
The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan reached a significant milestone on Friday, with officials confirming that all American forces had left the sprawling Bagram Air Base, CBS News reported....
Religious leaders who hold a major sway in Pakistan society and have often been found to paralyse the country demanding public hanging or punishment for culprits who insult Islam, have this time around found themselves in a sticky situation as a child sex abuse incident inside a madarsa rocks the nation. ...

Taking a jibe at Nitish Kumar, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said the JD-U leader "passed examination with a third division" and went on to become the chief minister of Bihar. The remark was a reference to the seats won by the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in the 2020 Bihar Assembly election. ...

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday once again targeted the government over its vaccination policy, saying "mind the gap"....

A day after Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat resigned, the Congress on Saturday hit out at the BJP over the political instability in the state, accusing it of power hungry....

Taliban have reportedly issue news rules and regulations in recently captured districts of Afghan Takhar province, including forbiding women from leaving home without a male relative and forcing men to grow beards....

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday met BJP chief J.P. Nadda for the second time in three days to discuss the political situation and the requirement of his election to the state Assembly before September 10. ...

When it comes to discipline, it's difficult to beat the CPI-M as it has wielded the sword of discipline on new legislator K.P. Kunjahammed Kutty, a senior party leader, who won from the Kuttiyadi constituency in Kozhikode district. ...

Two more terrorists have been killed in an ongoing encounter between militants and security forces at the Hanjin Rajpora area in South Kashmir's Pulwama district on Friday, taking the toll of terrorists killed to five, officials said. ...

The war of words over fudging of Covid deaths figures in Kerala intensified on Friday with the Congress blasting the ruling Left Pinarayi Vijayan government of having done so, to project the state as one which has fought the pandemic well. The war of words intensified early this week after the Supreme Court intervened ...