Monday, May 20, 2024 | Last Update : 08:40 PM IST
Afghanistan Page-21
Taliban suicide attack at Kabul restaurant
A Taliban suicide car bomber hit a French restaurant popular with foreigners in Kabul Friday, in a New Year’s day attack that marks the latest in a series of brazen insurgent assaults.
02 Jan 2016 6:13 AM
Loud blast hits Afghanistan's capital Kabul: report
Blast was heard close to a district containing many foreign embassies.
01 Jan 2016 5:56 PM
Afghanistan: One killed, 4 injured in suicide car bomb blast near airport in Kabul
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the insurgents were behind the suicide attack on a foreign forces convoy, claiming that "several invading forces were killed and wounded".
28 Dec 2015 12:02 PM
Taliban deny talks with Russia on ISIS
The Taliban have denied they held talks with Russia about countering the spread of Islamic State (ISIS) in Afghanistan, and dismissed the influence of the jihadist group in the country.
28 Dec 2015 6:17 AM
Pakistan agrees to revive Afghan talks
Pakistan’s powerful Army Chief General Raheel Sharif Sunday held wide-ranging talks with Afghanistan’s top leadership on ways to revive stalled peace talks with the Taliban and agreed to hold a quadri
28 Dec 2015 6:15 AM
Strong 6.2 magnitude quake rocks northeast Afghanistan
At least 30 people were injured in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
26 Dec 2015 9:32 AM
Kabuliwalla to zanjeer in speech
The memorable portrayal of a pathan Sher Khan by actor Pran in Bollywood movie Zanjeer on Friday found its way into diplomacy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned it to underscore how Indians vi
26 Dec 2015 2:17 AM
In Afghan Parliament, a swipe at Islamabad
In a veiled attack against Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that Afghanistan will succeed only when terrorism no longer flows across the border and when nurseries and sanctuaries
26 Dec 2015 12:50 AM
Afghanistan soldiers thwart Taliban onslaughts
Afghan forces backed by US airstrikes pushed back a Taliban onslaught Thursday in a strategically imporstant district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, officials said.
25 Dec 2015 11:27 PM
Afghan bus crash kills at least 24
At least 24 people were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine after a head-on collision with a truck in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Friday, in the latest deadly road accident.
25 Dec 2015 11:24 PM
Narendra Modi announces 500 scholarships for children of slain Afghan forces
Modi said India's scheme of 1,000 scholarships every year for Afghan students will...
25 Dec 2015 3:23 PM
Afghanistan will succeed when terrorism no longer flows across the border, says Modi
Narendra Modi inaugurated the new Afghan Parliament build by India in Kabul.
25 Dec 2015 12:24 PM
Narendra Modi inaugurates new Afghan Parliament built by India in Kabul
Modi will inaugurate Afghanistan’s new Parliament building, constructed by India.
25 Dec 2015 11:37 AM
US airstrikes in Helmand to help thwart Taliban
The US launched airstrikes to bolster Afghan forces scrambling Thursday to beat back Taliban insurgents who seized large swathes of a key opium-rich district, following the first British deployment t
25 Dec 2015 5:47 AM
Southern district of Helmand province remains in state control: Afghan officials
Afghan military airstrikes bombarded Taliban strongholds in Sangin overnight, killing 25...
24 Dec 2015 12:55 PM
Pak-backed Afghan peace talks may restart in weeks
Taliban bomber kills six Nato troops as violence rises
22 Dec 2015 6:00 AM
Taliban bomber kills three NATO soldiers near Kabul: officials
Three Afghan policemen were also injured in the attack, says police.
21 Dec 2015 5:51 PM
Taliban fighter treated alongside angry soldiers in Afghan hospital
He is cared for alongside the very men whose comrades he once faced in battle.
21 Dec 2015 11:27 AM
Afghan official: Helmand may fall to Taliban
Afghanistan’s Helmand province could fall to the Taliban after months of heavy fighting, with 90 members of the security forces killed over the past two days, the deputy governor of the volatile south
20 Dec 2015 11:03 PM
Ashton Carter on surprise Afghan visit
US defence secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Afghanistan Friday on an unannounced visit, officials said, with media reporting his trip was aimed at assessing the deteriorating security situation in t
18 Dec 2015 11:01 PM
Columns
On May 25, voting with hope for an India that values its rich tapestry of languages, religions, and cultures against rising homogeneity
ICMR's dietary guidelines highlight the urgent need for balanced nutrition in India
Exploring the absurdities that define us, from ritual obsessions to our undying love for sentiment and image.
As the 14th Dalai Lama ages, Tibet and its exiled community brace for potential power shifts and increased tensions with China.