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Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP)

Taliban sweep into Afghan capital after government collapses

Taliban official said the group would announce from the palace the restoration of the 'Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan'

16 Aug 2021 11:51 AM 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)

India's active caseload declines to 3,81,947, the lowest in last 145...

The country reported 32,937 fresh infections on Monday, and 417 new fatalities, mostly from Maharashtra (130) and Kerala...

16 Aug 2021 11:38 AM IST

While speaking at the main ID function in Srinagars Sher-i-Kashmir Cricket Stadium, J&K Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, said that the jungle raj in the erstwhile state ended on the eve of 2020 and the grassroots level democracy was strengthened in the UT through the conduct of violence-free district development council (DDC) elections. DC Image

Burhan Wani's father hoists tricolour at a school in J&K's Tral

For the first time in many years, the Internet and mobile phone services remained unaffected on ID in J&K

16 Aug 2021 9:16 AM IST

In FY18, the government had completed the scheduled borrowing of Rs 1.02 lakh crore through Small Savings Scheme). (Representational image)

Freedom from financial woes

Your household expenses should not be more than 30-35 per cent of your income

16 Aug 2021 9:03 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation, during the 75th Independence Day function at the historic Red Fort, in New Delhi, Sunday, August 15, 2021. (PTI Photo)

PM Modi unveils 25-year roadmap of new India with ambitious schemes

PM Modi began his speech by praising India's athletes who took part in the Tokyo Olympics and were in attendance at Red...

16 Aug 2021 7:21 AM IST

Incremental but meaningful gains in what is still a deeply conservative, male-dominated society: Girls are now in school, and women are in Parliament, government and business. (AFP)

Afghan women fear return to 'dark days' amid Taliban sweep

In just a few minutes, everything changed for the 26-year-old resident of Herat, Afghanistan's third-largest city

16 Aug 2021 3:42 AM IST

Amid ongoing fear of aftershocks, virtually the entire population of that city spent Saturday night outdoors, sleeping in front of their homes or what was left of them. (AFP)

Death toll in massive Haiti quake jumps to 724: govt

Churches, businesses, schools and homes crumbled in Saturday's quake that trapped hundreds of victims under

16 Aug 2021 3:19 AM IST

The post-Covid world isnt here yet, but with each wave we understand how different that world will be. Representational Image. (PTI)

Kishwar Desai | 3 plus 2 vs WFH, shops-to-homes: Getting ready for a...

Not everyone is prepared to come back to work in offices, but prefer to be somewhere in the country and logging in when...

16 Aug 2021 3:03 AM IST

He will have lunch with residents of Gandhi Bhavan Sneharamam old age home at Wandoor in Malappuram on 17th. (PTI)

Rahul Gandhi to visit Wayanad from August 16-18

On August 16, he will unveil Mahatma Gandhi's statue at Gandhi Park in Mananthavady

16 Aug 2021 2:51 AM IST

Terminal students have to leave the hostel by September 23, which is making them unsure of accommodation with narrow financial capacity. (ANI)

Afghan students at JNU fear to go back, seek visa extension

JNU administration released a press note on August 14

16 Aug 2021 2:17 AM IST

More than 50,000 internally displaced people, a large number of them being women and children, are said to have taken refuge in parks and on pavements in Kabul which would fall at the pleasure of the insurgency leadership. (PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | A new Afghan turn that New Delhi didn't notice

India has sufficient goodwill in diverse quarters in Afghanistan, but it gave no impression of leveraging this

16 Aug 2021 2:08 AM IST

Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Kandahar, southwest Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (Representational Photo:AP)

India's infrastructure in Afghanistan at stake

It is learnt that a fleet of the C-17 Globemaster military transport aircraft of the IAF is kept on standby to undertake...

16 Aug 2021 12:00 AM IST