* + 7!4 8 5 ( 5 5 VRGR '%&((!1#VCEB R BP A"'!#$#1!$"$#$%T utqBVQWBuxy( (*+,(-'./ ,2,23 0,-1$( ,-./ 31<O62!12!&/$.& @ /< '% 261&$/$ 42/1$/%-; <3 .1<&/.1%.& 23&6 %2 /$!-< 26-$&/ 6& -1$6&$%6 -1& 4$&61 31&!$!12$6-624<@ &$6/$ 2!<12/$ 2>&-%&!$< $2</4.=?- 4216&4% 1=426&.&4>$'&=3&4& / - !$%&' (() *99 :& (2 & 0 1&0121'3'1& " # $ 2342/1$ 2342/1$ s the new I-T portal con- tepping up efforts to bring its Atinued to have glitches and Scitizens back home, India on remained unavailable for two Sunday airlifted 392 people, consecutive days, the Finance besides some Afghan politi- Ministry “summoned” Infosys cians, from Kabul to New Delhi. 2342/1$ MD and CEO Salil Parekh on They were evacuated in three Monday to explain to Finance different flights of the Indian mid the Afghanistan crisis Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Air Force (IAF) and Air India. Aand India’s ongoing evac- the reasons for the continued Some more flights are planned uation exercise following the snags even after over two in the days to come to safely Taliban takeover of the coun- months of the site’s launch. bring back stranded Indian cit- try, Union Housing and Urban However, just ahead of the izens from Afghanistan. Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh meeting with Sitharaman, A team of Indian officials Puri on Sunday cited the evac- Infosys late on Sunday night is now based in Kabul to assist uations from Afghanistan to said that emergency mainte- those Indians who want to back the controversial nance on the website had been return home. However, the Citizenship Amendment Act concluded and the portal was unavailable or too slow. operations will depend on (CAA). The law allows citi- live again. Infosys India Consequently, the I-T those willing to return being ! zenship to persecuted non- Business, which is the Twitter Department had to allow man- able to reach the airport. The Muslims who reached India handle of Infosys India ual filing of remittance forms Taliban has set up checkpoints Sunday, officials said the res- ing 107 Indians and 23 Afghan The group of 168 people, who before 2015. Business unit, in a tweet said: and also extend due dates for at various places in the Afghan cued people included two Sikhs and Hindus, were flown were evacuated from Kabul, “Recent developments in “The emergency maintenance electronic filing of forms relat- capital and roads leading to it Afghan Members of from Kabul to Hindon airbase included Afghan lawmakers our volatile neighbourhood of the @IncomeTaxIndia por- ed to intimation by pension from other provinces, sources Parliament. With the latest near Delhi in a C-17 Anarkali Honaryar and and the way Sikhs & Hindus takeover of Afghanistan has tal has concluded and the por- funds and sovereign wealth said here on Sunday. evacuation, the number of peo- Globemaster transport aircraft of Narender Singh Khalsa and are going through a harrowing triggered an exodus, especial- tal is live. We regret any incon- funds. Giving details of the oper- ple flown in by India from the IAF on Sunday. Another their families, sources said. time are precisely why it was ly of foreigners, religious and venience caused to taxpayers.” “Ministry of Finance has ation to fly back the lucky ones Kabul since last Monday group of 87 Indians and two “India is our second home. necessary to enact the sectarian minorities. The new income tax e-fil- summoned Salil Parekh, MD to New Delhi and Hindon reached 590. Nepalese nationals were brought Even if we are Afghans and live Citizenship Amendment Act,” Over the past week, hun- ing portal Incometax.Gov.In, &CEO @Infosys on 23/08/2021 near the national Capital on A total of 168 people, includ- back in a special Air India flight in that country, people often the Minister tweeted, quoting dreds of Afghan Sikhs and developed by Infosys, had a to explain to FM as to why even from Dushanbe, a day after they call us Hindustanis. I thank a media report on the evacua- Hindus have been lining up at bumpy start from the day of its after 2.5 months since launch . Q R were evacuated to the Tajikistan India for extending its helping tion of 168 people — which the Kabul international air- launch on June 7, as it contin- of new e-filing portal, glitches capital in an IAF C-130J trans- hand,” Khalsa told reporters at included 23 Afghan Sikhs and port, looking for a way out of ued to face tech glitches with in the portal have not been 5 6 port aircraft, officials said. the Hindon airbase near Delhi. Hindus — from Kabul by the Afghanistan. users complaining that cer- resolved. Separately, 135 Indians, Continued on Page 2 Indian Air Force. The Taliban Continued on Page 2 tain functionalities were either Continued on Page 2 Dubai: The Taliban said on Sunday that “hundreds” of its fight- who were earlier evacuated ers were heading to the Panjshir Valley, one of the few parts of from Kabul to Doha in the last Afghanistan not yet controlled by the group. Since the Taliban few days by the US and NATO overran Afghanistan, flickers of resistance have begun to aircraft were flown back from emerge with some ex-Government troops gathering in the the Qatari capital city to Delhi ! Panjshir, north of Kabul, long known as an anti-Taliban bastion. on a special flight, they said. O Kabul: A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s $/& &.&4 international airport killed 2342/1$ seven Afghan civilians in the akistan has decided to allow P crowds, the British military Pfully-vaccinated Sikh pil- ith Afghanistan and said on Sunday, showing the grims to visit Gurdwara Darbar !" WPakistan being the only danger still posed to those try- Sahib, Kartarpur from next K $ %& two countries in the world ing to flee the Taliban’s takeover month with strict Covid-19 'K where polio is still endemic, of the country. US Secretary of protocols, ahead of the 482nd () ( India on Sunday said as a pre- State Antony Blinken, too, on death anniversary of Sikhism’s ventive measure it has decid- Sunday described as “incredibly founder Guru Nanak Dev on &( *+ *, ed to give polio vaccinating to volatile” the situation at the air- September 22, media reports (( those returning from the vio- port and said several citizens said on Sunday. -O ( ( lence-hit nation. had died. The deaths come as a On this occasion, three-day )( Union Health Minister new, perceived threat from the rituals will be held at the shrine $) ( Mansukh Mandaviya said this Islamic State group affiliate in ! $ % $ # from September 20. Guru on Sunday even as he shared a Afghanistan has seen US mili- # Nanak died in Kartarpur on photo where returnees could be tary planes do rapid, diving September 22, 1539. ! seen getting jabs at the Delhi combat landings at the airport rity warning telling citizens not been no confirmed attacks as yet Pilgrimage to the Kartarpur .' international airport. In 2014, surrounded by Taliban fighters. to travel to the Kabul airport by the militants, who have bat- Sahib gurdwara was suspended ! / India was officially declared "# Other aircraft have shot off without individual instruction tled the Taliban in the past. in March 2020 because of the polio-free, along with the rest flares on takeoff, an effort to from a US Government repre- On Sunday, the British mil- Covid-19 outbreak. Due to the ! of the South-East Asia Region. and fIPV, as a preventive mea- ensure public health. Take a confuse possible heat-seeking sentative. Officials declined to itary acknowledged the seven Delta variant, India was in cat- “We have decided to vac- sure against the Wild Polio look at the vaccination drive at missiles targeting the planes. provide more specifics about the deaths of civilians in the crowds egory C in Pakistan from May cinate Afghanistan returnees Virus. Congratulations to the Delhi International Airport,” The changes come as the IS threat but described it as sig- in Kabul. 22 till August 12. 01 with free polio vaccine — OPV Health Team for their efforts to Mandaviya tweeted. US Embassy issued a new secu- nificant. They said there have Continued on Page 2 Detailed report on P8 "& %& ! " #$ R $ !R '& %5 2342/1$ headed by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq. fter exposing the murky The original separatist con- "'#('#))#))) pensatory afforestation as per Purushottam Sriram Airport, ## " solve the crisis. Adeals of a section of Hurriyat glomerate broke into two fac- the project report. Ayodhya, will be spread over 2342/1$56&$%6 Baghel and Deo are likely leaders who were found selling tions in 2005. The moderate The Yogi Government’s pet 347.62 acres (140.67 ha) of to meet AICC general secretary Pakistan-based MBBS seats to group was led by the Mirwaiz project, Ayodhya Airport, is land, including 177.62 acres ith resentment between organisation KC Venugopal, fund terrorism in the Kashmir and the hard-line faction was planned to be developed in needed for existing runway. WChhattisgarh Chief State in-charge PL Punia, Valley, the Union Government headed by Syed Ali Shah Faziabad city. It will serve the About 170 acres (68.79 ha) of Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Pawan Bansal among few oth- is set to impose a permanent ban Geelani. Both factions are esti- districts of Bahraich, Gonda, additional land has already his Cabinet colleague TS Singh ers first and, then if need be, on both factions of the Hurriyat mated to have linkages with Sultanpur, Amethi and Basti in been hand over by the district Deo growing and both washing former party chief Rahul Conference under the stringent Pakistan’s ISI-Army combine as " 2342/1$ eastern Uttar Pradesh administration for the pro- dirty linen in public, the Gandhi and then Congress Unlawful Activities (Prevention) also the political parties there, The proposed airport, to be posed development activities.