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Biden scrambles to limit credibility loss
WASHINGTON: When President Joe Biden appeared in the White House East Room on July 8 to stress that the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan was proceeding apace, he declared that a Taliban takeover of the country was not inevitable. Five weeks later, the Taliban is in charge, scenes of chaos...
Sasikala audio rattles AIADMK
“It’s the wish of the party cadres that I become the third-generation leader of the AIADMK party”, uttered VK Sasikala in a new audiotape that has surfaced on social media, adding to the woes of the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu. The expelled AIADMK leader, who is celebrating her 67th...
Asthana’s appointment as Delhi Police chief challenged
New Delhi: Former CBI official Rakesh Asthana’s appointment to the post of Commissioner of Delhi Police and his one-year extension in service has been challenged in the Delhi High Court. The matter will be heard today. The petitioner has sought action in the matter, claiming that the criteria for...
Parliament disciplinary panel recommendations to be crucial
Speculations are rife about what the mandate will be of the Parliamentary Special Committee which is in the process of being constituted to look into the ruckus incident on the last day in Rajya Sabha. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu is looking at all possible legal options so that this...
E-Visa to fast-track Afghanistan evacuation
New Delhi: The government today announced a new category of electronic visa to fast-track applications from Afghans who wish to leave the Taliban-controlled country. The new visa category is called “e-Emergency X-Misc Visa”. Thousands of people, desperate to flee the land-locked nation, have been thronging capital Kabul’s airport since Sunday,...
Biden vows devastating response if Taliban attack US interests
Washington: US President Joe Biden warned the Taliban Monday not to disrupt or threaten the evacuation of thousands of American diplomats and Afghan translators at the Kabul airport. The response to any attack would be “swift and forceful,” Biden said in a televised address from the White House. “We...
MP minister wants cow rearing mandatory for contesting polls
A minister in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led government in Madhya Pradesh has backed cow rearing act (gaupalan kanun), saying those public representatives aspiring for polls should compulsorily rear cows. Raising this demand, Minister for New and Renewable Energy and Environment Hardeep Singh Dang has said that he would write...
Hindus, Sikhs take refuge in Kabul Gurdwara
Many Hindus and Sikhs have taken refuge in Kabul’s Karte Parwan gurdwara after Afghanistan fell into the hands of the Taliban, DSGMC president Manjinder Singh Sirsa claimed on Monday. The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee chief said he was in touch with the president of the Gurdwara Committee of...
Desperate scenes at Kabul airport
New Delhi: A video of hundreds of Afghans jostling to climb into an aeroplane to fly out of the country amid the Taliban’s return may become the latest defining image of desperation in a war-torn country. A parked aircraft at Kabul airport is surrounded by a sea of...
Centre informs SC about panel to examine Pegasus issue
The Pegasus snooping allegations will be examined by a group of experts in the field, the government told the Supreme Court today. The Centre has denied allegations linked to recent reports that Israeli Pegasus spyware was used to target opposition leaders, journalists and others, in a two-page affidavit filed...
Sin to stay silent when Constitution trampled upon: Sonia
As India enters the 75th year of independence, the Congress Monday said party chief Sonia Gandhi has urged people to introspect what freedom means and told them it is a “sin” to remain silent when fundamental rights and the Constitution are “trampled upon”. She also said the country’s democracy...
Afghans worried about return of Sharia
Kabul: The Taliban entered Afghanistan capital Kabul today and Western-backed President Ashraf Ghani left the country, with the terrorists saying they were seeking complete power. Two officials from the Islamist group told Reuters there would be no transitional government following their lighting sweep across Afghanistan that led back to...
TMC sees Mamata as key architect of Modi ouster plan
The Trinamool Congress Sunday vowed to oust the government at the Centre after the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and asserted that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would be one of the key architects of the change of guard. The ruling TMC, in an editorial in its mouthpiece Jago...
Ministers ask Naidu to ‘punish unruly Rajya Sabha MPs’
New Delhi: The “unprecedented, extreme, and violent acts” by Opposition MPs in the Rajya Sabha last week demands stern action, a delegation of seven Union Ministers has submitted to House Chairman Venkaiah Naidu. Receiving a memorandum on the matter from the team, he said he will examine the matter...
Sibal backs Sonia’s Opposition unity move
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Sunday welcomed party chief Sonia Gandhi’s initiative of bringing like-minded political parties together, but urged her to strengthen her own party, saying no Opposition unity is possible without it. Sibal, however, said he along with other leaders of the “Group of 23″, who...
Modi promises big changes in next 25 years
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, outlining the aspirations of a new India on its 75th Independence Day, said the country “should not confine our 75th year in a single celebration”. “We should lay the ground for new goals, move forward with a new determination,” he said, pointing...
Modi orders August 14 to be observed as Partition Horrors Day
Underscoring that pain of Partition can never be forgotten, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that August 14 will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, a day before India’s Independence Day. Pakistan celebrates its Independence Day on August 14. “Partition’s pains can never be forgotten. Millions of our...
India among nations not ready to recognize Taliban rule
New Delhi: India, Germany, Qatar, Turkey and several other nations have reaffirmed to not recognise any government in Afghanistan that is imposed through the use of military force and called for an immediate end to violence and attacks in the war-torn country. A statement issued by Qatar on Friday...
