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Some more flights are evacuation exercise following even after over two months of planned in the days to come to the Taliban takeover of the launch. safely bring back stranded country, Union Housing and However, after about two Indian citizens from Urban Affairs Minister days of the portal being Afghanistan. Hardeep Singh Puri on unavailable, Infosys late on A team of Indian officials Sunday cited the evacuations Sunday said emergency main- is now based in Kabul to assist from Afghanistan to back the tenance on the website has con- those Indians who want to controversial Citizenship cluded and it is now live. tain functionalities were either return home. However, the Amendment Act (CAA). The Infosys India Business, which unavailable or working slow. operations will depend on law allows citizenship to per- is the Twitter handle of Infosys Consequently, the I-T those willing to return being secuted non-Muslims who India Business unit, in a tweet department had to allow man- able to reach the airport. The reached India before 2015. on Sunday evening said: “The ual filing of remittance forms Taliban has set up checkpoints “Recent developments in emergency maintenance of the and also extend due dates for at various places in the Afghan our volatile neighbourhood @IncomeTaxIndia portal has electronic filing of forms relat- capital and roads leading to it and the way Sikhs & Hindus Taliban takeover of concluded and the portal is live. ed to intimation by pension from other provinces, sources are going through a harrow- Afghanistan has triggered an We regret any inconvenience funds and sovereign wealth said here on Sunday. ! ing time are precisely why it exodus, especially of foreign- caused to taxpayers.” funds. Giving details of the oper- was necessary to enact the ers, religious and sectarian The new income tax e-fil- “Ministry of Finance has ation to fly back the lucky ones Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, said.Separately, 135 Indians, said. “India is our 2nd home. Citizenship Amendment Act,” minorities. ing portal Incometax.Gov.In, summoned Salil Parekh, MD to New Delhi and Hindon were flown from Kabul to who were earlier evacuated Even if we are Afghans and live the Minister tweeted, quoting Over the past week, hun- developed by Infosys, had a &CEO @Infosys on 23/08/2021 near the national Capital on Hindon airbase near Delhi in from Kabul to Doha in the last in that country, people often a media report on the evacu- dreds of Afghan Sikhs and bumpy start from the day of its to explain to FM as to why even Sunday, officials said the res- a C-17 Globemaster transport few days by the US and NATO call us Hindustanis. I thank ation of 168 people - which Hindus have been lining up at launch on June 7, as it contin- after 2.5 months since launch cued people included two aircraft of the IAF on Sunday. aircraft were flown back from India for extending its helping included 23 Afghan Sikhs the Kabul international air- ued to face tech glitches with of new e-filing portal, glitches Afghan Members of Another group of 87 the Qatari capital city to Delhi hand,” Khalsa told reporters and Hindus - from Kabul by port, looking for a way out of users complaining that cer- in the portal have not been Parliament. With the latest Indians and two Nepalese on a special flight, they said. atHindon airbase near Delhi. the Indian Air Force. The Afghanistan. evacuation, the number of nationals were brought back in The group of 168 people, people flown in by India from a special Air India flight from who were evacuated from Kabul since last Monday Dushanbe, a day after they Kabul, included Afghan law- - reached 590. were evacuated to the makers Anarkali Honaryar A total of 168 people, Tajikistan capital in an IAF C- and Narender Singh Khalsa ! including 107 Indians and 23 130J transport aircraft, officials and their families, sources ! # $ )*))+ Kabul: A panicked crush of , people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed day before the reopening of seven Afghan civilians in the Athe Shree Mandir for peo- crowds, the British military ple from all over world, a spe- hubaneswar on Monday ith Afghanistan and said on Sunday, showing the cial centre was set up by police Bregistered 237 Covid-19 WPakistan being the only danger still posed to those on Sunday to take feedbacks positive cases; and with this, two countries in the world trying to flee the Taliban’s from devotees. Devotees can the total tally in the capital city where polio is still endemic, takeover of the country. US submit their feedbacks on increased to 1,05,512.Out of India on Sunday said as a pre- Secretary of State Antony police service at temple either the 237 new cases, 160 were ventive measure it has decid- Blinken too on Sunday manually by submitting a form local contacts and 77 from ed to give polio vaccinating to described as “incredibly or an online QR code scanning quarantine. The local con- those returning from the vio- volatile” the situation at the system. Police have set up QR tacts included 10 cases in lence-hit nation. airport and said several citizens code scanners at parking lots Patia, followed by nine in IRC Union Health Minister had died. The deaths come as and some other important Village and seven each in Mansukh Mandaviya said this a new, perceived threat from ! $ % $ # places where devotees can send Khandagiri and on Sunday even as he shared a the Islamic State group affili- # their feedbacks online, police Dumduma.The active cases photo where returnees could be ate in Afghanistan has seen US sources said. Meanwhile, police in the city stood at 3,379. seen getting jabs at the Delhi military planes do rapid, div- the US Embassy issued a new threat but described it as sig- have deployed 10 platoons of Meanwhile, one more international airport. In 2014, ing combat landings at the air- security warning telling citi- nificant. They said there have force, an Additional SP and 20 patient succumbed to the dis- India was officially declared "# port surrounded by Taliban zens not to travel to the Kabul been no confirmed attacks as other officers to regulate crowd ease in the city, pushing the polio-free, along with the rest fighters.Other aircraft have airport without individual yet by the militants, who have in and around the temple total death toll to 980. of the South-East Asia Region. and fIPV, as a preventive mea- ensure public health. Take a shot off flares on takeoff, an instruction from a US battled the Taliban in the past. Notably, after allowing Sevayat However, 183 persons recov- “We have decided to vac- sure against the Wild Polio look at the vaccination drive at effort to confuse possible heat- Government representative. On Sunday, the British military families and Puri citizens ear- ered from the disease in the cinate Afghanistan returnees Virus. Congratulations to the Delhi International Airport,” seeking missiles targeting the Officials declined to provide acknowledged the seven deaths lier, temple is now to reopen for last 24 hours, increasing the with free polio vaccine - OPV Health Team for their efforts to Mandaviya tweeted. planes. The changes come as more specifics about the IS of civilians in crowds in Kabul. devotees from Monday. total recoveries to 1,01,079. %& ! R % ( ! ! fter exposing the murky Adeals of a section of Hurriyat leaders who were found selling # t least 2,800 trees will be Pakistan-based MBBS seats to he Jagannath Temple here, Achopped for the develop- fund terrorism in the Kashmir Twhich is closed for public ment of the proposed Rs between the Uttar Pradesh Valley, the Union Government Nayagarh 22, Kendrapada and since April 24 due to the Covid- 242.14-crore Ayodhya airport Government and Airport is set to impose a permanent ban Mayurbhanj 21 each, 19 situation, would reopen for in Uttar Pradesh. However, Authority of India (AAI), on both factions of the Hurriyat Sambalpur 19, Bhadrak 18, all devotees from Monday.The the Government is making which is project proponent. Conference under the stringent Keonjhar 16, Deogarh 13, darshan timings would be from sure that nature does not pay Besides 2,800 trees, the AAI has Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Bargarh and Sundargarh 12 7 am to 7 pm. The temple for the developmental projects identified at least 298 other Act (UAPA). each, Ganjam 11, Dhenkanal would remain closed for pub- in Ayodhya. The plantation of obstacles, including seven cell The Hurriyat Conference 10, Rayagada four, Kalahandi lic darshan on all Saturdays and more than 7,87,00,000 trees has towers, four each electric poles was formed in 1993 with 26 BHUBANESWAR: The State and Koraput three each, Sundays as a measure to con- mitted. Jagannath Ballav Math premise been stipulated under com- and sign boards, which will be groups, including some pro- on Sunday reported a Balangir and Jharsuguda two tain the spread of CovidID-19 Chewing of tobacco/ or any other designated place.