ISLAMABAD, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi has said here that the international community should continue engaging with the Afghan Taliban.
Addressing a press briefing Friday during his visit to Pakistan, the UN official said the UNHCR is engaging with the interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan on humanitarian matters, urging the world to do the same.
(AP) --- Every night in yet another house in Afghanistan’s capital, a U.S. green card-holding couple from California take turns sleeping, with one always awake to watch over their three young children so they can flee if they hear the footsteps of the Taliban.
Lucknow, Sep 18 (PTI) The way to Delhi goes via Uttar Pradesh, said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav stressing that the upcoming state Assembly elections are crucial to restore democracy, secularism and brotherhood.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also said the challenge before the media is to maintain objectivity and transparency as strong journalism leads to strong democracy.
Dehradun, Sept 17 (PTI) The Chardham Yatra in Uttarakhand will begin on Saturday after its prolonged suspension due to COVID-19.
A day after the Uttarakhand High Court vacated its stay on Chardham Yatra, the state government on Friday issued a detailed SOP to start the yatra from Saturday with strict adherence to COVID-19 norms.
Imposing a daily limit on the number of pilgrims visiting the Himalayan temples, the SOP put a cap of 1,000 pilgrims daily on Badrinath, 800 on Kedarnath, 600 on Gangotri and 400 on Yamunotri.
Guwahati, Sep 18 (PTI) Two suspected militants of a newly formed outfit have been killed and their camp busted by security forces in Assam's Kokrajhar district, a top police officer said on Saturday.
Additional director general of Assam Police GP Singh said in a tweet that a camp of United Liberation of Bodoland (ULB) at Ultapani area of Kokrajhar was busted by security forces during an operation that had commenced on Friday night.
New Delhi, Sep 18 (PTI) BJP MP and former minister Babul Supriyo, who recently announced that he was quitting politics, joined the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata on Saturday.
"Today, in the presence of national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and RS MP Derek O'Brien, former Union Minister and sitting MP Babul Supriyo joined the Trinamool family," the party said in a tweet.
New Delhi, Sep 18 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has decided to put in his papers ahead of the crucial Congress Legislature Party meeting in Chandigarh on Saturday evening, sources close to him said.
The chief minister will meet the Punjab governor around 4.30 pm and resign from the post. Earlier in the day, Amarinder Singh spoke to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and expressed his anguish and displeasure over his repeated "humiliation", the sources said.
Kanpur: Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki on Friday was reported to have insulted and threatened two traffic police officials during a rally of party leader Abu Azmi here.
During the arguments with the traffic policemen, Solanki demanded action against the officers, saying they clicked pictures of the SP workers to penalise them for traffic violations.
The incident was clicked by the camera and displayed the SP MLA continuously threatening them.
Samajwadi Party workers had gathered here to give a grand welcome to Abu Azmi to the city.
New Delhi/Beijing, Sep 17 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi that the two sides should work for an early resolution of the remaining issues along the LAC in eastern Ladakh to restore peace and tranquillity in the border areas as this has been an essential basis for progress in Sino-India ties.
Kanpur: On the third Saturday of the month the banks remain opened but colleges did not open. Why so? Many who reached at the city's older and prominent college gate were dazed to find both of the iron doors of the degree college closed.
Those who stepped up to enquire of the reason were told it would be reasonable to come on Monday.
Gatekeeper looking too older and lanky did not provide an exact cause of the closure.
Girls who were seeking admission turned up at the college were surprised and over-heard reacting to one another move to come on Monday.
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