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Amid celebratory fire by Taliban...

Last US plane flies out of Af 40-storey

A merica has ended its longest
war in Afghanistan, President
Joe Biden announced on Tuesday,
hours after the final US evacuation
plane flew out of Kabul airport
amid celebratory gunfire from the
Taliban, leaving the country in dis-
array and its future uncertain un-
der the rule of hardline Islamist
militants. The last plane carrying
US forces left Afghanistan around
midnight on Monday night, a day
ahead of schedule, ending a 20-year
war that left nearly 2,500 American
troops dead and spanned four presi-
dencies. The C17 aircraft’s depar-
ture from Kabul’s international air-
port was the final chapter in a con-
tentious military effort, which
towers to
eventually saw the US handing
Afghanistan back to the very Is-
lamist militants it had sought to
be razed
root out when American troops en-
tered the country in 2001. Celebrato-
ry gunfire and fireworks erupted
I n a major blow to real
estate company Su-
pertech, the Supreme
across Kabul as Taliban fighters Court, on Tuesday, di-
took control of the airport following rected the demolition of
the withdrawal, proclaiming “full its two 40-storey build-
independence” for Afghanistan. ings in one of its housing
“Now, our 20-year military presence
in Afghanistan has ended,” Biden
said, thanking the armed forces.

No terrorism: UNSC
T he UN Security Council, under
India’s Presidency, adopted a
strong resolution demanding that
the territory of Afghanistan not be

MU best in state used to threaten any country or

shelter terrorists and that it ex-

W ith an A++ rating and a Cumu-

lative Grade Point Average
(CGPA) of 3.65 Mumbai University be-
came the best rated public University
across Maharashtra. MU has, finally,
received its accreditation four years af-
ter its previous National Accreditation
and Assessment Council (NAAC ) rat-
ing expired. The announcement was
made by Maharashtra higher educa-
tion and Technical education minister
Uday Samant. Vice-chancellor, Mum-
bai University, Professor Suhas Ped-
nekar said, “This is yet another golden
moment in the University’s history of
164 years.”
pects the Taliban will adhere to
commitments made by it on re-
garding the safe and orderly depar-
ture from the country of Afghans
and all foreign nationals. The Se-
curity Council, on Monday, adopt-
ed the resolution sponsored by
France, UK and the US with 13
members voting in favour.
Rain fetches relief
R ain lashed several parts of
Mumbai and its adjoining areas
on Monday night and throughout
projects in Noida. A
bench headed by Justice
Tuesday, providing relief to the citi- DY Chandrachud said
zens of the financial capital from the there was collusion be-
humidity. The Indian Meteorological tween Noida authority
Department (IMD), Mumbai, has and Supertech, while al-
cautioned fishermen against ventur- lowing construction of
ing out into the Arabian Sea at least two towers. The bench
for the next 72 hours due to rough directed that demolition
weather. The IMD has also issued a should be carried out
yellow alert in Mumbai and its ad- within 3 months.
joining areas for the next two days.

BACK FROM
KABUL D ays after three Indo-Tibetian Border
Police (ITBP) hero sniffer dogs were
airlifted along with Indian troops by an
Roobi, IAF C-17 aircraft from war-torn
Maya, Afghanistan to the Jamnagar Air Force
station in Gujarat, the dogs were, on Tues-
Bobby day, taken to their parent unit in Chhattis-
travel garh in a first-class air-conditioned coach
of the Indian Railways. An ITBP official
in style told ANI, “Roobi, Maya and Bobby are
overjoyed to go on a new adventure. They
are excited to be back in India among their
old friends and comrades-in-arms. They
are enjoying their AC 1st Class travel. This
is a normal facility for all ITBP K9s. After
travelling in an IAF cargo plane from Kab-
ul, they are now happy to travel by the
highest class the Indian Railways has to
offer.” The canines had reached the ITBP
Chawala Camp in Delhi on August 18.
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ONE FOR INSPIRATION

The Scholarly Coachman
Mulla Nasruddin once took up a job as a coachman
and, one day, he had to drive his employer to a disrep-
utable part of the town. “Keep your eyes open,” his em-
ployer advised him as he alighted from the coach at his
destination. “This place is infested with thieves.” Some
time later, the man thought of checking on his new em-
ployee. “Is everything all right?
What are you doing now?” he
shouted from a window of the
house he had gone into. “I’m
sitting here wondering what
happens to a man’s lap when
he gets up,” the Mulla shouted
back. A little later, the employ-
er again shouted from the window, “What are you doing
now?!” “I’m wondering what happens to a fist when the
fingers are unclenched,” shouted Nasruddin. His em-
ployer was impressed. “My coachman is no ordinary fel-
low,” he boasted to his hosts. He is a philosopher!” Half
an hour later, he again looked out of the window and
shouted, "What are you doing now?” “I’m wondering
who stole the horses," replied the Mulla.---
Windows 11
rollout on Oct 5
M icrosoft, on Tuesday, an-
nounced that Windows 11 will
launch on October 5, on existing PCs
that are eligible for Windows 11 as
well as new PCs with Windows 11
pre-installed. "The free upgrade to
Windows 11 will begin rolling out to
SII supplied
eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs
that come pre-loaded with Windows
60 crore doses
11 will start to become available for
purchase. A new Windows experi-
ence, Windows 11, is designed to
W ith India crossing the 65-crore
mark for Covid-19 vaccine doses
administered so far, official sources said
bring you closer to what you love," on Tuesday these include over 60 crore
the tech giant said in a statement. Covishield doses supplied by the Serum
Institute. Over 60 crore doses have been
supplied by the Pune-based firm to Gov-
ernment of India, state governments and
private hospitals so far. The SII is trying
to further increase production capacity
to supply 20 crore of Covishield doses per
month from September 2021 onwards.

CIRCUMVENTING BAN
Chinese ‘Made in India’ apps flourishing
D espite India banning certain
popular Chinese apps in the
wake of border skirmishes with
SnackVideo. “Lookalike apps with
different names are functioning
with the tag ‘Make in India’. Does it
China last year, some of those apps make sense to have the apps with
are still present, and thriving, in Chinese money calling themselves
the country with different names. Indian app,” Neeraj Bisht, founder,
Last year, the government had Bharatam, an Indian homegrown
banned 267 Chinese apps, including social media app, told IANS. Cam-
TikTok, PUBG, Helo, UC Browser, Scanner is a preferred app for
Likee, Shareit, WeChat, Mi Com- many Indian users when it comes

Drone munity and more. However, some popu-

lar apps that were banned directly have
hide their Chinese ownership of the
apps. Most of the apps belong to the me-
to scanning documents on a mobile de-
vice. While CamScanner is part of the

killers for made an unnoticed entry into India, as

most of the companies have tried to
dia and entertainment space, which
was earlier captured by TikTok and
banned Chinese applications in the
country, it is still doing business here.

Navy 3mn accounts banned Highest motorable road

nstant messaging platform WhatsApp, on Tuesday, an-

T
he Indian Navy, on Tues-

I A strategically important road, which connects Leh to

day, sealed a contract nounced that it had banned over 3 million Indian ac- the Pangong Lake, was inaugurated here on Tuesday
with defence PSU Bharat counts in the 46-day period from June 16 to July 31. It by Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, who said that the
Electronics Limited for the sup- received 137 stretch passing through the Kela Pass at 18,600 feet would be
ply of the first indigenously de- reports for the world’s highest motorable way. The road will reduce 41
veloped Naval Anti-Drone Sys- account km of travel from Leh to the picturesque Pangong Lake.
tem (NADS). The NADS can in- support, of
stantly detect micro-drones and which one
uses a laser-based “kill mecha- was ac-
nism” to terminate the targets. tioned, and
Serious concerns over threats 316 re-
from enemy drones first quests to
emerged in June when two ban ac-
drones were used by suspected counts, the
Pakistan-based terrorists to at- messaging giant said in its second compliance report un-
tack the IAF base in Jammu. der the new Information Technology Rules, 2021.
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PRESS
SCHOOL 3
TOMATOES FOR LEELA QUICK NEWS’
Pankaj
is BSF chief KiTChen LeSSonS for KidS 3 new women judges in SC
U nion minister for law and
justice Kiren Rijiju, on

I PS officer Pankaj Kumar

Singh on Tuesday took
over as the new Director
General of the Border Secu-
rity Force (BSF). Outgoing
Indo-Tibetan Border Police
DG S.S. Deswal, who was
holding the additional
charge as DG BSF, handed
over the baton to Singh, who
will be the 29th chief of the
BSF, the largest border
guarding force with over
2,65,000 men and women.
Delhi schools
reopen today
D elhi is preparing to re-
open physical classes
from Wednesday and schools
N eela is a young
girl who loves
cooking with her
also is a recipe
writer like me,”
says Lakshmi. “It’s
Tuesday, wished and congratu-
lated all the nine newly appoint-
ed Supreme Court judges,
mom. Saturday is just really about terming it a historic moment for
her favourite day of teaching children gender representation as three
the week. That's the how to cook from an women were among those who
day they go to the early age, respect- were sworn in as judges of the
greengrocer’s. So ing Mother Nature apex court today. Rijiju poster on
begins Padma Lak- and eating when Twitter: ‘It’s a historic moment
for gender representation as
shmi's charming things are in sea-
three women took oath as judges
entry into the world son.” Neela and her
of the Supreme Court.’
of children's book, mom make a sauce
Tomatoes For using tomatoes
Neela, which mixes bought from the
Taliban-india dialogue
the author's memo- greengrocer’s and
fter the US completed its
ries of family cook-
ing with practical food advice and even
create enough to jar
some for winter, saving it to share with
A withdrawal from violence-
hit Afghanistan, Taliban initiat-
a pair of recipes. Penguin Random her grandmother when she next visits ed a dialogue with India in Qatar
House is the publisher of the book. “It’s from India. In the meantime, the grand- over the safety, security and ear-
just a very small personal story that mother gazes down from framed pho- ly return of the Indian nationals
centers on a young single mother who tos, present in spirit. stranded in that country, the
ministry of external affairs said
in a statement on Tuesday. For
'TAKe booSTer ShoTS' 'diSrUpTion Chief inSTrUmenT' the first time, India has made
T he European office of the World
Health Organisation (WHO) has V ice-President M Venkaiah Naidu
Tuesday rued that "disruption" has
public a meeting that was held
between the two sides.

are gearing up to welcome stu-
dents after nearly six months
after educational intuitions
were shut down due to a spike
in Covid cases in the national
capital. Schools in the metrop-
olis are set to open with all
Covid-19 protocols in place
and according to Standard Op-
erating Procedures issued by
the Delhi Disaster Manage-
ment Authority (DDMA).
asked vulnerable citizens to take boost- emerged as the chief instrument of par-
er shots of Covid-19 vaccine, amid surg- liamentary conduct and functioning, not- record 1.09 crore jabs
ing cases of coronavirus across the con- ing that dysfunctional legislatures are he daily COVID-19 vaccina-
tinent, media reports said on Tuesday.
However, this
subversion of the noble principle of con-
stitutionalism.
T tions crossed the 1 crore
mark on Tuesday for the second
contradicts He also said time in five days, taking the cu-
WHO chief Dr that dysfunc- mulative doses administered in
Tedros Ad- tional legisla- the country to over 65-crore, the
hanom Ghe- tures prevent Union Health Ministry said.
Union Health Minister Man-
breyesus' the much-de-
sukh Mandaviya said the high-
stance on Covid sired wider stakeholder consultations be-
est one-day record of 1.09 crore
boosters. Ghebreyesus said last week fore making of laws for the country and
vaccine doses has been achieved
that boosters are not a priority in the framing of policies. "Such disruptions till 6 pm and that 50 crore people
face of slow vaccinations in low and negate the principle of accountability of have received their first dose.
middle-income countries. the executive to the legislatures," he said.

US to continue evacuations free air tickets for Avni, Antil

Antil wants to take on
Hillary
turns thriller writer able-bodied
T he United States says its
mission to get Americans
out of Afghanistan will continue
I ndiGo on Tuesday an-
nounced it will offer unlim-
ited free tickets for one year to

F ormer United States Secre-

tary of State Hillary Clin-
ton, following in the footsteps
of her husband, has embarked
on her journey as a thriller
writer. State of Terror is
Hillary Clinton’s forthcoming
international political thriller,
set in the ‘Byzantine’ world of
Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Iran. It takes off with a “baf-
fling text from an anonymous
source” received by an Indian
American Foreign Service Of-
ficer (FSO), Anahita Dahir.
Buoyed by a record-breaking debut gold
at the Paralympics, Indian javelin thrower
Sumit Antil now wants
to compete against able-
bodied athletes at the
Paris Olympics in three
years’ time. The 23-
year-old from Sonepat,
on Monday, produced
an awe-inspiring per-
formance when he
smashed his own world record—not once,
but five times—to clinch the gold in the
men’s javelin. “I wish to take part in both
the Olympics and Paralympics,” he said.
after Monday’s withdrawal. Jake
Sullivan, US National Security
Adviser, says it’s just that the
Avani Lekhara and Sumit An-
til, who won gold medals at the
Tokyo Paralympics. The un-
evacua- limited free tickets would be
tion effort available to the two athletes on
“has shift- both domestic and internation-
ed from a al routes, starting September 1
military till August 31 next year, the
mission to statement said.
a diplomatic mission.” He cited
“considerable leverage” the US
has over the Taliban to get out
any remaining Americans—a
number that US official have
said is under 200.
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India's medal tally at 10

D efending champion Mariyappan Thangavelu and Sharad Kumar
won a silver and bronze respectively in the men's high jump T42
event as India's medal tally at the Paralympics touched an unprece-
dented 10 on Tuesday .Mariyappan cleared 1.86m while the American Ronaldo in
SINGHRAJ WINS gold winner Sam Grewe succeeded in soaring above 1.88m in his third
attempt. Kumar took the bronze with an effort of 1.83. The third Indi-
Manchester United
BRONZE an in fray Varun Singh Bhati ended sevent.

I ndia's Singhraj held his nerve in a top-

sy-turvy final round to win a bronze
medal in men's P1 -Men's 10m Air Pistol
SH1 shooting at the Paralympic Games
in Tokyo on Tuesday. Compatriot Man-
ish Narwal, who had topped the qualify-
ing field, ended seventh, getting elimi-
nated with two poor rounds. Singhraj
ended with a score of 216.8 in the final to
finish behind Chinese duo Yang Chao
and Huang Xing. This was India's sec-
ond medal at the Asaka Shooting Range
the eighth overall.
Pace great Steyn retires
R esembling a work of art when in full flight with
his wicked swing and toe-crushing yorkers, all-
time pace great Dale Steyn on Tuesday announced re-
tirement from cricket with an impeccable record and
a legacy to boot. The 38-year-old South African made
the announcement on Twitter, ending a 17-year ca-
reer, which saw him play in 93 Tests, 125 ODIs and 47
T20Is and pick 439, 196 and 64 wickets respectively for the Proteas.
J uventus, on Tuesday, officially
bid farewell to Cristiano
Ronaldo as the Serie A club con-
firmed a EUR23 million deal with
Manchester United for the trans-
fer of the Portuguese striker.
Manchester United will pay a fee
of EUR15m over the course of five
years to seal the Portugal star's re-
turn to the Premier League.
Ronaldo became the first player in
Juventus history to score at least
100 goals in all competitions in his
first three seasons

Blurr shoot over

Leave for The makers of Taapsee Pannu-
starrer Blurr have finished shooting
‘Money Heist’ the film in Nainital, Uttarakhand.
Directed by Ajay Bahl, the psycho-

S uch is the fan frenzy over the fi-

nal season of the global hit se-
ries Money Heist that a Jaipur-
logical thriller is about a girl who’s
caught up in unavoidable circum-
stances. Opening up about his expe-
based private firm has announced a rience of helming Blurr, Ajay said,
‘Netflix and Chill holiday’ for all its “Shooting at real locations like
employees to watch the show the day Nainital Lake, Mall Road and other
it starts streaming. The fifth and fi- tourist spots can be difficult, espe-
nal season of the popular Spanish cially with the overcrowding. We’d
series will be divided into two parts shoot late at night right into the wee
of five episodes each. hours of the morning.”

ASiAn boxing chAmP
India end up with 39 medals
P reeti Dahiya and three oth-
er youth women boxers
emerged champions on the fi-
nal day as the Indian contin-
gent concluded their success-
ful campaign at the 2021 ASBC
Asian Youth and Junior Box-
ing Championships with 39
medals, including 14 gold, in
Dubai. India had already won
19 medals, including eight
gold, five silver and six bronze
medals, in the junior event
played earlier. The youth box-
ers added 20 more medals (six
gold, nine silver and five
bronze) to India's tally at the
prestigious continental event.
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