First, Indian Express’ Associate Editor Shubhajit Roy joins us on a call from Kabul to talk about the Taliban taking over the capital, and how it managed to do so.

Next, Indian Express’ Avishek Dastidar talks about the government’s new vehicle scrapping policy, what it aims to do, and how it is expected to help the economy (08:25).

And in the end, highlights from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech (14:36).