KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban met with a U.S. envoy in the Pakistani capital, a Taliban official said Saturday, the first such encounter since President Donald Trump announced a month ago that a seemingly imminent peace deal to end Afghanistan’s 18-year war was dead.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — The workers were sleeping on the mountainside where they had spent a long day harvesting pine nuts in eastern Afghanistan. Some were in tents, others lay outside under the stars, when the U.S. airstrike tore into them.
Only hours before the Sept. 19 strike, the businessman who hired them had heard there was a drone over the mountain and called Afghanistan’s intelligence agency to remind an official his workers were there — as he’d notified the agency days earlier.
Kanpur: Much awaited work on the metro is now starting from October 7 (Monday). The drilling machines have already been placed near the national institute of sugar technology in Kalyanpur here.
As many as three drilling machines were positioned at the spot by the Company entrusted to initiate the metro track work. The soil testing has already been completed. The drilling on the ground will start to raise the pillar.
A 16-year-old Dalit girl was sexually assaulted in Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) office bearer and three of his family members.
Acoording to reports; RSS Prant Sah Boudhik Pramukh Satish Yadav, his brothers Jaidev Yadav and Sahdev Yadav, and his son Ganesh Yadav molested the dalit girl.
5 Oct 2019; MEMO: A hacking group that appears to be linked to the Iranian government has carried out a campaign against a US presidential campaign, Reuters reported Microsoft Corp saying on Friday.
Microsoft saw “significant” cyber activity by the group that also targeted current and former US government officials, journalists covering global politics and prominent Iranians living outside Iran, the company said in a blog post.
New Delhi, Oct 4 - India on Friday criticised Turkey and Malaysia for their statements attacking New Delhi on the Kashmir issue.
External Affairs Minister Raveesh Kumar said India's recent decision related to Jammu and Kashmir is an internal matter of the country.
Raising the Kashmir issue at the UN, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad alleged that India has "invaded and occupied" Jammu and Kashmir and asked New Delhi to work with Pakistan to resolve the issue.
Turkey too criticised India over the situation in Kashmir.
Mangaluru, Oct 5 (PTI) Former Karnataka Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was running a 'fascist' government at the Centre.
"Modis administration is similar to that of Adolf Hitler. Nobody dares to speak against him," he said, talking to reporters at the international airport here.
Siddaramaiah was here on his way to Kalasa in Chikkamagaluru where he would meet the family of a farmer who committed suicide recently.
New Delhi, Oct 4 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday asked the parties involved in a plea seeking permission to rebuild the Guru Ravidas temple in Delhi's Tughlaqabad forest area to come back to it with an amicable solution on a better location for the temple.
It posted the matter for further hearing on October 18.
The temple was demolished by the Delhi Development Authority following the court's direction.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A grenade attack on Saturday in Kashmir’s southern city of Anantnag injured 10 people, including a traffic policeman and a journalist, police said on Twitter, blaming “terrorists”.
Many people in Kashmir have been seething since India stripped its portion of the Muslim-majority region of autonomy on Aug. 5, shutting off phone networks and imposing curfew-like restrictions in some areas to dampen discontent.
Some of those curbs have been slowly relaxed, but mobile and internet communications in the Kashmir valley are largely still blocked.
Islamabad, Oct 5 (PTI) Pakistan has said Maleeha Lodhi was not sacked and was replaced with Munir Akram after the completion of her tenure as the country's permanent representative to the UN, according to a media report.
Prime Minister Imran Khan in a surprise move this week appointed Akram, known for his strident anti-India stand, as Pakistan's new permanent representative to the United Nations.
The development came a day after Khan returned from New York, where he raised the Kashmir issue in his maiden address to the UN General Assembly.
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