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Afghan Special Forces, the elite fighters are on various frontlines across the country. I tagged along with these young men for some missions. Here is what happened in Kandahar today while they were on a rescue mission after spending the whole night on a combat mission. The objective was to extract a wounded policeman trapped by Taliban insurgents on the outskirts of Kandahar city for the last 18 hours. The particular district is contested between the government and the Taliban.

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Latest dispatch from the foothills of the Himalayas in India’s Uttarakhand.
We met Pramila Devi, the day she tested positive for COVID19. The doctor advised her husband to take her to a bigger hospital, but the cost was a deterrent. The couple returned home. @Reuters We spent the next day with the family as Devi laid on bed gasping for breath in their small house. Finally, the family could manage a jeep to take her to the local dispensary. Her two young children watched, as their father got their mother ready.

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A couple of days back @AlasdairPal and I shadowed a young doctor during his 27-hour workday as he ran around his hospital treating #COVID19 patients. @Reuters reuters.com/world/asia-pac… "Who to be saved, who not to be saved should be decided by God," Rohan Aggarwal, 26, says. "We are not made for that – we are just humans. But at this point in time, we are being made to do this."

Activists from United Hindu Front burn an effigy depicting climate change activist @GretaThunberg to protest against the celebrities for commenting in support of protesting farmers, in New Delhi, India. #farmersprotest #GretaThunberg .@rihanna too

I took a long road trip from Delhi to #Bihar to checkout India's war against #COVID19 beyond its big metros.
@Reuters special report about a PPE wearing psychiatrist, his COVID19 hospital for 10 million people & #India's fragile health care system.
widerimage.reuters.com/story/pandemic… Sah, a COVID19 patient was lying with regular patients in an emergency ward as there were no beds in the ICU. Next day the rusted oxygen trolley broke as he was being shifted. Sah's wife and son fed him everyday in ICU. His son tested +ve after a week.