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Afghan nationals line up to board a military transport plane at the Kabul airport on August 17, 2021, for evacuation from Afghanistan after the Talibans military takeover of the country. (AFP)

Indians detained on way to Kabul airport; Released subsequently:...

India on Saturday evacuated around 80 Indian nationals from Kabul by a transport military aircraft of the Indian Air...

21 Aug 2021 5:33 PM IST

Vande Bharats second trial run was successfully completed in Kanpur Central Railway station, earlier this month. (Photo: ANI)

Indian Railways introduces new features for Vande Bharat trains

These new trains will also be provided with higher flood protection underframe equipment to ensure reliability during...

21 Aug 2021 5:27 PM IST

Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi after paying tribute to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Friday, Aug 20, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Sonia's sonic call for Opposition unity

The 19 parties pledged in a four-page joint statement to start an agitation against the Central govt in the last 10 days...

21 Aug 2021 1:17 AM IST

Zydus Cadilas COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D. (Photo:Zyduscadila)

Zydus Cadila's Covid vaccine ZyCoV-D gets approval for Emergency Use...

ZyCoV-D has become the first vaccine to be administered to those in the age group of 12-18 years in the country

20 Aug 2021 10:54 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inauguration and foundation stone laying of multiple projects in Gujarat, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Friday, Aug 20, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Terror forces can dominate for some time, but their existence not...

The prime minister's remarks come in the wake of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

20 Aug 2021 10:13 PM IST

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi. (PTI Photo)

Sonia Gandhi chairs meeting of opposition parties

The opposition parties are likely to discuss joint strategy to take on the BJP-led government on various issues

20 Aug 2021 7:09 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan (PTI)

MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan proposes renaming Jabalpur Airport after...

The CM further announced that in the coming days every airport in each district in Madhya Pradesh would be functional

20 Aug 2021 3:48 PM IST

A health worker administers the vaccine for COVID-19 in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)

COVID-19: India reports 36,571 new infections, active cases lowest in...

A reduction of 524 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours

20 Aug 2021 10:51 AM IST

Shiite Muslim worshippers gather around the shrine of Imam Abbas during a Muharram procession in Karbala, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shiites in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. AP/PTI

Partial Muharram ban in Srinagar; lakhs of mourners attend tazia...

Zuljinah and tazia processions and sham-e-garibaan' rallies were permitted in predominantly Shia areas of Srinagar...

20 Aug 2021 9:52 AM IST

This handout photo courtesy of US Marines Corps shows US Marines assigned to 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit escort evacuees during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 18, 2021. (Nicholas GUEVARA / US Marine Corps/ AFP)

IAF may resume evacuation of Indians from Kabul today

Minister S. Jaishankar told the UN Security Council that the terrorist Haqqani Network's activities in Afghanistan were...

20 Aug 2021 7:27 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (PTI)

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to inaugurate country's first smog tower on...

Environment Min Gopal Rai said the smog tower will clean 1,000 cubic metres of air every second and reduce PM 2.5 and PM...

19 Aug 2021 6:49 PM IST

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a man during a Covid-19 coronavirus screening in Mumbai (Sujit Jaiswal / AFP)

Over 50 crore samples tested for COVID-19 in India till now: ICMR

On July 21, 2021, India had tested 45 crore COVID-19 samples, which reached the 50-crore mark on August 18, 2021

19 Aug 2021 12:10 PM IST