PM MODI CHAIRS TOP MEETING ON AFGHANISTAN AS TALIBAN ENTER PANJSHIR VALLEY Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting to discuss the situation in Afghanistan shortly after the Taliban captured the main road and some administrative buildings on the floor of the Pan
INDIA'S PARALYMPIANS BEAT THE ODDS, COME HOME WITH 19 MEDALS Inspirational, incredible and indomitable. India's paralympians were all these and much more in an epoch-making campaign at the Tokyo Games, where an unparalleled 19 medals, including 5 gold, helped them sign off 24th
TOO EARLY TO TALK ABOUT RECOGNIZING THE TALIBAN REGIME: MEA India's immediate focus in Afghanistan is to ensure that Afghan soil is not used for terrorist activities against it and it was still "very early days" to talk about any possible recognition to the Taliban, the external
WON’T MEDDLE IN KASHMIR, SAY TALIBAN The youngest member of the Taliban peace committee, Anas Haqqani, asked India and Pakistan to not use Afghanistan “as a pawn” since they had a long enough border to settle the matter among themselves.
LEADERS FROM ALL WALKS IN PM-LED PANEL TO MARK 75 YEARS OF FREEDOM The government issued a gazette notification late on Friday evening, announcing a high-level national committee to commemorate 75 years of Independence, to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
INDIA OFFICIALLY TALKS TO TALIBAN IN DOHA, RAISES TERRORISM CONCERN In the first formal and publicly acknowledged contact, Indian Ambassador to Qatar Deepak Mittal met senior Taliban leader Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai on Tuesday and conveyed India's concerns that Afghanistan's
INDIA WANTS SOLUTION THROUGH DIALOGUE, WON’T ALLOW UNILATERAL ACTION ON LAC: DEFENCE MINISTER Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that India wants a solution to the border dispute with China through dialogue and asserted that the government would never allow the
TALIBAN MAKES OVERTURES TO INDIA In what is being seen as a signal to India, a member of the Taliban leadership in Qatar has said that India is “very important for this subcontinent” and that his group wants to continue Afghanistan’s “cultural”, &ld
WAITING, WATCHING, SAYS GOVT AS OPP SEEKS CLARITY ON ITS TALIBAN STRATEGY The govt is adopting a “wait-and-watch” approach in dealing with the Taliban, depending on the evolving situation, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday while briefing all-par
TWO CONGRESS POTS SIMMER, IN PUNJAB AND CHHATTISGARH The Congress is battling to contain rebellions threatening its governments in Punjab and Chhattisgarh, despite the high command stepping in.
