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New Delhi, Sep 1: A major controversy has broken out in the western media over whether the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport on Thursday could have been averted had the decision of the top Pentagon commanders to shut the Abbey Gate on Thursday af…

New Delhi, Sep 1: While the Taliban are celebrating the exit of the US forces after two decades of war by firing shots in the air, a lone anti-Taliban province stands firm in the mountains of the Panjshir region. Ahmad Massoud, the son of a legendary …

New Delhi, Sep 1 : The first day of September started with a record 24-hour rainfall in large parts of Delhi prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue an orange alert for Delhi-NCR on Wednesday.For the 24 hours ending at 8.30 a.m.,…

Srinagar, Sep 1 : The growing influence of international music on traditional Kashmiri music has stirred a hot debate in Kashmir. There is no doubt that during the last decade western musical instruments like guitar, synthesisers, drums and bells wer…

New Delhi, Sep 1 : When actor Ananya Sengupta signed her first supernatural thriller, ‘The Final Exit, her gut might have warned that it may not do well at the box-office, but she was proven wrong. “Over the past two decades, the audience has warmed …

Hyderabad, Sep 1 : At a time when India has set a national strategic plan to eradicate Tuberculosis by 2025, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and other partners have joined forces with the country to achieve this goal.Baghya Raju K…

Panaji, Aug 31 : Wild boars, a species which the Goa government wants classified as ‘vermin’, are a major prey for leopards in Goa’s wild as well as habitation fringe areas, a study conducted by the Goa Forest department and the Goa University’s Zool…

New Delhi, Aug 31: With the power structure changing swiftly in Afghanistan, political realignments are happening.The US is no longer interested in carrying on with its intervention in Afghanistan while Russia and China seem to be showing a symmetry wi…

New Delhi, Aug 31: As the Taliban are now inching closer to forming a government in Afghanistan, a critical question has come to the fore — how will the newly formed dispensation get the necessary financial resources to run the country.One of the most…

New Delhi, Aug 31: China, which has praised the Afghan Taliban for being “more clear-headed and rational than it was in power last time”, suddenly finds itself on shaky ground.A more circumspect Beijing is now urging “all parties”, including the United…