Amid the Taliban’s attempt to project themselves as moderates, US President Joe Biden said he doesn’t think the Islamist fundamentalists have changed at all and appeared more committed to their beliefs. In an interview with ABC aired on Thursday, Biden raised apprehensions about the Taliban wanting to be recognised asRead More

New Delhi: Khalida Popal, the former Afghan women’s soccer team captain has reached out to her players and advised them to delete their social media handles, photos and erase public identities to keep themselves safe with the country once again going under Taliban rule. Popal, who is based out ofRead More

New Delhi: India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar highlighted the growing activity of Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed in Afghanistan, urging the United Nations Security Council “to not take a selective, tactical or complacent view of the problems we face”. Speaking at the UNSC meeting on terrorism, EAM said,Read More

An Olympic athlete from Poland auctioned her silver medal from the Tokyo Games to raise money for a life-saving operation for an infant boy, and then was told by the buyer that she could keep her prize. Maria Andrejczyk, a 25-year-old javelin thrower who overcame bone cancer and a shoulderRead More

Chandigarh, August 19, 2021: To safeguard the interests of cane growers in the state, the Punjab Chief Minister captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday approved the hike of Rs. 15 per quintal in the State Agreed Price (SAP) of all sugarcane varieties for the crushing season, 2021-22. With this decision, theRead More

Always the one to serve steamy looks be it from her exotic vacay in Maldives or set life in Mumbai, television hottie Erica Fernandes once again left the fashion police smitten with her sartorial elegance in a chiffon saree as she posed for some viral pictures with Kuch Rang PyaarRead More

New Delhi: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday (August 18, 2021) said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s humble background enables him to feel the pain of poor and helpless people. He was speaking while chairing the ‘Aarogya Dhara – 2.0’ event to mark the completionRead More

Geneva: Current data does not indicate that COVID-19 booster shots are needed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, adding that the most vulnerable people worldwide should be fully vaccinated before high-income countries deploy a top-up. The comments came just before the US government said it planned to makeRead More

The United Kingdom has so far evacuated more than 300 British nationals and over 2,000 Afghan citizens, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Parliament on Wednesday. Johnson made the remarks during his address to the Parliament which has been recalled to discuss the crisis situation in Afghanistan. ‘We have soRead More

Caste as an issue is rarely commented on in Hindi cinema as it is not conventionally entertaining, believes veteran actor Amol Palekar, who is returning to films after a considerable gap of 12 years with 200 – Halla Ho, a true story of Dalit women who attacked a rapist inRead More