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Mohan Guruswamy | It's not for India to clean up the Afghanistan mess

If that Afghan situation were to boil over it will spill out mostly into Pakistan, a country quite dedicated to our...

8 Jun 2021 7:15 AM IST

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, May 28, 2021. (AP/PTI)

Stage set for Jaishankar, Blinken talks

The visit is likely to be watched closely by both China and India's time-tested friend Russia

28 July 2021 10:30 AM IST

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, May 28, 2021. (AP/PTI)

Rights, democracy crucial for India

Jaishankar to tell US secretary of Indian values

26 July 2021 9:13 AM IST

Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle which was firing rockets in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. At least three rockets hit near the presidential palace on Tuesday shortly before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was to give an address to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid-a-Adha. (AP)

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Afghan turmoil, Pak role: What keeps India...

The spectre of Afghanistan again under the fundamentalist Taliban haunts global thinking

21 July 2021 12:28 AM IST

Indian Air Force (IAF) Chinook helicopter flies amid the prolonged India-China stand off in the Ladakh region, in Leh, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. (PTI)

Indian Air Force C-17, C-130J aircraft return home from Afghan...

IAF aircraft were also used for evacuating Indian officials stuck in Mazar-e-Sharif and Kandahar consulates

30 Aug 2021 5:43 PM IST

Defence Minister Rajnath SIngh addresses at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, Tamil Nadu, Sunday, Aug 29, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Changing Afghan power equations a challenge for India, rethinking...

Singh said the defence ministry was seriously considering the formation of Integrated Battle Groups

30 Aug 2021 6:49 AM IST

An Indian embassy staff member with his family arrives at Air force base, in Jamnagar, India, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. A special military flight with Indian officials landed in Gujarat after taking off from Kabuls main airport on Tuesday. (Gujarat State Information Office via AP)

Most Indians in Afghanistan back home

India on Friday said the question of recognition of a new government in Afghanistan was tantamount to 'jumping the gun'

28 Aug 2021 7:13 AM IST

In the Taliban pecking order, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar sits on top, with Mullah Mohammad Yakub, son of founder Mullah Omar, coming next. (File Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | India's options limited as Pakistan makes hay in Kabul

Three nations that didn't withdraw diplomatic missions from Kabul are Pakistan, China and Russia

28 Aug 2021 1:52 AM IST

External affairs minister S. Jaishankar. (Photo: PTI)

India digs in for long haul in Afghan: Evacuation is top priority,...

On Thursday, an Indian Air Force special flight evacuated 24 Indian nationals and 11 Nepalese from Kabul to New Delhi

26 Aug 2021 11:56 PM IST

Marzia Babakarkhail.

Afghanistan has changed, women will fight back'

Marzia Babakarkhail has zero regrets for taking on the Taliban and is planning her return

27 Aug 2021 12:54 AM IST

Families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk through the terminal before boarding a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (AP Photo)

Afghans can visit India only on e-visa

Previously issued visas to all Afghan nationals, who are presently not in India, stand invalidated with immediate effect

26 Aug 2021 12:33 AM IST

A plane carrying evacuees from the virus zone in China lands at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Wednesday. PTI image

Ukraine, Iran deny hijacking of evacuation plane from Afghanistan:...

Ukraine's deputy foreign minister Yevgeny Yenin had claimed that a Ukrainian plane was hijacked in Afghanistan by...

24 Aug 2021 5:57 PM IST