The Central government on Monday scheduled an all-party meeting on August 26 at 11 am in Delhi to address the Afghanistan crisis, which has shocked the world in the past few weeks since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has instructed external affairs minister S Jaishankar to hold the meeting to address the developments in neighbouring Afghanistan and India’s stand on it. Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Prahlad Joshi informed via tweet that Jaishankar will brief the floor leaders of political parties.

It is expected that the meeting will be focused on the mission to evacuate all Indians from Afghanistan as the government is more concern about the Indians who have been trapped in Afghanistan. For which, the government has increased the pace to airlift Indians to India from Afghanistan.

As the Taliban rapidly taking over the control of the cities in Afghanistan over the past few weeks, several countries, including India, had started evacuating their citizens from Afghanistan but, however, many are still stuck in the country hit by a political crisis.  

As part of India’s evacuation mission from Afghanistan, around 730 people, including members of the Afghan Sikh and Hindu communities, have already been safely airlifted to India.

Moreover,  India on Monday brought back another 146 Indians on four different flights from Qatar’s capital Doha, days after they were evacuated from Afghanistan by NATO and American aircraft in view of the deteriorating security situation in the war-torn country.

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On the other hand, Taliban has given an ultimatum to US forces to leave Kabul by August 31. Otherwise, it will have to bear the consequences.

The Taliban swept across Afghanistan over the past few weeks, seizing control of almost all key towns and cities, including capital Kabul, following the withdrawal of US forces from the country. The Taliban seized control of Kabul on August 15 as President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan.

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Tamil Nadu Government  for the first time launched it’s Exclusive Education TV channel aimed at benefiting students of classes I to XII on Monday, August 26, 2019.

An initiative of the School Education Department, “Kalvi Tholaikkatchi” (Education TV) was launched by Chief Minister K Palaniswami. “The (content will include) training for competitive exams, skill development, announcements made by the School Education Department, modern learning and talks by academicians,” K Palaniswami said. It will only include shows, aimed at school children, besides those on jobs and related issues. “Students can now learn from home,” School Education Minister K A Sengkottaiyan said at the launch event. A team of 25 teachers will run the channel. 

The launch of this channel was planned in the month of January but it was delayed due to the preparatory work involved in designing the programmes, working on the schedule and setting up the required infrastructure. The channel will be available on TN Arasu Cable TV Network (channel number 200). The schools made sure that the launch event is witnessed by all the children in the school premises by arranging projectors, from 3 pm to 4 pm. And the schools that didn’t have a cable connection witnessed the event on the Youtube channel ‘Kalvi tholaikkaatchi.’ 

Over the past few months The School Education Department has been taking steps to make cable connection available in all government schools to make sure children can watch the channel. 

School Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan said, “The launch of the TV channel in Tamil Nadu was being done for the first time.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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