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.
The Taliban captured two major Afghan cities, Kandahar and Herat, the country's second and third-largest after Kabul, and strategic provincial capital.
India's premier space agency Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is set to launch a Bhutanese satellite in December this year. The development of the INS-2B satellite of Bhutan is being underway by four Bhutanese engineers who are being trained by ISRO.
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