✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. India has been allowed to operate two flights per day from Kabul to evacuate its nationals stranded in Afghanistan.
2. Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on 20 Aug (Friday) provided details about India’s mission to evacuate all citizens stranded in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. Speaking at an event marking the commencement of new Three flights.
3. The permission has been granted by the American and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces which have been controlling operations of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul after the Afghan capital fell to the Taliban on August 15. More than 300 Indian nationals have to be taken out of Kabul.
4. India and Russia signed a deal for the immediate off-the-shelf procurement of 70,000 latest AK 200 series of assault rifles, A deal of jointly manufacture AK-203 rifles in India has been pending since 2018.
5. Indian Army on 20 Aug (Friday) safely repatriated three children of a Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) village who had on 18 Aug (Wednesday) crossed the Line of Control (LOC) in the Poonch Sector.
6. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on August 20 held talks with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani on the situation in Afghanistan as he made a stopover in Doha on his way back from the US. Qatar’s capital Doha has been the venue for the intra-Afghan peace talks
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🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Afghanistan forces recapture three districts from Taliban control.
Pul-e-Hesar, Banu, and Deh Salah – in Baghlan province.
2. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has again called for an immediate ceasefire in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, where govt forces and rebel fighters have been locked in conflict since November.
3. The number of people who died in Wednesday’s jihadist attack on a military convoy escorting civilians in northern Burkina Faso has risen to 80. Eighty militants were also killed in attack near the town of Arbinda.
4. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced that it has suspended all support to war-torn Afghanistan and called for an end to the violence in the nation following the Taliban’s siege of Kabul.
5. G7 Foreign Ministers have called for the international community to unite in its response to the crisis in Afghanistan to prevent it from escalating further.
6. United Kingdom will provide vaccines against COVID-19 to Afghans coming to the country.
7. PM Jacinda Ardern extended New Zealand’s strict nationwide coronavirus lockdown, saying the full extent of the Delta outbreak was still unknown.
8. A lockdown of Australia’s largest city Sydney has been extended to the end of September as authorities struggle to contain a wave of Delta cases of COVID 19.
9. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the United Kingdom’s diplomatic efforts to find a solution in Afghanistan remain ongoing, which leaves open the prospect of working with the Taliban “if necessary”. Speaking to the media after an emergency Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBRA) meeting to discuss the crisis in the region.
10. Taliban officials in the restive Herat province have banned co-education in govt and private universities, describing it as the ‘root of all evils in society. This is the first ‘fatwa’ issued by the Taliban.
11. Taliban group’s co-founder and deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said, The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan wants diplomatic and trade ties with all countries around the world, including the United States.
12. Former Afghanistan president, Ashraf Ghani’s brother, Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzi has reportedly pledged support to the Taliban.
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Ch Narmada Naveen Kumar |
