
The Taliban militants the US has spent two decades battling are now pushing towards the provincial cities in Afghanistan, bringing their battle with the Afghan security forces ever closer to the regional capitals, CBS News reported....

Women have taken up guns in northern and central Afghanistan, marching in the streets in their hundreds and sharing pictures of themselves with assault rifles on social media in a show of defiance as Taliban militants make sweeping gains nationwide, The Guardian reported. ...

A massive blaze tore through a food processing factory in an industrial town near Dhaka, killing at least 52 as workers trapped by flames in the multi-storey building were forced to leap for their lives from the fourth floor....

Two-time Kerala Finance Minister and senior CPI-M leader Thomas Issac has expressed concern over Union Home Minister Amit Shah getting the new Cooperation portfolio in the Narendra Modi-led Central government....

The Delhi High Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by Lok Janshakti Party MP Chirag Paswan, challenging the Lok Sabha Speaker's decision recognising his uncle Pashupati Paras as the party floor leader, saying that "the right to decide the internal disputes of the House rests with the Speaker"....

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by an advocate seeking directions to fix time limits for expiry of caste-based reservations in education....

India and Russia said on Friday that it is important for the two countries to work together for Afghanistan's peace, and stability and security in the region....

Veteran politician Mukul Roy, who recently joined the Trinamool Congress after winning the Assembly polls from Krishnanagar North on a BJP ticket, was made the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman on the last day of the Budget Session in the West Bengal Assembly on Friday....

Thaawarchand Gehlot will be sworn-in as Governor of Karnataka at the Glass House of Raj Bhavan on Sunday at 10.30 a.m., a Raj Bhavan communique said here on Friday....

The Women and Child Development Department of the Delhi government will undertake a survey to identify children who have been orphaned during the Covid-19 pandemic, an official said on Friday....