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Indian Air Force rescue plane C130J, carrying 85 Indian citizens, took off from Afghanistan on Saturday, but another 150 are stranded at the Kabul airport, Amar Sinha, Former Ambassador to Afghanistan, tells NDTV. "Taliban's people on the check posts did not allow Hindus and Sikhs who are Afghan citizens to move, and that is how another delay took place; they looked at the documents and only allowed those with Indian passports to come in," he says.

Dr Sharvil Patel, Managing Director of Zydus Group, speaks to NDTV on ZyCoV-D, the world's first Plasmid DNA Vaccine for Covid. "A lot of vaccine hesitancy is driven by the fear of the needle, this removes that worry," he says.

For years, India assiduously built relations with the Northern Alliance -- military, financial and medical. This force swept to power in Kabul 20 years ago. Is it time to revive and strengthen those links in the Panjshir Valley?

Should India engage with the Taliban? What's at stake for India in Afghanistan? What will be the repercussions in India after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan? The hijack of passenger aircraft IC-814 in 1999 was India's first brush with the Taliban and it's a memory that refuses to leave the Indian psyche. Can India trust the Taliban? What should our strategy be? We debate.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has been cleared of all charges linked to wife's death, with the Delhi High Court refusing to frame charges against the former Union Minister. It has been a 7.5-year wait for justice for Mr Tharoor, who stated that he has "weathered unfounded accusations and media vilification". While "the long nightmare and years of torture" might be over, the case proceedings have once again fuelled a debate - is it time for action against reputation-ruining media trials? We ask legal experts, including the Counsel for Rhea Chakraborty, about the need to expedite criminal justice system improvements and how media trials impact cases in public attention.

On Left, Right and Centre, Sushmita Dev, who recently defected to the Trinamool Congress from the Congress, speaks on the past and the future, why she left the Congress, and whether a united Opposition can challenge the BJP.

Tonight, exclusive details of how the evacuation of Indian mission staff at the Embassy took place, plus what happens now to those stranded. Also, the transition of power in Afghanistan - what happens now on a day the Taliban announced what they called an amnesty, saying women can be a part of the government, their rights are guaranteed under Islamic law. And now, in a press conference, they have said the Islamic emirate is pledging to all world countries that no threat will be posed to any country from Afghanistan. This at a time when the former First Vice President Amrullah Saleh has said that he is the real president of the country with president Ghani having fled. But no one knows where Saleh is.

A chat with Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist PV Sindhu on her future plans and how she uses social media.

"Taliban has proven everybody wrong, nobody thought they would be at the gates of Kabul, within eight days of starting their assault on provincial capitals; the passport office of Afghanistan is overwhelmed," says war correspondent Ayesha Tanzeem, VOA Bureau Chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan on Taliban's rapid advance in Afghanistan.