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Several netizens have latched on to #ISIAgentRehanSiddiqi on Twitter to express their displeasure and anger over an invite, reportedly received by Mika Singh to perform at a concert in Houston. The organiser Rehan Siddiqi is believed to be an ISI agent. The singer has already gotten in trouble for performing at an event in Pakistan earlier this month.

Chandrayaan-2 successfully achieved a major milestone as the spacecraft entered the Moon's orbit this morning. Nearly a month after taking oath as Karnataka chief minister, following the collapse of the Congress-JD(S) coalition, BS Yediyurappa formed his Cabinet with 17 ministers. Former Union minister P Chidambaram who faces arrest in the INX media case failed to gain an audience in the Supreme Court after the Delhi HC dismissed his anticipatory bail plea. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds for the top headlines from across the country.

 

Not many people in the country seem to realise or recall the events of those days when Jihadist forces, with the active connivance of Pakistan, and also sly support from the locals, went about eliminating the Kashmiri Pandits from the state.

 

A Pakistani commando, who was behind the capture of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman when his IAF jet crashed in Pakistani territory in February this year, had reportedly been killed in LoC firing by Indian armed forces

US President Donald Trump asked Pakistan PM Imran Khan to ‘moderate rhetoric’ with India in a telephonic conversation. The call to Khan was made just after a conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on "extreme rhetoric and incitement to anti-India violence" by leaders of Pakistan
 

The Pakistan Foreign Office said that director general (South Asia and SAARC) Mohammad Faisal condemned ceasefire violations on August 18 in Hot Spring and Chirikot Sectors.

Poonam Joshi, an Indian journalist was seen in a video trying to capture the Indian flag from the hands of Pakistan and pro-Khalistan supporters during a protest outside the High Commission of India in London

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are limping back to normalcy after the abrogation of Article 370 that granted them special status. Union minister Jitendra Singh has already called for the integration of Pakistan occupied Kashmir with India

Asserting that dialogue with Pakistan is not possible till it stops “aiding and abetting terrorism”, Union defence minister Rajnath Singh said on August 18 that if talks are held with Pakistan they will be only on Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
 

A video of BJP leader Shazia Ilmi confronting Pakistani protesters on the streets of Seoul has surfaced. The protesters were shouting anti-India slogans and anti-Modi slogans as the Indian government abrogated the long-standing Articles. 

An Indian Army soldier lost his life after Pakistan violated ceasefire by resorting to mortar shelling along the Line of Control (LoC)

The phone conversation between Trump and Khan took place before the close-door-consultation of the 15 members of the UN Security Council in New York. The White House readout of the call was issued after the meeting concluded at the UN headquarters in New York.

A UN diplomat told that China had asked for closed consultations on the Security Council agenda item 'India Pakistan Question', to discuss India revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan too wrote a letter on the issue to the world body.  

The religious procession of Sikhs from Pakistan reached India on Thursday (August 15). They will visit Gurudwaras in 17 states in India and culminate their procession at Sultanpur Lodhi, where Guru Nanak had spent 14 years

Thar Link Express runs on the Indian side between Bhagat Ki Kothi railway station in Jodhpur to Munabao. Railway spokesperson said that 45 people had booked tickets for this train to go to Pakistan