✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In a tweet, Dr Jaishankar said, both continued their discussions on Afghanistan and also exchanged views on the agenda of UNSC.
2. India seeks response from Bangladesh to resume air-bubble flights from September 3. The Civil Aviation Ministry has sought some clarification from the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) on a few provisions on its categorisation of passengers before resuming flights from September 3.
3. India extends ban on international flights till Sep 30 due to the coronavirus outbreak. Scheduled international passenger services have been suspended in India since March 23, 2020.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. President Joe Biden has said that if diplomacy does not resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis, America is ready to turn to other options. He was speaking in Washington after the first face-to-face talks with Israel’s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett.
2. US confirms unmanned airstrike on vehicle with suspected ISIS-K planner near Kabul Hamad Karzai International Airport on 29 Aug in which six people were reportedly killed.
3. In the wake of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, on August 28, former Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah’s daughter Heela Najibullah made an appeal to the global community for ‘sustainable peace’ in the war-ravaged country. She urged countries involved in the Afghan conflict and those negotiating peace to not ‘legitimise the Taliban rule’. Heela’s speech surfaced in light of a worldwide anti-Taliban movement involving 30 countries, scheduled on August 28.
4. Taliban seals off Kabul airport, stops people as evacuation process nears end. US President Joe Biden has warned that another terror attack at Kabul airport is ‘highly likely in the next 24-36 hours.
5. Taliban suspend internet, call and message services in Panjshir, Afghanistan.
6. Italian coastguard vessels have rescued 539 migrants from a fishing boat drifting off the island of Lampedusa.
7. The performance test run of the first metro rail in Bangladesh was conducted in Dhaka on 29 Aug (Sunday). The metro rail test run with 6 coaches was conducted over a distance of 6 kilometers from Uttara north to Pallabi. passenger services to start from December next year. On August 23, the Taliban had sent 3 thousand Taliban fighters to the border of Panjshir to capture the valley.
8. China issues new maritime rules to regulate foreign ships in its waters. The new rules are expected to increase tensions if China strictly enforces them in the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan straits where the US and its allies have been conducting naval expeditions.
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