'This is a challenge, but together we can and must rise to it because there is simply no alternative to working cohesively together.'

Lining up with US over the years culminated in India signing up onto Quadrilateral Alliance. This has effectively blocked India’s strategic autonomy and undermined an independent foreign policy.

Taliban are reportedly mulling going in for the Iran model to rule Afghanistan, in which religious clergy monitor a government headed by a political entity.

A Delhi court on Wednesday discharged senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death in a luxury hotel in New Delhi.

While the MoS for foreign affairs has assured safe evacuation of three professors from Kulgam stuck at Bakhtar University in Kabul, the MEA has said it'll send flights once Kabul airport reopens.

Among other directions, the Madras High Court directed the Central government to enact a separate law at the earliest to give statutory status to CBI.

Sitharaman claimed that Modi govt is paying for reduction in prices of petroleum products during time of UPA government, due to interest and principal having to be repaid on oil bonds from that period.

Zabihullah Mujahid, a shadowy figure issuing statements on behalf of the militants for years, said at a news conference that the Taliban sought no revenge and ‘everyone is forgiven’.

Amrullah Saleh made the comment on Twitter on Tuesday. He cited the Afghan constitution was empowering him to declare this.

Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban leader freed from a Pakistani jail on the request of the US less than three years ago, has emerged as an "undisputed victor" of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.