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1. Around 150 Indian citizens picked up by the Taliban this morning have been released and are now inside Kabul airport, they will be airlifted out of war-torn Afghanistan soon. 2. Three Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists have been killed by security forces after a brief shootout in the forests of Jammu and Kashmir's Tral, police says Saturday. 3. A C-17 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force is on standby to fly to Kabul and bring home the Indian nationals who are stuck. 4. Chaotic scenes continue at Kabul airport as military personnel contains large crowds of would-be evacuees seeking away a way out of Afghanistan. 5. President Joe Biden seeks to reassure the United States on the dramatic evacuation from Afghanistan, promising no Americans would be abandoned in one of the 'most difficult' airlifts in history. 6. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday held talks with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani on the situation in Afghanistan as he made a stopover in Doha on his way back from the US. 7. India's Covid chart continues to show improvement on Saturday, with the country recording 34,457 cases, a marginal drop from yesterday. About 375 deaths are recorded during the period, according to the Health Ministry.