In his first-ever public appearance, Taliban supreme leader Maulvi Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, Pajhwok News reported.Akhundzada, who was appointed as the movement's spiritual leader five years ago, addressed...

Ending a long vigil, Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan, finally walked out of the Arthur Road Central Jail (ARCJ) here on Saturday.With thousands of fans, admirers, a huge posse of police and mediapersons camping here for the second day,...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a meeting Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's Acting Deputy Prime Minister, in the Qatari capital of Doha, marking the first face-to-face talks between the two sides since the takeover of Afghanistan by the group.During...

More than half of the population of Afghanistan, or a record 22.8 million people, will face acute food insecurity from November, according to the latest report issued on Monday by the Food Security and Agriculture Cluster of Afghanistan, co-led by the Food...

Fifty members of the Islamic State (IS) terror group surrendered to Taliban authorities in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, an official confirmed."Following efforts by local elders and authorities of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, a total of 50 members of...

Taliban officials in several provinces across Afghanistan have forcibly displaced residents partly to distribute land to their own supporters, Human Rights Watch said.Many of these evictions have targeted Hazara Shia communities, as well as people associated...

The Taliban-led interim government in Afghanistan has assured Pakistan that it will not support or allow its soil to be used by terror outfits, including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), against Islamabad, expressing...

In a huge jolt, a Mumbai Special NDPS Court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of Aryan Khan the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and two others, in the rave party raid case aboard a cruise ship on October 2.The court also declined the bail applications...

Russia has invited a US delegation to participate in the talks on Afghanistan slated to take place in Moscow on october 20, a top official said here.Moscow is also currently considering a proposal by Iran on hosting in Tehran a meeting of foreign ministers...

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has welcomed Turkey's proposal for Foreign Ministers of Islamic nations to visit Kabul "as a way to discuss the situation in the country", the media reported.Calling the proposal "important", Zabihullah Mujahid, the...

Senior Taliban officials and US representatives have discussed "opening a new page" in their countries relationship, as they kicked off talks in Qatar, according to Afghanistans acting Foreign Minister, Al Jazeera reported.The in-person meetings that began...

Punjab PWD and Administrative Reforms Minister Mr. Vijay Inder Singla was in UP to visit the families of the victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri tragedy. Mr. Singla reached Lakhimpur Kheri in the morning with PPCC president Navjot Singh Sidhu and several colleagues...

After being served second notice, Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni and accused of running over farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, appeared before the Police on Saturday to record his statement.A lot of his supporters have also reached the Crime...

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Interior Minister of Afghanistan and chief of the dreaded terror outfit Haqqani Network is still living in shadow. But according to reports, he has been meeting frequently with Chen Wenqing, the Intelligence Chief of China. According to...

Punjab Public Works and Administrative Reforms Minister Mr. Vijay Inder Singla along with other cabinet colleagues today visited the home of martyred farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri to share their grief and assured that the whole country stand by them. While assuring...

Farmers in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district on Thursday conducted a protest march at the four crossroad junction in Budalur town against the mowing down of protesting farmers at Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district.On Wednesday evening also, the farmers of...

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu along with Cabinet ministers and leaders were detained on Thursday on the Haryana-Uttar Pradesh border in Saharanpur as they were heading towards Lakhimpur Kheri where nine people were killed in violence that erupted...

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to inform it on Friday as to who are the accused named in the FIR filed in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case and whether they have been arrested or not."We want to know who are the accused,...

The Uttar Pradesh government has deputed Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, a retired judge of the Allahabad High Court, to probe the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which nine persons lost their lives.The judicial commission will have its office in Lakhimpur...

Union minister Ajay Mishra Teni's claim that his vehicle was attacked by miscreants before the driver lost control and mowed down farmers, stands "exposed" after a cleaner, longer clip of the viral video from Lakhimpur Kheri reveals what happened on Sunday...