✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. A special Indian Air Force repatriation flight ferrying 168 evacuees from Kabul landed at the Ghaziabad Hindon air base. India has been allowed to operate two flights per day from Kabul to evacuate its nationals stranded in Afghanistan,.
2. Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan thanks PM Modi and Ministry of External Affairs for Afghan evacuation.
3. Indian naval ship Shakti carrying 100 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen reached Sri Lanka on Sunday to help the island nation combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
4. Two Indian Naval Ships Arrive in Guam to Take Part in Malabar Exercise:: The Malabar exercise started in 1992 as a bilateral drill between the Indian Navy and the US Navy in the Indian Ocean.
5. The Quad countries — India, the US, Australia and Japan — will conduct the next edition of the high-voltage Malabar naval exercise from August 26 to 29 off the coast of Guam in the face of China’s growing military muscle-flexing in the Indo-Pacific. Indian stealth frigate INS Shivalik and anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kadmatt arrived in Guam, an island territory of the US in the Western Pacific.
6. Pakistan to allow Sikh pilgrims to visit Kartarpur Sahib next month under strict COVID-19 protocols.
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🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. The Taliban fired in the air and used batons to make people line up in orderly queues outside Kabul airport. A NATO official said that at least 20 people have died in the past seven days in and around the airport. Some were shot and others died in stampedes.
2. Seven Afghans have died in the chaos near Kabul airport as the British defence secretary expressed support for extending Washington’s end-of-the-month deadline to permit the evacuation of so many people.
3. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will convene a meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven nations on Tuesday for urgent talks on the situation in Afghanistan. The UK holds this year’s presidency of the G-7 nations, which is also made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.
4. Al-Qaeda not present in Afghanistan, says Talibane spokesman Mohammed Naeem.
5. Panjshir on Taliban Target, ‘Hundreds’ of Fighters Out to Capture Valley of Resistance. Panjshir had been a resistance stronghold against the Soviets in the 1980s & then against the Taliban in the 1990s.
Hundreds of Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate are heading towards the state of Panjshir to control it, after local state officials refused to hand it over peacefully.
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