✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Indian Air Force transport aircrafts, deployed to evacuate Indians from Afghanistan, have returned to their respective home bases. IAF had deployed its C-17 Globemasters and C-130J Super Hercules aircraft for evacuation operations of Indians stuck in Afghanistan. The operations after the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban were also carried out under extreme conditions.
2. The Garud commandos of the Air Force also had joined hands with the ITBP personnel posted in the crisis-hit country. The External Affairs Ministry has said that the government is committed to the safe return of all Indian nationals from Afghanistan.
3. Defence minister Rajnath Singh on 29 Aug (Sunday) said discussions on the creation of joint commands and their implementation were progressing well and fast, indicating that differences between stakeholders on the theaterisation model are being addressed and India is on course to set up theatre commands.
4. India and Russia are expecting to conclude the bilateral logistics agreement, Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Agreement (RELOS), and a Navy to Navy cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) when Russian Defence Minister Gen Sergei Shoigu visits.
5. Taliban leader Sher Mohammed Abbas Stanekzai has said the group wants to continue Afghanistan’s political, economic and cultural ties with India, the first time a member of the Taliban’s top hierarchy has spoken on the issue since the takeover of Kabul.
Want good India-Afghanistan relations, says Taliban leader.
6. INS Airavat reaches Ho Chi Minh City Port in Vietnam with COVID Relief Material as part of Mission Sagar. INS Airavat, an indigenously built Landing Ship Tank (Large) under the Eastern Naval Command based at Visakhapatnam, is on a deployment to South East Asia for trans-shipment of COVID Relief aid.
7. India is going to host a very important conference on International Climate Summit 2020-21 on September 3, 2021
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. The Islamic State has purportedly claimed responsibility for Monday’s rocket attack on Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. Several rockets have been fired towards the capital’s airport, a day before the US formally winds up its 20-year-old Afghanistan mission.
2. Nearly two weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has dropped the reference to the militant group in a recurring paragraph in its statements calling upon Afghan groups not to support terrorists operating on their territory.
3. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has opened applications for tourist visas from all countries starting August 30. As per the new UAE travel guidelines, tourists will need to be vaccinated with one of the Covid-19 vaccine shots approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).
4. The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, has said that North Korea appears to have restarted its Yongbyon nuclear reactor.
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