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Topic: Taliban

‘What about my future?’ — Afghan students on Indian grant caught between Taliban & visa rules

Nayanima Basu -
For the 2021-22 academic session, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) has granted scholarships to 650 Afghan students. 

AUKUS and Afghanistan – Now is the time for Modi govt to deploy every diplomatic instinct

Rudra Chaudhuri -
India’s diplomatic advance in the US could be pivotal with long-lasting effects in both South Asia as well as the future of the Indo-Pacific.

China leveraging Afghanistan to puncture Central Asian mountains, link with Iran, says ex-envoy

Pia Krishnankutty -
In webinar on ‘China's Position on Afghanistan’, hosted by the Institute of China Studies. experts speculate on China's reasons for embracing the Taliban & any reservations it may harbour.

Taliban’s pick for Kabul University chancellor had called for killing ‘spy journalists’

Tenzin Zompa -
Appointment of Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat as Kabul University chancellor sparks furore on social media, with questions being raised about his qualifications.

Who are Pashtuns? Afghan majority with countless tribes that Imran Khan got wrong

Pia Krishnankutty -
Pakistan PM Imran Khan was schooled on social media last week after he erroneously referred to terrorist group Haqqani network as a Pashtun tribe.

Taliban seek UNGA participation, write to UN chief nominating their spokesman as Afghan envoy

Yoshita Singh -
The nomination sets up a confrontation between the Taliban and Afghanistan's fallen government envoy, Gram Isakuzai, who has held his post so far.

SAARC foreign ministers’ meet cancelled after Pakistan insists on Taliban’s participation

ANI -
The new regime in Kabul is still not recognised by the world and its top cabinet ministers are blacklisted by the UN.

Taliban bans IPL broadcast in Afghanistan over presence of ‘female spectators’

PTI -
Ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the international sporting community has been concerned about the fundamentalist group’s position on women participating in sports.

Taliban adds more male ministers to cabinet, says will include women, minorities over time

Eltaf Najafizada -
Stating that the current cabinet is temporary, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said the group is working to add women in govt positions & experts in cabinet but didn't specify a time-frame.

Support for Taliban in Pakistan goes beyond military and maulvis now

Tara Kartha -
In Pakistan, it's now ‘proper’ to glorify extremism in government circles, and is no more the prerogative of extremist groups.
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Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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