malvinder Singh Mali quit as Punjab Congress branch chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s adviser today, day after the party threatened to dismiss him over his controversial remarks if Mr Sidhu failed to remove him. In Facebook posts, Mr Mali suggested that both India and Pakistan were illegal occupants in Kashmir....
Minister’s shocker on Mysuru rape earns him rebuke
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on Thursday said his government will form a special team to investigate the case of gang-rape of a college student in Mysuru and asserted that the perpetrators will be caught soon and brought to justice. “Once the DGP (Director General of...
Immediate priority Afghanistan evacuation, says Govt
The government has told opposition parties that the immediate priority is the evacuation of all Indians stranded in Afghanistan, sources said on Thursday afternoon. This was after an all-party meet called by Prime Minister Modi to brief the opposition on the “critical” Afghanistan situation. Around 15,000 people have contacted...
SC orders transfer of ex-Unitech directors from Tihar to Mumbai jail
New Delhi: Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra, the former Directors of Unitech, will be shifted from Delhi’s Tihar Jail to Mumbai’s Arthur Road and Taloja Jail, the Supreme Court ordered today. The order came after the Enforcement Directorate informed the court that it has found a “secret underground office”...
Rane asked to appear before cops next week
Mumbai: Narayan Rane, who was arrested yesterday in Maharashtra over his “slap Uddhav Thackeray” comment and granted bail within eight hours, has been asked to appear before the police in Nashik on September 2. One of the four FIRs against Narayan Rane has been filed in Nashik. The notice...
16 of 78 evacuees from Afghanistan test Covid-positive
New Delhi: Sixteen Afghanistan evacuees out of the 78 that landed in India yesterday are coronavirus positive. As a measure of precaution, all 78 have been quarantined. India has stepped up efforts to evacuate its citizens as well as Afghan citizens fleeing their country because of the worsening security situation...
BJP slams Rane’s arrest, but distances itself from minister’s remark
Mumbai: The BJP distanced itself from Narayan Rane’s controversial remarks about slapping Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, but at the same time backed the Union Minister today. While party chief JP Nadda said the minister’s arrest was a “violation of constitutional values”, the state’s leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis...
NIA says Elgar Parishad accused wanted to wage war against nation
Mumbai: The NIA in its draft charges submitted before a special court in Mumbai in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case has claimed the accused wanted to establish their own government and “wage a war against the nation”. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) submitted the draft earlier this month and...
Sidhu summons aides as Amarinder issues warning
Chandigarh: Controversial comments by Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Sidhu’s advisers threaten to shatter his fragile truce with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, who has publicly told them off for “atrocious and ill-conceived comments” on sensitive national issues. After the Chief Minister’s warning, Navjot Sidhu summoned both his advisers, Malwinder Singh...
Taliban says fighters heading for holdout Afghan valley
Dubai: The Taliban said on Sunday that “hundreds” of its fighters were heading to the Panjshir Valley, one of the few parts of Afghanistan not yet controlled by the group. Since the Taliban overran Afghanistan, flickers of resistance have begun to emerge with some ex-government troops gathering in the...
Aligarh airport may be named after Kalyan Singh
Aligarh: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath paid his last respects to former chief minister Kalyan Singh on Sunday and said people were paying tributes to him from the airport to the city. Speaking to reporters in Aligarh, Yogi Adityanath said, “Today, we have brought the remains of Kalyan...
BJP flag over national flag triggers row
New Delhi: A photograph of the tribute ceremony to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh is rapidly becoming the eye of the storm on social media. Kalyan Singh — the BJP veteran under whose watch the Babri Masjid was demolished — died yesterday at the age of 89....
Infosys CEO summoned to Delhi on tax site glitches
New Delhi: The finance ministry has summoned Infosys chief Salil Parekh tomorrow to explain the continuing glitches in the new income tax e-filing portal. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had expressed concern over the issue in June. Mr Parekh and senior executive Praveen Rao were asked to work on...
