Fighting rages in Afghan south after Taliban's weekend blitzThe insurgents have for weeks been trying to take Kandahar and Lashkar Gah -- both with Pashtun majorities from where the Taliban draw thei...
Airstrikes pummel Taliban in south; insurgents gain in northA defense ministry statement said air strikes were carried out across the country, including in the southern Helmand province, where the pr...
Blast in Afghan capital as Taliban battle government forces in south, westThe blast near a National Directorate of Security compound came hours after a car bomb and clashes near Kabul's diplomatic district, in whi...
Taliban take much of provincial capital in south AfghanistanResidents of the city, speaking to The Associated Press over the telephone, said the fighting has them trapped, hunkered down inside their ...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani seeks defense of cities as Taliban advanceAshraf Ghani also urged lawmakers to back a national mobilization drive against the Taliban amid an intensifying war between the Taliban an...
Commandos deployed as Afghan forces battle Taliban for control of citiesFighting raged in Helmand's provincial capital Lashkar Gah, where the Taliban launched coordinated attacks on the city centre and its priso...
53 Taliban militants dead in Afghanistan in 24 hoursMeanwhile, 20 Taliban militants were killed and eight others wounded during a cleanup operation conducted by ANDSF on the outskirts of Lash...
United States warplanes help Afghan forces fend off Taliban offensive"The heavy US air strikes against the Taliban positions stopped them from advancing towards Lashkar Gah," said Atiqullah, a local governmen...
Thousands of Afghans flee homes as fighting erupts after United States pulloutAfghan forces pushed back insurgent attacks on multiple checkpoints in the past 24 hours in the province of Helmand, where the US military ...
Afghan defence minister Asadullah Khalid flies to embattled Helmand after Taliban gainsThe fighting in the province, where U.S. and British troops for years fought to clear Taliban from a string of poppy-growing districts, com...
US forces hit Taliban with airstrikes in Helmand province to support Afghan security forcesThe Taliban "need to immediately stop their offensive actions in Helmand Province and reduce their violence around the country," Leggett sa...
- PM greets Manmohan Singh on his birthday
"Greetings to our former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh ji on his birthday. I pray for Dr Singh's long life and good health," Modi tweete...
PM Narendra Modi wishes Manmohan Singh on birthdayModi said, "Warm birthday wishes to our former Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. May he lead a long life filled with good health."
PM Narendra Modi greets Manmohan Singh on birthdaySingh, who served as Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014, was born in Gah in Pakistan. Singh's family migrated to India during partition in 19...
RBI has allowed custodians or banks to short-sell in the government bond marketThe Reserve Bank of India has allowed custodians or banks to short-sell in the government bond market with primary members or individual ba...
PM Narendra Modi greets Manmohan Singh on his birthdayBorn on September 26, 1932 in Gah, which is now in the Pakistani side of Punjab, Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister of India from 2004 t...
- RBI implements web-based bidding for G-Sec primary auctions
The module on web-based negotiated dealing system auction will allow internet-based direct participation of gilt account holders.