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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicUS withdrawal

Topic: US withdrawal

US delegation holds talks with Taliban for first time since troops withdrawal

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said the 'candid and professional' discussions covered the need for safe passage of US citizens, other foreign nationals and Afghan partners.

Afghanistan shows US failed to address issues that went beyond military means

The historical experience of Americans had made them self-centred and often overbearing and thus unable to understand the cultural substance of other societies.

Afghanistan always an afterthought for US, says ex-FBI agent Ali Soufan

In an interview with Bloomberg's Bobby Ghosh, the FBI agent also stressed that nation-building is not the military's job, saying its work is to deal with symptoms, not the root causes.

Taliban cabinet looks like a most-wanted list. Bush to Biden, not much has changed

Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said they wanted to ensure Afghanistan is no more the field of conflict. What's happening in Kabul betrays this promise.

Embarrassment of Afghanistan likely to constrain western strategic thinking for decades now

If the US has withdrawn from Afghanistan to contain China then the credibility of the West as a security guarantor are not worth the paper they are written on.

Afghanistan is a hard country and India has focussed more on soft power

The West might have abandoned Afghanistan but cannot afford the optics of widespread destruction, a televised man-made calamity for which it is responsible.

Five myths about Afghanistan that India must overcome, along with its timidity

From ‘graveyard of empires’ to the stage for Great Games, there are many enduring fictions about Afghanistan.

India alone on Afghan chessboard as US, Russia pick Pakistan. Here’s what Delhi can do

The 1996 India-Iran-Russia effort to contain the Taliban cannot be replicated in 2021;like Washington, Moscow has its own interests and so does Tehran.

‘Keep a bit of Afghanistan in White House’—what India should tell US. For Quad’s sake

US’ Afghanistan exit will open doors for China entry. Delhi has limited options.

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India is exploring a new insurance plan. Payout is triggered when heat, rainfall rise

In Rajasthan and Gujarat, informal women workers received cash payouts when heat levels crossed 40°C. The pilot cut administrative delays and reached beneficiaries quickly.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

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

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

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

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.