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Afghanistans most popular film personalities Sahraa Karimi. (AFP Photo)

The world was silent: Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi on Taliban...

The world was silent and didn't believe that the Taliban would come to the town and take over the capital of the...

22 Aug 2021 7:40 PM IST

Shrine of Guru Nanak Dev in Kartarpur, Pakistan. (PTI)

Pakistan to allow fully-vaccinated Sikh pilgrims to visit Kartarpur...

Pilgrimage to the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara was suspended in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak

22 Aug 2021 3:17 PM IST

A health worker inoculates a woman with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus during a vaccination drive in Hyderabad. (AFP)

The vaccinated are worried and scientists don't have answers

Absent clear public health messaging, vaccinated people are left confused about how to protect themselves

22 Aug 2021 12:44 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath paid his last respect to late Kalyan Singh. (ANI Photo)

PM Modi pays last respects to ex-UP CM Kalyan Singh in Lucknow

Former chief minister and BSP chief Mayawati also paid her tributes at Singh's residence at Lucknow's Mall Avenue this...

22 Aug 2021 11:30 AM IST

People evacuated from Kabul arrive at Hindon Air force base near New Delhi, India. Sunday, August 22, 2021. A special military flight carrying 168 people, which include 107 Indian nationals and 61 others, landed at Hindon Air force base near New Delhi. (AP)

India airlifts 392 from Afghanistan, more evacuation flights on the...

With Sunday's evacuation, the number of people brought back by India from Kabul reached around 590 since last Monday

22 Aug 2021 11:28 AM IST

A resident receives a nucleic acid test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Nanjing in Chinas eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo: AFP)

India's active COVID-19 cases lowest in 152 days

The death toll has climbed to 4,34,367 with 403 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am

22 Aug 2021 10:53 AM IST

A Taliban fighter walks past a beauty saloon with images of women defaced using a spray paint in Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on August 18, 2021. (AFP)

Pavan K. Varma | Leave Afghanistan alone; step up Kashmir defence

This does not mean that the Taliban, which has swept to power in the war-torn country, must be left alone to run havoc

22 Aug 2021 3:26 AM IST

We used to call paisa naya paisa at the time, because the decimal system had replaced the old one of 16 annas in a rupee in 1957. (DC Image)

Ranjona Banerji | How paisa got purana' & self-reliance lost currency

The old coins of 50 paisa and 25 paisa were called aath (eight) anna and char (four) anna

22 Aug 2021 2:28 AM IST

Inspector general of police Vijay Kumar. (Photo:ANI)

J&K IG alert to Taliban ingress

The IGP said that there are inputs about some fresh infiltration bids having been made from across the Line of Control...

22 Aug 2021 1:36 AM IST

A Taliban fighter stands guard along a road near the site of an Ashura procession which is held to mark the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, along a road in Herat on August 19, 2021, amid the Talibans military takeover of Afghanistan. (Photo:AFP)

15 held in Assam for pro-Taliban social media posts

Among those arrested were three maulanas, a police constable and an MBBS student of Tezpur Medical College

22 Aug 2021 1:34 AM IST

Sushmita is hoping to exploit her fathers association with the state to help establish the Trinamul Congress in Tripura. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | Can Sushmita swing it for TMC? Who heeds Dhami?

Sushmita's first task in her new party is to help the Trinamul Congress expand its footprint beyond West Bengal to this...

22 Aug 2021 1:02 AM IST

An Indian Army soldier stands guard near Nastachun pass, also known as Sadhana pass, about 8 Km from the Line of Control (LOC) in the district of Kupwara. (AFP)

Bad weather claims life of Army Jawan

The affected personnel were admitted at the military hospital in Pathankot and are being provided with required medical...

22 Aug 2021 12:05 AM IST