Category: NATIONAL NEWS

A group of Indian nationals is learnt to have been stopped and taken to an unknown location near the Kabul airport on Saturday for questioning and verification of travel documents, triggering some confusion and concerns in India. People tracking the developments in Kabul said there were no specific reports of any harm to Indians in Kabul so far. The Indians were among 150 people who were heading towards the Kabul airport when they were stopped by Taliban fighters, according to Afghan media reports. The Indians were learnt to have been…

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 Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and State Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday agreed to set up a 10-member strategic policy group to ensure better coordination between the party and the state government and expedite implementation of various government programmes. The development is seen as a sign of thaw between Singh and Sidhu, amid the ongoing tussle between the two of them. In another development, the chief minister has deputed his ministers to sit at Congress Bhawan here for interacting with the party cadre and public. Congress president Sonia…

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“Whether Afghanistan or against India, terror groups like Lashkar e Taiba and Jaish e Mohammed continue to operate with impunity,” Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said. Foreign minister S Jaishankar detailed India’s concerns about terror for the first time since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, naming specific groups in another first. “Whether in Afghanistan or against India, groups like Lashkar-e Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed continue to operate with impunity and encouragement… Heightened activities of the proscribed Haqqani network justify growing anxiety,” he said in an address to the United Nations Security Council…

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US President Joe Biden has conceded that the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan happened “more quickly” than anticipated, but insisted that he remains “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw American troops from the war-torn country, amidst “gut-wrenching” images emerging out of Kabul. In his address to the nation from the White House on Monday following the dramatic fall of the Afghan national government to the Taliban, a defiant Biden rejected blame for messy pull out amid chaotic scenes of Afghans clinging to US military planes in Kabul in a desperate bid…

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“The government will take all steps to ensure the safety and security of Indian nationals and our interests in Afghanistan,” the foreign ministry said. Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan will be given priority once commercial flight service begins from Kabul, India said today — a day after Taliban took control of the city. As panic-stricken Afghans gathered at the airport to skip the war-torn country, India said it would “facilitate repatriation to India of those who wish to leave Afghanistan”. “The government will take all steps to ensure the safety…

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Referring to statements made by analysts that modern aircraft carriers were a liability, Commodore Vidhyadhar Harke, who will command India’s new carrier, Vikrant, has said that these were “a misplaced notion or statement”. India needs at least three operational aircraft carriers to maintain its presence across its areas of maritime interest, underlined the Indian Navy amid claims that these carriers were a “liability”. Referring to statements made by analysts that modern aircraft carriers were a liability, Commodore Vidhyadhar Harke, who will command India’s new carrier, Vikrant, has said that these…

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PM Modi’s Independence Day Address: The Prime Minister paid tribute to all the past leaders who fought the long and hard battle for Independence.Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for “100 per cent” in terms of growth on the 75th Independence Day, which is being marked as the “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav” with two-year-long celebrations. 1.”Now we have to move towards saturation. 100% villages have roads, 100% households have bank accounts, 100% beneficiaries have Ayushman Bharat cards, 100% eligible persons have Ujjwala gas connections,” PM Modi said 2.The Prime Minister said…

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