CNN Kabul (CNN)Three people are dead after children found and played with an unexploded mortar in Afghanistan on Sunday, provincial authorities said. A mother, her daughter and another girl died when the mortar detonated in the Sorkhrod district of Nangarhar Province, the Nangarhar authority media office said. Eight other people were injured, including two girls, it said. The mortar is… Read more »
Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Afghan security forces decreased by nearly 11 percent in the past year, the U.S. government’s top watchdog on Afghanistan said on Tuesday, an indication of the difficulty Kabul will have in dealing with its precarious security situation. Afghan policemen stand guard at a gate of a voter registration centre for the upcoming parliamentary… Read more »
France 24 An Indian court jailed a self-styled religious preacher for life on Wednesday for raping a teenage girl, the latest sexual abuse case against a so-called “godman”. A judge delivered the guilty verdict at a jail in the city of Jodhpur, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, where Asumal Harpalani, commonly known as Asaram Bapu, has been held… Read more »
France 24 At least 25 people were killed, including Agence France-Presse chief photographer Shah Marai, BBC reporter Ahmad Shah, and seven other journalists, when two suicide blasts ripped through Kabul on Monday, police and AFP have confirmed. The attacks, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, are the latest deadly assaults on the Afghan capital and have spurred an outpouring… Read more »
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-modi-shows-solidarity-with-gowda-ahead-of-karnataka-polls/articleshow/63992972.cms Prime Minister Naranda Modi lashed out at congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday for “insulting” former Prime minister Deve Gowda, indicating that BJP has kept a door open for rapprochement with Deve Gowda’s, which is expected to emerge as the kingmaker in case the elections throw up a hung assembly. Even though there are differences between the parties, Modi said civility… Read more »