Taliban: What are India's Options?

'It is a testing time for our foreign policy which may involve a certain element of taking risks, assessing costs, and expecting failures,' asserts Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd). IMAGE: A......

'Hats off to the government for how they evacuated us from Kabul'

'When I stepped on Indian soil, I lay down on the ground and kissed my homeland.' Shirin Pathare, assistant general manager, security, with Air India, was posted as the station head, security, in......

'Pakistan will be China's eyes, ears in Afghanistan'

'India would not like to see Pakistani domination and tutelage of Afghanistan against Indian security and economic interests.' IMAGE: An Afghan National Army soldier stands guard near a checkpoint......

Set on fire after failed gang-rape attempt: Shahjahanpur student

A college student who was found lying without clothes and severely burnt along a national highway in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur district has claimed she was set on fire after a failed attempt to......

Afghan cricketer dies after being hit in road accident

IMAGE: Najeeb Tarakai. Photograph: Afghanistan Cricket Board/Twitter Afghanistan cricketer Najeeb Tarakai died in a road accident after being hit by a car in Jalalabad on Thursday. The cricketer......

Afghanistan players nurture World Cup hopes

A place in the 2011 World Cup would be one way of giving the people of war-torn Afghanistan some joy and solace, says the country's cricket captain Nowroz Mangal. "Playing in the 2011 World Cup is......