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In this file photo taken on June 6, 2019 a US military Chinook helicopter lands on a field outside the governors palace during a visit by the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller, and Asadullah Khalid, acting minister of defense of Afghanistan, in Maidan Shar, capital of Wardak province. US President Donald Trump denied on June 28, 2020 being briefed on intelligence that reportedly showed Russia had offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan. (Photo | AFP)

'US-Taliban deal won't ensure that Afghanistan soil won't be used to...

Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, defense officials and Afghan experts say the Taliban is not living up to the...

4 July 2020 10:19 PM IST

The Netherlands will not be the first member state whose ID cards omit gender. The German ID card does not include it.

Contents of your underwear do not concern the govt': Gender off Dutch...

In a letter to parliament, Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven said gender categories would be omitted from ID cards from...

4 July 2020 9:06 PM IST

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar visits a COVID-19 facility on Saturday. (PTI)

COVID-19 continues to trouble India as Centre revises treatment...

During the last 24 hours, 14,335 patients have been discharged, taking the cumulative figure to 3,94,226.

4 July 2020 9:01 PM IST

A woman looks at books in a public library in Hong Kong on July 4, 2020. - Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the citys libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub.The new security law and the removal of books raises questions of whether academic freedom still exists. (Photo | AFP)

Hong Kong libraries remove books on democracy fearing it may violate...

The national security law is fundamentally a tool to incriminate speech, wrote author and activist Joshua Wong on...

4 July 2020 8:26 PM IST

High Tide in Bandra. (Age Photo: Rajesh Jadhav)

Rains continue to lash Mumbai and adjoining areas for the second...

There have also been 19 complaints of tree/branches falling, but nobody was injured in the incidents.

4 July 2020 7:11 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to a forward location in Nimu in Ladakh. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of Modi's Galwan, COVID...

It has become clear by now that Modi is uncomfortable with the nitty-gritty, and with details

4 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

Desperate times call for desperate measures. In times of national crisis, people look to their politicians for leadership and direction. Photo: Deepak Deshpande, DC.

KCR should unlock newer strategies to fight C-virus in Telangana

As the Covid-19 tally continued to climb, a desperate KCR even wished that reporters writing negative news be infected...

4 July 2020 5:59 PM IST

The Kolkata police however brushed aside the allegation. Representational Image. (Photo: PTI)

Kolkata woman killed in moving taxi, body dumped in a canal; cabbie...

A driver of a mobile application-based taxi service has been arrested.

4 July 2020 5:58 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets soldiers who were injured in the recent Galwan Valley clash with the Chinese Army, at Leh in Ladakh. (PTI)

PM did visit hospital, not conference hall, clarifies Army

Indian Army trashes trolls who questioned the PM's visit to forward areas in Ladakh

4 July 2020 5:45 PM IST

BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia comes out of the Raj Bhavan after attending a swearing-in ceremony for the Cabinet expansion of the Madhya Pradesh government, in Bhopal. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Scindia triumph a lesson to all

Mr Scindia's triumph in securing a dominant role in the Madhya Pradesh government should also serve as a lesson to the...

4 July 2020 5:24 PM IST

File photo of Italian marines Salvatore Girone, left, and Massimiliano Latorre, arriving at the Ciampino Rome airport from Kochi, India. AP Photo

AA Edit | Immunity of Italian marines who shot Indians questionable

It is perplexing that government of India chose to keep secret the order, which was issued on May 21 this year

4 July 2020 5:04 PM IST

Tourists browse a gift store featuring US President Donald Trump campaign items in Keystone, South Dakota on July 2, 2020. Social media is virtually a Trump shop full of buyers. On Twitter, Donald Trumps 82.4 million followers dwarf Bidens 6.4 million. The president has spent years cultivating a ragtag digital army of meme makers and political influencers who retweet campaign messages hundreds of times daily. Trump is outspending Biden on Google and YouTube advertising by nearly 3 to 1. (Photo | AFP)

Donald Trump is way ahead of Joe Biden if this were a social media...

Trump's steady retweets of everyday users helps fans feel connected to him' while Biden remains traditional and promotes...

4 July 2020 5:02 PM IST