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1. Two suicide bombers and gunmen attack crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. The attacks kill at least 60 Afghans and 13 US troops, Afghan and US officials say. 2. US President Joe Biden pledges to hunt down the perpetrators of the suicide bombings that killed the American troops in Kabul and says the United States will not be deterred from its mission to evacuate thousands of civilians from Afghanistan. 3. India strongly condemns the deadly bomb explosions near the Kabul airport and says the attacks reinforce the need for the world to stand unitedly against terrorism. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says 'I utterly condemn the barbaric terrorist attack in Kabul in which Afghans and members of the US military lost their lives. The threat of terrorist attack is one of the constraints we've been operating under, but our evacuation effort continues with over 12,000 extracted so far.' Germany has completed its military evacuation operation from Kabul airport, says a security source. 4. India crosses 40,000 Covid-19 cases once again in two weeks. The Centre asks Kerala and Maharashtra, both having high number of Covid cases, to intensify efforts to check the spread of the virus through interventions like contact tracing and vaccination. 5. Amid the ongoing rift in Chhattisgarh Congress for a change in leadership, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel to again meet Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the national capital today. 6. Supreme Court will switch to hybrid hearings (both physical and virtual) from September 1 amid a dip in the COVID-19 cases in the country. As Mondays and Fridays are admission days, the hearing will be virtual, sources say, adding, on rest of the days, the hearing will be both physical and virtual.