NEW DELHI: The Taliban claim to have captured their first provincial capital in Afghanistan after U.S. President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of foreign troops on April 14. The reported fall of Zaranj, capital of the southern Nimroz province, is symbolic and significant. It’s the main land route connecting Iran’s Chabahar port with Afghanistan and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Consultations are on at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for an emergency session on Afghanistan. India assumed the rotational UNSC presidency for a month on August 1. On Tuesday, Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar spoke to India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the issue saying, the “UN and the international community […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Add another name to the list of Indian Americans on Team Biden: Puneet Talwar. He was a top adviser for 12 years when Biden was a senator, was part of the group that put together the nuclear deal with Iran and advised former president Obama on West Asia. He now joins Zalmay Khalilzad […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is conscious, out of danger and off ventilator after multiple 16-hour long ‘life-saving’ surgeries resulting from what authorities say was a targeted terror attack on the night of May 6. 2021 މެއި 06 ވަނަ ދުވަހުގެ ރޭ މާލެ، ނީލޯފަރު ހިނގުމުގައި އެއްޗެއް ގޮއްވާލައި ރައްޔިތުންގެ މަޖިލީހުގެ ރައީސް، ރައީސް މުޙައްމަދު ނަޝީދަށް އަމާޒުކޮށް […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Former Maldives President and current Speaker of the People’s Majlis (parliament), Mohamed Nasheed was reported stable following multiple surgeries for injuries he sustained after an explosion near his home in the capital Malé. The explosion was heard around the capital at around 8:39 PM local time (20 minutes before a renewed COVID curfew […]Read More