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At least ous a threat they posed given tions, and the fighters again one person was killed. that Taliban fighters overran responded violently as they Meanwhile, opposition fig- nearly the entire country in a faced down growing challenges ures gathering in the last area matter of days with little resis- to their rule. of the country not under tance from Afghan forces. A UN official warned of Taliban rule talked of launch- Continued on Page 11 , % ! - # . " " / 0 % dire food shortages and experts " & 1 & 20 3# " ■ 1 said the country was severely in need of cash while noting the P Taliban are unlikely to enjoy the generous international aid 01 that the civilian Government they dethroned did. In light of these challenges, the Taliban have moved quick- authorities clamped a 24-hour according to witnesses and $ #* +# 2 ly to suppress any dissent, curfew on Thursday after vio- social media videos that lined despite their promises that lently breaking up another up with reporting by The 46 -"6$ 56# “We have a historical rela- they have become more mod- protest, according to informa- Associated Press. tionship with the Afghan peo- +4 3657 government would also bear orarium to Anganwadi work- erate since they last ruled tion obtained by journalists The demonstrations — xternal Affairs Minister S ple and I think that relationship the expenditure for providing ers/Anganwadi helpers Afghanistan with draconian monitoring from abroad. The which come as Afghans cele- EJaishankar on Thursday will continue to guide our head of the crucial 2022 digital access to the youth who (AWWs/AWHs)," Yogi laws. Many fear they will suc- authorities did not immediately brated Independence Day and said that India has a historical thoughts and outlook,” he said. AUttar Pradesh Assembly were beneficiaries of the Adityanath said. ceed in erasing two decades of acknowledge the demonstra- some commemorated the Shia relationship with the Afghan On another question, he elections, Chief Minister Yogi scheme. He said the govern- The current DA hike order efforts to expand women’s and tion or the curfew. Ashoura festival — were a people and that will continue to said, “We’re working with inter- Adityanath announced a series ment had also roped in corpo- is going to benefit state gov- human rights and remake the Protesters also took the remarkable show of defiance guide its thoughts and outlook national partners in this regard, of sops in the Vidhan Sabha on rate houses who would con- ernment employees, pension- country. streets in Kunar province, after the Taliban fighters vio- as he spoke on the volatile sit- especially the US, as it controls Thursday. tribute from their corporate ers, staff of aided educational On Thursday, a proces- uation in the war-torn country the airport”. He emphasised He announced a hike in social responsibility (CSR) fund institutes and technical educa- sion of cars and people near at the UN Security Council. that repatriation of Indian dearness allowance for 16 lakh to this Nidhi and also the uni- tion institutes, and employees Kabul’s airport carried long Jaishankar, addressing nationals from Afghanistan state employees’ and 12 lakh versities and other institutions. of urban local bodies. black, red and green banners in reporters at the UN Security remained its top priority. pensioners from 17 per cent to Targeting the opposition, “The Anganwadi workers honor of the Afghan flag — a Council stakeout after chairing India on Tuesday rushed 28 per cent, hike in honorari- the chief minister said, “during and ASHA Bahus are the banner that is becoming a a high-level United Nations back home its ambassador um for Anganwadi workers, the Samajwadi Party rule the Corona Warriors who played a symbol of defiance. At anoth- Security Council briefing on Rudrendra Tandon and staff Pradesh Raksha Dal jawans, youth from UP were forced to stellar role as members of the er protest in Nangarhar $% " ‘Threats to international peace from the embassy in Kabul in rojgar sevaks and hike in hide their native state and they vigilance committee in identi- province, video posted online and security caused by terror- a military transport aircraft fol- Suraksha Nidhi for the lawyers were slapped with fake crimi- fying the COVID-19 patients showed a bleeding demonstra- ist acts’ held under India’s cur- lowing escalating tension, fear from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. nal cases but now the state is and distributing medicines and tor with a gunshot wound. rent presidency of the UNSC, and uncertainty gripping the Yogi Adityanath also riot-free and youth are pro- relief material to the people in Onlookers tried to carry him % said that the focus is on the safe Afghan capital after the Taliban away. return of Indian nationals who insurgents seized the Afghan In Khost province, Taliban are there in the country. capital on Sunday. # $ %& ' O tored by a retired Supreme !" Court Judge, the court direct- ed. Both the agencies were asked to submit their reports ! " ! " "# $ within six weeks. # In the damaging verdict $ !4+$6:&$3 #$6; Shafqat said the explosion delivered by a five-judge bench went off while the procession 35+3$$ presided over by acting Chief % powerful roadside bomb was passing through a con- Justice Rajesh Bindal and com- & ! Aexploded among a pro- gested neighborhood known as n a major embarrassment for prising justices Indra Prasanna '())* cession of Shia Muslims in Muhajir Colony. He con- Ithe Mamata Banerjee Mukerji, Harish Tandon, $# ! central Pakistan on Thursday, demned the attack and urged Government, the Calcutta Soumen Sen and Subrata # killing at least three and the Government to further High Court on Thursday Talukdar, the court also direct- % ! - # 2 ! + , wounding over 50 people, local step up security at such pro- ordered Central Bureau of ed the State to immediately - $ police said. cessions, which are ongoing in Investigation (CBI) and SIT compensate the people affect- announced the setting up of a gressing.” rural areas,” the chief minister Videos circulating on social other parts of the country as probes into the post-poll vio- ed in the violence. special Nidhi (fund) of Rs The state government had said. media showed police and well. lence in Bengal — a charge the An intervention petition 3,000 crore for assisting the withheld DA revision in 2020 The DA hike by the UP & ambulances rushing toward Communications in the State Government and the rul- filed on behalf of Bengal youth participating in com- due to financial constraints government comes more than ! O the site of the explosion. Several area were difficult, as authori- ing Trinamool Congress have Minister Jyoti Priya Mullick petitive examinations, distrib- arising out of COVID-19 curbs. a month after the Central gov- wounded people were seen ties had suspended mobile vehemently denied. was summarily rejected by the ution of one crore smartphones The Yogi government had said ernment increased the dearness # waiting for help along a road in phone service across the coun- While the CBI would court. Mullick was named and tablets to diploma and there would not be any DA allowance (DA) by 11 per cent $% the deeply conservative city of try a day ago ahead of the Shiite investigate the graver offences among 50 “notorious crimi- other degree holders. hike from April 2020 to July 1, from 17 per cent to 28 per cent " . Bahawalnagar in the eastern Ashoura festival. The annual like murder, rape and other nals” by a seven-member team The chief minister said the 2021. for its employees. The hike was *'( Punjab province, where the commemoration mourns the human and women’s rights of the National Human Rights youth would be provided The new DA rates will announced more than a year $ ' attack took place. 7th century death of Prophet violations, the Special Commission that was earlier financial assistance from the now be applicable from July 1, after the government decided City police officer Muhammad’s grandson Investigating Team headed by directed by the court to enquire Nidhi for participating in three 2021. to put revisions in DA on hold. Mohammad Asad and Shiite Hussein, one of Shiite Islam’s Kolkata Police Commissioner into the reports of post-poll competitive examinations. A "The state government has The three installments of DA 001 leader Khawar Shafqat con- most beloved saints. Somen Mitra — and compris- violence. provision of Rs 3,000 crore has increased the dearness for the Central government firmed the bombing. Witnesses For Shia, the remembrance ing other IPS officers Suman Incidentally the Trinamool been made for this in the sup- allowance of government employees and DR for pen- said tensions are now high in of Hussein is an emotional Bala Sahoo, and Ranbir Kumar Congress, the Left and the plementary grants for the cur- employees to 28 per cent (as sioners due on January 1, 2020, the city, with Shia protesting event that sees many believers — would look into the other Congress had alleged that the rent fiscal 2021-22 passed by per the Centre's mandate) with July 1, 2020, and January 1, the attack and demanding ret- weep over his death at the offences, the court said.

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