A major attack was averted ahead of the Independence Day celebrations on August 15 as India's paramilitary Border Security Force along with the army and local police on Monday busted a terrorist hideout in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, while two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists were arrested from Kishtwar. India's Olympics contingent, including first athletics gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, and bronze medalists wrestler Bajrang Punia and boxer Lovlina Burgohain on Monday received a grand welcome back home as they landed in New Delhi after their noteworthy performances in the Tokyo Olympics. India bagged a total of seven medals this time, their biggest Games haul ever. Going into the final day of the competition on Saturday, the nation of 1.3 billion erupted in joy after 23-year-old Neeraj Chopra won the men's javelin at the Tokyo Games to secure India's first ever Olympic athletics gold post-independence. At a time when China is expeditiously building its capability to operate fighters near eastern Ladakh, India is also looking to expand its capability to operate fixed-wing aircraft from facilities near the border with China. Afghan commandoes launched a counter-attack on Monday to try to beat back Taliban fighters who overran the northern city of Kunduz a day earlier, with residents fleeing the conflict describing the almost constant sound of gunfire and explosions. Health experts in Sri Lanka have called for the re-imposition of travel restrictions as hospitals and allied medical facilities have reached a breaking point in the island nation amid the rapid transmission of the deadly Delta variant of Covid-19. The situation is so grave that there are three Covid-linked deaths in the country every hour, the vice-president of the Sri Lanka Medical Association said. Residents of a remote village in Manich in Gilgit Baltistan have accused the Pakistani authorities of turning a blind eye towards the infrastructural development and cleaning of a filthy pond in their area, which has continued to afflict their lives. Fifty-one Pakistani Hindu nationals who had arrived in India for a holy dip in the Ganges River want to return to their homes as they have been stuck in India due to Covid-19 induced lockdown since last year. People in Nepal's Bhaktapur recently burnt effigies of a mythical demon to celebrate 'Gathemangal' festival, which is held during the monsoon month of 'Shravan', according to the Hindu calendar.
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