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Kabul, Aug 26: An explosion outside Kabul airport on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including children, a Taliban official told international media. He also said the blast wounded many Taliban guards. A US official said US service members were among the wounded, adding he was citing an initial report and cautioning that it could change. He said there were casualties but did not know how many

Bengaluru, Aug 26: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on Thursday said the government has taken the gang-rape incident in Mysuru "seriously" and that the perpetrators will be caught soon and brought to justice. "It''s an unfortunate incident. My government has taken it seriously. The perpetrators will be caught soon and brought to justice," Bommai, is on a two-day visit to the national

Kasaragod, Aug 26: The Kerala Region of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has downplayed incidents of three deaths of women reportedly after getting covid jabs, saying that these are all very rare cases, considering the sheer number of vaccines administered. The deaths have been reported from Kottayam and Kasaragod districts over the last 12 days. A 31-year-old who had her pregnancy confirmed

Syed Ahmad Shah Sadat, who had served as the communications and technology minister in Afghanistan, is now working as a pizza delivery guy in Germany! The photos of the former minister were posted by Al-Jazeera Arabia on Twitter. Sadat lives in Leipzig, where he reached in December last year after leaving Afghanistan. Sadat joined Ashraf Ghani's cabinet in 2018, but resigned from his post in 2020

Mysuru, Aug 22: In a shocking incident, a 22-year-old MBA student was allegedly gang-raped by five youths at a secluded place on a hillock in east Mysuru late on Tuesday. The survivor is hospitalised and her condition is stable. The incident happened on a hillock near Lalithadripura (North) layout, at the foot of Chamundi Hills. It is located around 300 metres away from eastern stretch of the

Mysuru, Aug 25: Sunanda Palanetra of BJP has been elected as Mayor of Mysuru. She is the 24th Mayor of Mysuru. BJP came to power for the first time in the history of MCC. Palanetra, a corporator of Ward 59 of MCC, is a close relative of former chief minister B S Yediyurappa. It is to be noted that Palanetra had decided to resign from her corporatorship when she was defeated in previous Mayor

Chennai, Aug 25: BJP state general secretary KT Raghavan on Tuesday resigned from his post following the release of a video levelling sexual harassment charges against him. The video was released by YouTuber Madan Ravichandran who joined the BJP last October. In the video, Ravichandran alleged that he had released the video with the consent of BJP state president K Annamalai and that he has video

Mumbai, Aug 25: The Shiv Sena on Wednesday claimed Union minister Narayan Rane has made the central government hang its head in shame, a day after the BJP leader was arrested over his controversial remarks against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah must take Rane's remarks against CM Thackeray seriously, an editorial in the

Allahabad, Aug 24: In a controversial verdict, the Allahabad High Court has ruled that keeping a beard by a member of a 'disciplined force', is not a constitutional right and is therefore not protected by Article 25 (freedom to profess, practice and propagate religion). A single bench headed by Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court delivered the judgement

Riyadh, Aug 24: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued directives to allow direct entry of fully vaccinated expatriates from countries facing travel ban, diplomatic sources said. The diplomatic missions of the concerned countries have received the directive in this regard. This will be applicable only to those foreigners who have left the Kingdom on exit and reentry visa after