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Taliban fighters are seen in a vehicle along the roadside in Herat, Afghanistans third biggest city, after government forces pulled out the day before following weeks of being under siege (AFP)

Taliban close in on Kabul as US scrambles to evacuate

With the country-'s second- and third-largest cities having fallen into Taliban hands, Kabul has effectively become the...

14 Aug 2021 11:13 AM IST

Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021. The Taliban captured the provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, the 10th the insurgents have taken over a weeklong blitz across Afghanistan as the U.S. and NATO prepare to withdraw entirely from the country after decades of war. (AP/Gulabuddin Amiri)

US, UK to launch evacuation flights as Taliban advance across...

Washington and London announced plans late on Thursday to quickly pull out their embassy staff and other citizens from...

13 Aug 2021 11:26 AM IST

A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a nucleic acid sample collection station at a park in Beijing on August 5, 2021. (Noel Celis / AFP)

China virus cases rise as Delta variant challenges Beijing

Tuesday-'s numbers are the highest since January, when the country logged 144 new cases and 126 domestic infections

10 Aug 2021 1:28 PM IST

A resident receives a nucleic acid test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Nanjing in Chinas eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo: AFP)

Millions under virus lockdown as China battles Delta outbreak

China on Monday reported 55 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases

2 Aug 2021 12:45 PM IST

A woman receives the AstraZeneca Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at Trung Vuong Secondary School in Hanoi. (Photo: AFP)

Chinese mission opposes EU push for COVID-19 origins study

Chinese spokesperson said politicising the study of the origin has created difficulties for countries to fight the...

30 July 2021 10:38 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. (PTI Photo)

Pak PM-'s party wins most seats in PoK legislative elections marred by...

PTI has won 23 seats while Pakistan Peoples Party PPP was second with eight seats

26 July 2021 12:06 PM IST

This photo taken on July 15, 2021 shows rescuers working to clear a flooded tunnel after 14 construction workers were trapped in an underground section of a new highway construction site after it collapsed in Zhuhai in Chinas southern Guangdong province. (Photo: AFP)

Six detained over fatal tunnel flooding in south China

The construction site of the Shijingshan tunnel, part of Zhuhai-'s Xingye expressway, flooded on July 15

25 July 2021 3:34 PM IST

The global body against money laundering and terror financing also asked Pakistan to work to address its strategically important deficiencies. (Photo: AFP/File)

US asks Pakistan to keep working with FATF to complete its 27-point...

The Financial Action Task Force retained Pakistan on its -'grey list-' for failing to check money laundering, leading to...

20 July 2021 12:44 PM IST

Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba appointed as Prime Minister. (AFP Photo)

Nepal-'s Supreme court orders appointment of Sher Bahadur Deuba as...

The court also ordered summoning a new session of the House of Representatives at 5 PM on July 18

12 July 2021 5:30 PM IST

A Sri Lankan policeman looks at a dead turtle that washed ashore in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 10, 2021. Carcasses of nearly a hundred turtles believed to have been killed due to heat and chemical poisoning from a fire-ravaged ship that sank off while transporting chemicals have been washed to Sri Lanka¢â‚¬â„¢s ashore in recent weeks, raising fears of a severe marine disaster. (AP)

Nearly a hundred turtle carcasses wash ashore in Sri Lanka after ship...

Ecologists believe the deaths were directly caused by the fire and release of hazardous chemicals from ship fire

22 Jun 2021 1:47 PM IST

Sri Lankan health officials collect swab samples from people to test for the coronavirus in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 10, 2021. (AP/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka detects first community case of Delta variant of coronavirus

Sri Lanka's COVID-19 vaccination began in late January with India's gift of 500,000 Covishield AstraZeneca vaccines

18 Jun 2021 1:31 PM IST

Shenzhou 12 space mission: China will send three astronauts -- Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo -- as its first crew to a new space station today. (AP Photo)

China successfully launches first crewed mission for space station...

The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gobi Desert

17 Jun 2021 9:35 AM IST