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Taliban fighters stand guard on the backdrop of shops selling antiques and decorative merchandise at Chicken Street in Kabul on September 26, 2021. The once-bustling hotspot, where aid workers and adventurous tourists would shop for vintage tribal rugs, pottery and metalware, is almost empty of visitors looking for a bargain. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

Taliban resumes passport services for Afghans

Khosti added that all female employees of the passport department have been asked to return to their jobs

5 Oct 2021 5:41 PM IST

High waves break on the Mutrah sea side promenade in the Omani capital Muscat on October 2, 2021, as the Shaheen tropical storm hits the country. (AFP)

Death toll in Cyclone Shaheen now 5 as storm moves into Oman

The Emirates, home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, had issued warnings to residents that the storm was coming

4 Oct 2021 11:15 AM IST

Taliban also announced that they will launch a program to send students abroad to pursue higher education. (Representational image: ANI)

Taliban to deploy suicide bombers to Afghanistan's borders

Ahmadi said that the battalion is named Lashkar-e-Mansoori -"Mansoor army-" and will be deployed to the borders of the...

2 Oct 2021 7:06 PM IST

A member of the Taliban special forces pushes a journalist (L) covering a demonstration by women protestors outside a school in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)

Rights group expresses concern over Taliban's new media rules

As per the regulations, journalists are required to 'ensure that their reporting is balanced'

1 Oct 2021 12:54 PM IST

Taliban also announced that they will launch a program to send students abroad to pursue higher education. (Representational image: ANI)

Taliban announce operation to defeat IS terrorists: Reports

The IS claimed an attack on Kabul airport on August 26, which killed more than 100, including 13 US personnel

29 Sept 2021 6:25 PM IST

An Afghan man has his photograph taken for facial biometric information as he applies for his passport at the passport office in Kabul. -AFP

Taliban to change Afghan passports, national identity cards

Deputy Minister of information & Culture said that the documents possibly will have the name 'Islamic Emirate of...

26 Sept 2021 12:48 PM IST

Taliban members inspect near the site of a blast in Jalalabad. (Photo: AFP)

Taliban to female Kabul city workers: Stay home

Hamdullah Namony told reporters Sunday that only women who could not be replaced by men have been permitted to report to...

19 Sept 2021 2:25 PM IST

A young Afghan girls stands next to her mother participating with other Afghan women against Pakistan and the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

'Suffered most' from Afghan war, says Pakistan citing USD 150 bln...

Afghans and the previous Kabul government had blamed Pakistan for its proxy war in Afghanistan

19 Sept 2021 11:48 AM IST

Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

Three dead as series of explosions hit Afghanistan's Nangarhar...

Also on Saturday a sticky bomb exploded in the capital Kabul wounding two people, said police officials

18 Sept 2021 6:34 PM IST

External affairs minister S. Jaishankar reached Dushanbe on Thursday and was received by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. (Photo: Twitter/@DrSJaishankar)

Afghan crisis main focus at Dushanbe SCO meeting today

The SCO summit itself is being held in a hybrid format, which means that some leaders will also attend in person

17 Sept 2021 8:10 AM IST

A Taliban fighter lifts a makeshift weight left behind by former prisoners at an empty area of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

Once inmates, Taliban now in charge in a Kabul prison

The Taliban now run Pul-e-Charkhi Prison, a sprawling complex on Kabul's eastern outskirts

14 Sept 2021 11:43 AM IST

According to data by Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), more than 5,000 women were working in the military sector in Afghanistan. (ANI Photo)

Women in Afghanistan seek 'Right to return' to govt jobs

According to data by the Reform and Civil Service Commission, around 120,000 women were working in civil organizations...

13 Sept 2021 5:40 PM IST