The Taliban captured two major Afghan cities, Kandahar and Herat, the country's second and third-largest after Kabul, and strategic provincial capital.
The Indonesian Army ended the "virginity tests" on female cadets which the World Health Organization determined has "no scientific merit or clinical indication" involves someone placing their fingers into a cadet's vagina to supposedly assess whether they have had sex.
The Assam Assembly recently passed the Cattle Preservation Bill, 2021 aimed at regulating slaughter, consumption and transportation of cattle in the state.
Minister for Environment released the population estimation protocol to be adopted in the exercise to be taken up for the All India elephant and tiger population estimation in 2022.
August 13 is being celebrated as the death anniversary of Ahilyabai Holkar. She was the hereditary noble Sardar of the Maratha Empire. She tried to protect her land from plundering invaders. She led armies into battle.
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