A string of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan have left at least 12 people dead: officials

There was no prompt remark on any of the assaults from the Taliban, who have ventured up their ambushes crosswise over Afghanistan as of late.



A string of Taliban assaults in western and eastern Afghanistan have left no less than 12 individuals dead, including four ladies who passed on in the crossfire amid a shootout amongst guerillas and the military, Afghan authorities said on Tuesday.

In western Farah region, the Taliban assaulted a military checkpoint, murdering four troops and injuring six, as per Mohammad Naser Mehri, the commonplace's representative.

The assault in Bala Buluk locale began late on Monday night and kept going until around day break on Tuesday. Mr. Mehri said the Afghan aviation based armed forces was brought in and airstrikes later murdered 19 Taliban warriors and injured 30.

"The Taliban were pushed back and the circumstance is under control now," he included.

In eastern Logar territory, four ladies were slaughtered and four kids were injured in the crossfire amid a shootout amongst extremists and the military.

The battling occurred close Puli Alim, the commonplace capital, on Monday evening, said Hasibullah Stanikzai, a commonplace chamber part. He included that "an examination is in progress to figure out which side caused the regular citizen setbacks."

Likewise on Monday night, the Taliban assaulted a police checkpoint in eastern Ghazni region, killing four policemen and injuring five, said Arif Noori, representative for the common senator. He said the fight in Jaghatu region went on for three hours.

There was no quick remark on any of the assaults from the Taliban, who have ventured up their ambushes crosswise over Afghanistan as of late.

Independently, the Islamic State aggregate asserted obligation on Tuesday for an assault that killed an Afghan trooper and injured three troops and a regular citizen on Sunday in the eastern city of Jalalabad, the commonplace capital of Nangarhar.

Both the Taliban and the nearby IS offshoot consistently target Afghan security powers. The IS subsidiary has additionally done a few assaults focusing on the nation's Shia minority. On Sunday, IS guaranteed a suicide assault two days sooner on a mosque in the city of Gardez, south of Kabul. The assault murdered no less than 29 individuals and injured another 81.

Cab hailing firm Ola to launch services in U.K.

Ola has acquired licenses to start activities in South Wales in September, and also Greater Manchester



Indian ride-hailing firm Ola said on Tuesday it intends to dispatch benefits in the United Kingdom this year, months after it extended its activities in Australia, in a progressing turf war with equal Uber Technologies.

Ola, upheld by Japan's Softbank Group, has acquired licenses to start activities in South Wales in September, and in addition Greater Manchester, and plans to extend nation wide before the year's over, it said in an announcement.

The ride-hailing firm will offer private vehicles for employ and additionally the well known dark taxis on its stage and will include more transportation choices going ahead, the organization said.

Govt appoints 2 members to CBDT after five months of positions lying vacant

Relatively following five months of opportunities in the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the legislature on Monday named two individuals, Aditya Vikram, IRS (IT) 1981 clump and Pramod Chandra Mody, IRS (IT) 1982 cluster, as individuals in the pinnacle body.



According to the notice issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Mr. Vikram has been named to fill in an opening that emerged on February 1, 2018, while Mr. Mody's arrangement made to fill in an opening happened on March 1, 2018.

Their names were cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and consequently the DoPT issued their arrangement warning.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the pinnacle strategy influencing body for money to assess, saw three of its individuals superannuating amongst January and June this year.

After two arrangements on Monday, there is as yet one opening on the board while the staying three individuals are booked to resign in September.

The present Chairman Sushil Chandra, subsequent to getting a second augmentation, will be in office until May 31, 2019.

Former The Hindu BusinessLine journalist, Mony K. Mathew, passes away

Senior money related writer Mony K. Mathew, who resigned as senior associate editorial manager at The Hindu BusinessLine, kicked the bucket of a heart assault here early Tuesday morning. He was 66.



Mr. Mathew began his vocation as a student columnist at The Indian Express in Mumbai in the late 1970s and later moved to Hyderabad as senior sub-editorial manager at the Express. He used to compose on culture, film and games before deciding on money related reporting and moving to The Financial Express at Chennai.

He was head of agency and later occupant proofreader of The Financial Express, Chennai.

He joined The Hindu BusinessLine at Thiruvananthapuram in 1995s where he exceeded expectations in providing details regarding open division endeavors, open fund and State spending plans. After a long innings at Thiruvananthapuram, he moved to Kozhikode and resigned from BusinessLine in 2012.

Mr. Mathew is made due by spouse Daisey Mony, who was an aide enlistment center at Calicut University and children Anish K. Mony (programming engineer, Cognizant, Chennai) and Ajith K. Mony (electrical specialist, Daifuku India, Bengaluru) and girl in-law Dr. Shona Raju (KMCT Dental College, Kozhikode).

The burial service will be held at St. Mary's Church, Kohinoor, close to the Thenjippalam grounds of Calicut University, at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

Pakistan’s PM-elect Imran Khan to appear before anti-graft body

Imran Khan, who is set to wind up Pakistan's new leader, is required to show up before the nation's hostile to join body regarding the abuse of government helicopters which caused Rs 2.17 million misfortune to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa exchequer, as indicated by a media report.



The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on August 3 had summoned 65-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) administrator.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khan's PTI has driven the common government since 2013.

The NAB needs to address Mr. Khan as a major aspect of the fundamental test into claims that the cricketer-turned-legislator caused Rs 2.17 million misfortune to the commonplace exchequer by utilizing the commonplace government's helicopter for more than 72 hours.

Formally he was not permitted to utilize the flying machine for individual reason.

Mr. Khan has denied any bad behavior and said the case was politically spurred.

PTI sources said that he will show up before the test group on Tuesday and later additionally direct a gathering of PTI nearby pioneers in Peshawar. He is additionally anticipated that would declare the name of gathering candidate for the post of boss pastor in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Mr. Khan was before summoned on July 18, yet he neglected to show up before the board refering to decisions. His legal counselor had recorded an interest asking for the responsibility guard dog to settle the date for case after the general decisions, "ideally on August 7".

Mr. Khan's PTI has developed as the single la

Amarnath yatra resumes from Jammu, 454 pilgrims leave for cave shrine

The yatra was suspended from Jammu on Sunday, corresponding with the dissident supported two-day strike over the Article 35A issue



The Amarnath yatra continued on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, from Jammu following two days with a new clump of 454 explorers, including 63 ladies, leaving the Bhagwati Nagar base camp for the give in hallowed place in south Kashmir Himalayas.

The yatra was suspended from Jammu on Sunday, agreeing with the rebel supported two-day strike in challenge the legitimate test to the legitimacy of Article 35A, which gives unique rights and benefits to the locals of Jammu and Kashmir.

A police official said the 36th bunch of 454 pioneers, including 391 men and 63 ladies, left the base camp in an escort of 11 vehicles under tight security.

While 230 pioneers, including 30 ladies, have selected to attempt the yatra from the most brief 12-km Baltal course in Ganderbal locale, 194 others, including 33 ladies, are playing out the yatra from the customary 36-km Pahalgam track, the authority stated, including the travelers heading for Pahalgam likewise included 33 sadhus.

The 60-day yearly yatra started from the twin tracks on June 28. It is booked to finish up on August 26, matching with Raksha Bandhan.

Till Monday evening, 2,74,118 pioneers had paid their deference at the 3,880-meter-high heavenly buckle, where the regular ice-shivalingam is shaped.

The early softening of the shivalingam this year has prompted an extensive drop in the quantity of travelers.

Strikes across India: Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill, Seventh Pay Commission and more

A few states the nation over saw strikes by different associations on Tuesday.

The greater part of Kerala, and parts of Andhra Pradhesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu saw an engine vehicle strike called by transport associations to challenge the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill.

Haryana's Roadways representatives went on multi day-long strike in challenge the express government's choice to present 700 private transports in the State, while around 17 lakh Maharashtra government workers started a three-day strike to press for different requests, including usage of the Seventh Pay Commission report.



Here is a breakdown on what is happening across the country:

Across the country engine vehicles strike

The across the country engine vehicles strike was called by transport associations to challenge the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill. The strike, against a few arrangements of the bill and ascend in costs of oil based goods, started at midnight. The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha and is presently anticipating Rajya Sabha's endorsement.

Kerala was the most influenced as open transport kept off the streets in help of the strike. Transports, autorickshaws, taxis, including on the web taxi aggregators, kept off the streets. Contract vehicles and lorries likewise took an interest in the strike.

What's more, the transports of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation remained off the streets, requesting compensation correction, payment of dearness remittance (DA) overdue debts and interval help.

Telangana State Road Transport Corporation transports stopped at transport terminal in Khammam on amid the across the country transport strike on Tuesday, August 8, 2018.

Telangana State Road Transport Corporation transports stopped at transport terminal in Khammam on amid the across the country transport strike on Tuesday, August 8, 2018. | Photo Credit: G. N. Rao

Parts of AP, Telangana and Tamil Nadu likewise enrolled help for the strike. Telangana State Road Transport Corporation transport remains in Khammam wore a left look on Tuesday morning. CPI(M) State Secretary Thammineni Veerabhadram, CPI State Secretary Chada Venkata Reddy, CPI (ML-New Democracy) State collaborator secretary Potu Ranga Rao and other Left gathering pioneers tended to a question and answer session with respect to the strike.

An area of transport laborers in Vijayawada took an interest in the strike by taking out revives yet transport administrations, including those kept running by State run AP Road Transport Corporation, were not influenced.

In Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram and Udhagamandalam, drivers of business vehicles took an interest in the strike by organizing a showing. In Chennai, drivers related with the All Autorickshaw Unions Federation were to remain off the streets, as indicated by a report by The Hindu on Monday. Upon the arrival of the strike, cars were seen handling. Be that as it may, school vans and automobiles remained off the streets, while auto drivers in North Chennai declined to utilize.

The strike appeared to have practically zero effect in Karnataka, as transports, taxis and cars utilized obviously.

Three-day strike in Maharashtra

Around 17 lakh representatives of the Maharashtra government started a three-day strike to press for different requests, including execution of the Seventh Pay Commission report.

Basic administrations in different divisions, including government healing facilities, are probably going to be influenced as class 3 and 4 government representatives have joined the strike, Maharashtra Rajya Sarkari Karmachari Madhyavarti Sanghatna general secretary Avinash Daund asserted.

He blamed the state government for paying a negligible "lip-benefit" to their long-pending requests. "Around 17 lakh government workers from different divisions, including zilla parishads, educators and state-run enterprises, will participate in the three-day strike," said Milind Sardeshmukh, leader of the association which has required the dissent.

The abandoned managerial home office, Konkan Bhavan, in Navi Mumbai amid the on-going three-day strike in Maharashtra on Tuesday, August 7, 2018.

The abandoned managerial home office, Konkan Bhavan, in Navi Mumbai amid the on-going three-day strike in Maharashtra on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. | Photo Credit: Yogesh Mhatre.

The administration workers are yet to get back payments collected to them since the usage of the Sixth Pay Commission by the state government, he said.

Other significant requests incorporate execution of a five-day week in all administration workplaces, expanding the retirement age from 58 to 60 and topping off desperately more than 200,000 opening in the State.

Day-long strike in Haryana

Haryana Roadways workers went on multi day-long strike in challenge the State government's choice to present 700 private transports in the State.

About 4,000 transports in Haryana stayed goes dirt road romping, hitting between state and intra-state administrations.

Workers under the pennant of Haryana Roadways Karamchari Joint Action Committee held dissents at a few spots.

They said they would not enable the state government to dispatch 700 private transports in the state as it would prompt privatization of the vehicle division.

They said the administration ought to rather build the quantity of transports under the roadways office.

Police staff were sent at a few transport remains in Haryana to keep any untoward episode in the wake of the day-long strike.

(With contributions from B. Aravind Kumar in Chennai, L. Balachander in Ramanathapuram, M. Sathyamoorthy in Udhagamandalam, G.N. Rao in Khammam, K. Venkateshwarlu in Vijayawada and Anil Kumar Sastry in Mangalore)