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  Leave Afghanistan by August 31 or face 'action': Taliban warn US

  India | August 24, 2021 15:42 IST

  The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the United States was set to complete its troop withdrawal.

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  PM Modi asks MEA to brief Opposition on developments in Afghanistan

  India | August 23, 2021 14:29 IST

  The Taliban swept across Afghanistan this month, seizing control of almost all key towns and cities, including Kabul, following the withdrawal of the US forces from the country.

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  Afghanistan: Rescued Sikhs carrying 3 Guru Granth Sahib ji to India on IAF aircraft

  India | August 24, 2021 15:36 IST

  Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri had said last week that the Indian authorities are in touch with a group of Sikhs taking shelter in a gurudwara near Kabul, and that they will be brought to India as soon as possible.

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  Troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was 'logical, rational and right decision': Joe Biden

  World | August 23, 2021 10:31 IST

  The US is also evacuating the citizens of NATO allies and its partners, including their diplomats, embassy staff who remain in Afghanistan and to get them back to their homes as well.  

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  Biden to consider sanctions against Taliban 'depending on conduct'

  World | August 23, 2021 7:44 IST

  Joe Biden on Sunday refused to rule out possible sanctions against the Taliban after the group's takeover of Afghanistan last week.

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  US President Joe Biden to update on Afghanistan situation

  World | August 22, 2021 23:11 IST

  At the one-week mark since the Taliban completed its takeover of the country, U.S. officials expressed growing concern about the threat to the evacuation from the Islamic State group. That worry comes on top of obstacles to that mission from the Taliban, as well as U.S. government bureaucratic problems.

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  Haqikat Kya Hai: Watch special report on India's operation airlift from Kabul

  Hakikat Kya Hai | August 22, 2021 21:54 IST

  A total of 168 people including 107 Indians and 23 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, were flown from Kabul to the Hindon airbase near Delhi in a C-17 heavy-lift military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF).

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  'All roads deserted in Kabul except one leading to airport'

  India | August 22, 2021 21:31 IST

  India on Sunday evacuated 168 passengers including 107 Indian nationals through Indian Air Force's C-17 aircraft that landed at IAF's Hindon Air Base.

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  Taliban 50: Watch all News update about Taliban | August 22, 2021

  News | August 22, 2021 20:08 IST

  Watch the latest news about Taliban in this Taliban 50 News bulletin | August 22, 2021

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  UK PM Boris Johnson to discuss Afghanistan in G7 meeting on Tuesday

  World | August 22, 2021 19:33 IST

  I will convene G7 leaders on Tuesday for urgent talks on the situation in Afghanistan, says UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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  Afghanistan going through difficult time, intl support will end miseries: Envoy to India

  World | August 22, 2021 18:23 IST

  Afghanistan  Ambassador to India Farid Mamundzay also appreciated the words of sympathy and support messages from all "Indian friends" and the diplomatic missions in New Delhi over the suffering of Afghans in the past few weeks.  

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  Afghanistan Vice President fled to Dubai with $51 million in cash

  World | August 22, 2021 16:58 IST

  US diplomatic cables revealed one Afghan Vice President flew to Dubai with 38 million pounds ($51 million) in cash, and that drug traffickers and corrupt officials were shifting 170 million pounds ($231 million) a week out of a country where average incomes were scarcely 430 pounds ($585) a year, the report said.  

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  3 flights with Indian nationals from Kabul land at IGI Airport

  World | August 22, 2021 16:24 IST

  Air India, Vistara, and IndiGo carrying Indian nationals from Kabul landed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport Terminal 3 on Sunday Morning.

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  Non-Muslims in Afghanistan must pay jaziya: UK hate preacher

  World | August 22, 2021 15:53 IST

  Anjem Choudary, 54, who inspired a generation of jihadi fighters and dozens of terrorist murders, also wants to ban music and mixing between sexes, and says non-Muslims should pay an "infidel tax", the Daily Mail reported.  

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  'Everything is finished': Afghan MP, evacuated from Kabul, breaks down upon landing in India

  India | August 24, 2021 13:53 IST

  "The Taliban is troubling MPs, senators and others by conducting searches in their homes and seizing guns and vehicles," the MP said.

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  168 people including 107 Indians evacuated from Kabul Airport

  News | August 22, 2021 13:08 IST

  A total of 168 people including 107 Indians and 23 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, were flown from Kabul to the Hindon airbase near Delhi in a C-17 heavy-lift military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF).

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  Seven Afghan nations killed in a stampede at Kabul Airport

  News | August 22, 2021 13:00 IST

  While the atrocities of Taliban continues in Afghanistan, a stampede at Kabul Airport took the lives of seven Afghan nationals.

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  Afghan returnees to be vaccinated against polio in India: Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya

  India | August 22, 2021 12:25 IST

  India on Sunday evacuated 168 people including 107 Indians from Kabul in a military transport aircraft of the IAF amid the deteriorating security situation in the Afghan capital city following its takeover by the Taliban a week back.

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  Suspension of banking services, massive inflation: Challenges before common man in Kabul

  World | August 22, 2021 8:30 IST

  There has been no formal announcement about the opening of government banks while private banks have announced to remain closed indefinitely.

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  Baby passed over a wall at Kabul airport reunited with family

  World | August 22, 2021 7:40 IST

  One video showed an American serviceman reaching over a barbed wire-fitted wall to grab a baby with one hand and haul it into the protected compound.