'Challenges from Indian govt': Afghan embassy in Delhi shuts down

Afghanistan Embassy on Friday announced its permanent closure, citing 'persistent challenges from the Indian government', even as heads of its Mumbai and Hyderabad missions claimed to have assumed......

3 Taliban killed in Kabul bank raid

Afghan police have killed at least three gunmen who stormed a bank building in Kabulon Wednesdaymorning. A report by The Times said the police is conducting a search of the premises after......

US, Taliban hold talks over $ 3.5 bn frozen Afghan bank reserves

A US special envoy met senior Taliban representatives in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and discussed the issue of Afghan central bank reserves. IMAGE: A Taliban fighter stands guard as people wait to......

What is Indus Waters Treaty and why India has issued notice to Pak

India has issued a notice to Pakistan for modification of the Indus Waters Treaty of September 1960 following Islamabad's "intransigence" on its implementation, stressing that the neighbouring......

A Kabul-Bangkok highway, via India!

Asian Development Bank is working on a grand plan to link Kabul with Bangkok and Hanoi through India as a part of its goal to link Asia. ADB is keen on the ambitious project to link West Asia with......

'India confident of weathering credit crunch'

India is confident of weathering the current global financial crisis and is on track to become the world's third largest economy by 2035 as predicted by experts, India's High Commissioner to the UK......

Sub-prime shadow on Indian realty

The turmoil in the global financial markets has cast its shadow on India's largest real estate deal. Delhi-based developer BPTP Ltd, which was banking on overseas institutions to fund the......

The changing face of Kolkata's Kabuliwala

Driven out of business by microfinance companies, the Kabuliwalas of Kolkata, traditional moneylenders, have seen their numbers shrink. I felt like I was in hell. I could not speak properly and......

Sehwag batsman of the decade, says Pringle

Highly impressed with Virender Sehwag's pyrotechnics, former England cricketer Derek Pringle has rated the dashing Indian opener as the greatest batsman of the decade. "Dashing openers have always......