Mumbai, Aug 18 The Reserve Bank on Wednesday came out with revised guidelines for the hiring of lockers under which the liability of banks will be limited to 100 times its annual rent in case of fire, theft, building collapse or frauds by bank employees. As per the revised guidelines, which shall come into effect […]
Jammu, Aug 19 An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 hit Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur-Katra belt in the early hours of Thursday, officials said. The temblor occurred 54 km south-east of Katra at 5.08 am, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said. The epicentre of the earthquake was five km below the surface of the earth at latitude […]
New Delhi, Aug 18 More than seven years after businesswoman Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel here, a Delhi court on Wednesday cleared her husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor of all charges in the case. Tharoor, who was present when Special Judge Geetanjali Goel pronounced the order in a virtual hearing, […]
New Delhi: India has added 36,401 new COVID-19 infections, taking the total tally of cases to 3,23,22,258, while the death toll has climbed to 4,33,049 with 530 more fatalities, according to Union health ministry data updated on Thursday. The national recovery rate has improved to 97.52 per cent, the highest since March last year, according to […]
Washington:) Educated young women, former US military translators and other Afghans most at-risk from the Taliban appealed to the Biden administration to get them on evacuation flights as the US struggled on Wednesday to bring order to the continuing chaos at the Kabul airport. Afghans in danger because of their work with the American military, and […]
Washington: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has said that the US military doesn’t have the capacity at this point to extend security forces beyond the perimeter of the Kabul airport in order to get more civilians safely evacuated out of Afghanistan. Afghans and aid organisations have said that citizens are having a hard time getting past […]
Washingto: US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is committed to keeping US troops in Afghanistan until every American is evacuated, even if that means maintaining a military presence there beyond his August 31 deadline for withdrawal. He also pushed back against criticism that the US should have done more to plan for […]
United Nations: The head of the UN food agency in Afghanistan has said that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding with 14 million people facing severe hunger following the Taliban takeover of the country. Mary Ellen McGroarty, the World Food Program’s country director, said in a video briefing to UN correspondents from Kabul on Wednesday that […]
Washington: The US State Department has released a joint statement signed by about two dozen nations expressing concern for the rights of Afghan women and girls and urging those in power in Afghanistan to guarantee their protection.” Wednesday’s statement was signed by the United States, Britain, the European Union and 18 other countries. It says […]
United Nations: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar discussed the situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in Kabul in his bilateral meetings here, including with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Jaishankar arrived in New York Monday as the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on the situation in Afghanistan, the second time in […]