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1. Weeks after clamping a lid on a crisis in Punjab, the Congress is firefighting in Chhattisgarh, where Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's minister TS Singh Deo lays claim to the top post, demanding rotational chief ministership. Both Bhupesh Baghel and Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo are meeting with Rahul Gandhi in Delhi as the infighting threatens to boil over. 2. Workers of Maharashtra's ruling Shiv Sena and the opposition BJP clashes on the streets in Mumbai on Tuesday in a snowballing controversy over Union Minister Narayan Rane's comment on slapping Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray for his "ignorance of the year of India's Independence". Narayan Rane faces an arrest warrant after a case filed by Sena workers. 3. Three copies of Guru Granth Sahib were flown to India from Kabul along with Indian citizens and 46 Afghan nationals as part of the government's evacuation efforts from Afghanistan. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri receives the copies of the Sikh holy scripture at the Delhi airport on Tuesday morning. 4. An Air India flight carrying 78 passengers, including 25 Indian citizens arrives New Delhi from Tajikistan's Dushanbe in a safe evacuation from Afghanistan. 5. The Taliban were in position near the Panjshir valley and had retaken three districts in northern Afghanistan that fell to local militia groups last week, a spokesman says on Monday, though there were no confirmed reports of further fighting. 6. India adds 25,467 new COVID-19 cases, while the active cases declines to 3,19,551, comprising 0.98 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. 7. Maharashtra records 27 new cases of the Delta Plus COVID-19 variant on Monday, taking the total number of Delta Plus cases in the state to 103, according to the state health department. 8. Tokyo Paralympic 2020 begins today. 54 Indian athletes will participate from today till the 5th of September.