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Some more flights are uation exercise following the even after over two months of planned in the days to come to Taliban takeover of the coun- launch. safely bring back stranded try, Union Housing and Urban However, after about two Indian citizens from Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh days of the portal being Afghanistan. Puri on Sunday cited the evac- unavailable, Infosys late on A team of Indian officials uations from Afghanistan to Sunday said emergency main- is now based in Kabul to assist back the controversial tenance on the website has con- 21/08/2021 the portal itself is those Indians who want to Citizenship Amendment Act cluded and it is now live. not available,” the Income Tax return home. However, the (CAA). The law allows citi- Infosys India Business, which department tweeted. operations will depend on zenship to persecuted non- is the Twitter handle of Infosys As users complained of those willing to return being Muslims who reached India India Business unit, in a tweet various glitches after a fortnight able to reach the airport. The before 2015. on Sunday evening said: “The of launch, Sitharaman on June Taliban has set up checkpoints “Recent developments in emergency maintenance of the 22, called a meeting with key at various places in the Afghan our volatile neighbourhood @IncomeTaxIndia portal has officials of Infosys to review the capital and roads leading to it and the way Sikhs & Hindus concluded and the portal is live. issues on the portal. The from other provinces, sources are going through a harrowing takeover of Afghanistan has We regret any inconvenience Minister had then asked said here on Sunday. ! time are precisely why it was triggered an exodus, especial- caused to taxpayers.” Infosys to address all issues Giving details of the oper- necessary to enact the ly of foreigners, religious and The new income tax e-fil- without further loss of time, ation to fly back the lucky ones Separately, 135 Indians, Everything has been snatched people would somewhat bring Citizenship Amendment Act,” sectarian minorities. ing portal Incometax.Gov.In, improve their services, and to New Delhi and Hindon near who were earlier evacuated away. It’s all over,” a visibly an end to these miseries,” he the Minister tweeted, quoting Over the past week, hun- developed by Infosys, had a redress grievances on priority the national Capital on Sunday, from Kabul to Doha in the last despondent Khalsa said when tweeted. a media report on the evacua- dreds of Afghan Sikhs and bumpy start from the day of its as it was impacting taxpayers officials said the rescued peo- few days by the US and NATO asked about the situation in India carried out the evac- tion of 168 people - which Hindus have been lining up at launch on June 7, as it contin- adversely. ple included two Afghan aircraft were flown back from Afghanistan. uation missions in coordina- included 23 Afghan Sikhs and the Kabul international air- ued to face tech glitches with Infosys CEO Salil Parekh, Members of Parliament. With the Qatari capital city to Delhi Thanking India for under- tion with the US and several Hindus - from Kabul by the port, looking for a way out of users complaining that cer- and COO Pravin Rao, along the latest evacuation, the num- on a special flight, they said. taking these missions, other friendly countries. A Indian Air Force. The Taliban Afghanistan. tain functionalities were either with other company officials, ber of people flown in by India The group of 168 people, Afghanistan Ambassador to group of Indian officials is unavailable or working slow. took note of the issues high- from Kabul since last Monday who were evacuated from India Farid Mamundzay said, coordinating the evacuation American officials handling It is learnt that the Indians Consequently, the I-T lighted by the stakeholders. reached 590. Kabul, included Afghan law- “I appreciate the kind words of mission at the Kabul airport security at the airport as well as evacuated to Doha from Kabul department had to allow man- They also acknowledged A total of 168 people, makers Anarkali Honaryar and sympathy and support mes- and another batch of Indians is other relevant authorities, they were employees of a number of ual filing of remittance forms the technical issues in the func- including 107 Indians and 23 Narender Singh Khalsa and sages from all Indian friends expected to be brought back said. The US armed forces are foreign companies that were and also extend due dates for tioning of the portal and shared Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, were their families, sources said. and the diplomatic missions in from the Afghan capital on controlling the Kabul interna- operating in Afghanistan. electronic filing of forms relat- the status of the resolution flown from Kabul to Hindon “India is our second home. New Delhi over the suffering of Monday. Sources said Afghan tional airport. “Bringing Indians home ed to intimation by pension with respect to the issues high- airbase near Delhi in a C-17 Even if we are Afghans and live Afghans in the past few weeks, nationals with Indian visas are “Evacuation continues! IAF from Afghanistan! AI 1956 funds and sovereign wealth lighted by the stakeholders, an Globemaster transport aircraft in that country, people often particularly the last seven-eight facing increasing scrutiny from special repatriation flight with carrying 87 Indians departs funds. official statement issued after of the IAF on Sunday. call us Hindustanis. I thank days. the Taliban. The small group of 168 passengers on board, from Tajikistan for New Delhi. “Ministry of Finance has the meeting had said. Another group of 87 India for extending its helping “The avoidable suffering of Indian officials in Kabul is including 107 Indian nationals Two Nepalese nationals also summoned Salil Parekh, MD In 2019, Infosys was Indians and two Nepalese hand,” Khalsa told reporters at Afghanistan is man-made and coordinating the country’s is on its way to Delhi from evacuated. “Assisted and sup- &CEO @Infosys on 23/08/2021 awarded a contract to develop nationals were brought back in the Hindon airbase near Delhi. at a scale beyond all civilised evacuation missions amid con- Kabul,” External Affairs ported by our Embassy to explain to FM as to why even the next-generation income a special Air India flight from “I am feeling like crying. contemplation. Afghanistan is tinuing chaos and a challeng- Ministry spokesperson @IndEmbDushanbe. More after 2.5 months since launch tax filing system to reduce Dushanbe, a day after they Everything is finished. It is a going through a difficult time, ing ground situation, sources Arindam Bagchi tweeted hours evacuation flights to follow,” of new e-filing portal, glitches processing time for returns were evacuated to the Tajikistan very difficult and painful deci- and only good leadership, com- said. The multi-agency group before the plane landed at Bagchi tweeted at around 1:20 in the portal have not been from 63 days to one day and capital in an IAF C-130J trans- sion to leave the country. We passionate attitude and inter- is coordinating with the Hindon. AM. resolved. In fact, since expedite refunds. port aircraft, officials said. have not seen such a situation. national support to the Afghan ! P K ,-./-01 K ith Afghanistan Kabul: A panicked crush of 0!2/ !" # Wand Pakistan being people trying to enter Kabul’s $% $& the only two countries in international airport killed akistan has decided to allow '## # " the world where polio is seven Afghan civilians in the Pfully-vaccinated Sikh pil- ( O still endemic, India on crowds, the British military grims to visit Gurdwara # # Sunday said as a preven- said on Sunday, showing the Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur from * + tive measure it has danger still posed to those try- next month with strict Covid- decided to give polio ing to flee the Taliban’s takeover 19 protocols, ahead of the vaccinating to those of the country. US Secretary of 482nd death anniversary of returning from the vio- State Antony Blinken too on Sikhism founder Guru Nanak lence-hit nation. Sunday described as “incredibly Dev on September 22, media Union Health volatile” the situation at the air- reports said on Sunday. Minister Mansukh port and said several citizens On this occasion, three- Mandaviya said this on had died. The deaths come as a day rituals will be held at the Sunday even as he shared new, perceived threat from the shrine from September 20. a photo where returnees Islamic State group affiliate in ! $ % $ # Guru Nanak died in Kartarpur could be seen getting Afghanistan has seen US mili- # on September 22, 1539. jabs at the Delhi inter- tary planes do rapid, diving Pilgrimage to the national airport. In 2014, combat landings at the airport rity warning telling citizens not They said there have been Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara was India was officially surrounded by Taliban fighters.

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