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More than 140 “patient” before deciding its Government’s approach committed to ensuring a full 2 O Afghans were wounded, an far more radical than the received at least 60 patients Kirby said one explosion was approach towards the Taliban. towards Taliban and possible evacuation as soon as possible.” &'89 Afghan official said. Taliban, who recently took wounded in the airport attack, near an airport entrance and The Centre also said the engagement with it, he told He also said Prime 2 2 One of the bombers struck control of the country in a in addition to 10 who were another was a short distance Taliban has broken the promis- reporters the situation in Minister Narendra Modi had 2 O people standing knee-deep in lightning blitz and condemned dead when they arrived. away by a hotel. es made in the Doha agreement Afghanistan has not settled spoken to German Chancellor a wastewater canal under the the attack. “Surgeons will be working Even as the area was hit, about allowing religious free- down. “You will have to keep Angela Merkel and Russian 0'0 sweltering sun, throwing bod- Western officials had into the night,” said Marco evacuation flights continued to dom and democracy in patience: Let the situation set- President Vladimir Putin. ) & ies into the fetid water. Those warned of a major attack, urg- Puntin, the charity’s manager in take off from Kabul airport. Afghanistan. tle down.” He also said all the There will be more such high- who moments earlier had ing people to leave the airport, Afghanistan. The wounded Adam Khan was waiting At present, the top priori- parties have similar views and level calls in the days to come, hoped to get on flights out but that advice went largely overflowed the triage zone into nearby when he saw the first ty is to evacuate all Indian cit- “we approached the issue with he said. O P could be seen carrying the unheeded by Afghans desper- the physiotherapy area and explosion outside what’s known izens from the strife torn coun- spirit of national unity.” “We have undertaken evac- #$% 9 wounded to ambulances in a ate to escape the country in the more beds were being added, as the Abbey gate. The second try, External Affairs Minister S Making these assertions, uation operations in extreme- daze, their own clothes dark- last few days of an American- he said. blast was near Baron Hotel, Jaishankar said here after brief- the Minister said, “We have ly difficult conditions, espe- ened with blood. led evacuation before the US The Afghan official who where many people, including ing an all-party meeting on the brought back most Indians... cially at the airport. Our imme- LM A US official said the com- officially ends its 20-year pres- confirmed the overall Afghan Afghans, Britons and situation in Afghanistan. not all. Some could not make diate concern and task are 0 0 plex attack was believed to ence on August 31. toll spoke on the condition of Americans, were told to gath- He said the Government is it for yesterday’s (Wednesday) evacuation, and the long-term have been carried out by the Emergency, an Italian char- anonymity because he was not er before heading to the airport committed to “full evacuation” flight. We will definitely try and interest is the friendship for the & Islamic State (ISIS) group. The ity that operates hospitals in authorised to brief the media. for evacuation. of Indians from Afghanistan, bring back everyone. We have Afghan people,” he said. ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan is Afghanistan, said it had Pentagon spokesman John Continued on Page 2 where the situation is “critical.” instituted an e-visa policy and Continued on Page 2 LM :' & #!%& # #$% %& '( " *+* ! )!! & '(' !(# * " ) & & ;+<;81 & ;+<;81 +) ( ! !! he Supreme Court on ' ;+<;81 TThursday came down hard he CBI has registered nine !( & ;+<;81 " on the Tihar jail administration fter almost two and a half Tcases related to post-poll calling it “shameless” for allow- Ayears, the Directorate of violence in West Bengal. ( he Government on ing former Unitech promoters General of Civil Aviation All the four special units of TThursday dismissed reports & ;+<;81 to carry out business from an (DGCA) has now lifted the ban the investigating agency tasked that there is any proposal for a underground office within the on Boeing 737 Max for com- to probe the cases of violence change in the dose gap of iling of sedition cases when jail premises with the con- mercial flight operations. The have moved their units from Covishield, Covaxin and Fregimes change is a “dis- nivance of jail staff. The court decision is likely to offer relief Kolkata to crime scenes across Sputnik V vaccines. However, turbing trend”, the Supreme directed that former Unitech to domestic carrier SpiceJet the State. The units are being it said processes are under way Court said on Thursday while promoters Sanjay Chandra and which has 13 Boeing Max air- secured by teams of CRPF to assess the effectiveness of granting protection from arrest Ajay Chandra be shifted from craft in its fleet. personnel, sources said. these Covid vaccines. to the suspended Director of Tihar Jail to Mumbai’s Arthur After the DGCA order, They said more cases are “Programmatic data col- Chhattisgarh Police Academy Road Jail and Taloja prison in SpiceJet said it “expects to start under the process of registra- lection processes are on to The decision to extend the against whom two criminal Maharashtra. operations of MAX aircraft tion. assess vaccine effectiveness. gap to 12 to 16 weeks was met cases of sedition and amassing The apex court issued around the end of September The CBI has taken over the NTAGI reviewing vaccine with controversy as it was of disproportionate assets have on the grounds of his alleged shifting from Tihar jail after 2021 subject to regulatory cases following order by a five- effectiveness data on a regular regarded as an attempt to been filed by the State involvement in promoting seeing the Enforcement approvals.” judge bench of the Calcutta basis. Currently, there’s no pro- address the country’s vaccina- Government. enmity and hatching a con- Directorate’s report accusing The Boeing 737 Max were High Court that had entrusted posal for change in dose inter- tion shortage at the time. “State of affairs in the coun- spiracy against the Chandra brothers of conduct- globally grounded in March the agency with the task of on a batch of PILs seeking an val Covishield, Covaxin and Experts, on the other hand, try is sad,” said a bench head- Government. ing business from jail with the 2019 soon after two aircraft investigating the alleged mur- independent probe, the High Sputnik V vaccines under con- claimed the decision was based ed by Chief Justice NV The bench expressed dis- help of jail staff. The top court, crashed within five months. In der and rape incidents in post- Court bench also ordered the sideration,” NTAGI (National on new international scientif- Ramana. pleasure over the trend of fil- which perused two status all 346 died in two crashes. Assembly polls violence in constitution of an SIT of State Technical Advisory Group on ic studies that showed that a Gurjinder Pal Singh, the ing of sedition cases just after reports of the ED, said Tihar In its order, the DGCA said West Bengal earlier this year. police officers to probe all Immunisation in India) chief longer gap between dosages 1994-batch IPS officer who senior advocate FS Nariman Jail Superintendent and other that this rescission enables The HC’s directives came other cases. Dr NK Arora said. produced more antibodies. had served as the IG of Raipur, made opening submissions on staff are “absolutely shame- operation of Boeing Company after a committee of the The SIT will include The clarification comes However, in June, after Durg and Bilaspur during the behalf of Singh, saying “the less” for conniving with the Model 737-8 and Boeing National Human Rights Suman Bala Sahoo, Soumen after media reports that the India lengthened the interval earlier BJP rule, was initially gentleman has served as the Chandra brothers to flout the Company Model 737-9 air- Commission submitted a Mitra and Ranveer Kumar, all Centre is planning a reduction between the two doses, studies booked in the disproportionate Additional Director General of court orders and undermine its planes only upon satisfaction of report on the violence after IPS officers of the West Bengal in the time interval between the claimed that the effectiveness of assets case following raids at his Police (ADGP) and was acting jurisdiction.