- Monday, February 24, 2025
A FIREFIGHT started on Monday (23) between unidentified gunmen, western security forces and Afghan guards at the Kabul airport, sources in the German Army said, as thousands of Afghans and foreigners rushed to the airport to flee the Taliban rule that resumed in the war-torn nation after almost 20 years.…
TWO senators from Afghanistan were among the 24 Sikhs who reached India on Sunday (22) morning after the Taliban took control of the country in the wake of the western forces’ withdrawal. One of them, Senator Narendra Singh Khalsa, broke down when asked about the situation in the war-torn nation.…
INDIAN start-ups got about $6.5 billion in funding in the period between April and June 2021 and 11 of them entered the unicorn club, a report by Nasscom-PGA Labs revealed, adding that the country’s start-up ecosystem has shown a “strong resilience” despite a devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.…
INDIA stands second in terms of crypto adoption worldwide behind Vietnam, and ahead of countries such as the US, the UK, and China, according to the 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index by blockchain data platform Chainalysis. The report also revealed that worldwide crypto adoption grew by 880 per cent between…
WHEN the New Delhi-bound Kam Airlines flight finally took off from Kabul airport hours before the Taliban entered the city on August 15, Subrata, an Indian working in a senior position with an international NGO (INGO) posted in Afghanistan, sent up a silent prayer of thanks. Subrata had been able…
CHINA has asked Pakistan to overhaul the security mechanism to forestall attacks on its nationals working on various infrastructure projects after a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Chinese nationals in the Balochistan province. Two children were killed while a Chinese national and several others were injured in the suicide…
A US government report has said that Pakistan’s strategic security objectives in Afghanistan almost certainly continue to counter influence of its arch-rival India and mitigate the spill-over of the Afghan civil war into Pakistani territory. The report said thus citing inputs from the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA). “Pakistan continues to…
FORMER England pacer Steve Harmison feels Indian seamer Mohammed Siraj is like a “Duracell battery” of his side’s bowling attack, someone who steams in and bowls with 100 per cent accuracy every time captain Virat Kohli brings him into attack. Siraj came up with an impressive performance in the second…
INDIA on Sunday (22) celebrated the festival of Raksha Bandhan and besides the common man, political leaders and others wished people on the auspicious occasion to mark love between siblings. On the day, women of all ages tie a thread called ‘rakhi’ on the wrists of their brothers (who can…
INDIA on Sunday (22) evacuated 168 people, including 107 Indians, in a military transport aircraft from Kabul amid the deteriorating situation in the Afghanistan capital in the wake of the Taliban takeover on August 15. Also on Sunday morning, another group of 87 Indians and two Nepalese nationals who were…
