The Indian government has said it is watching the events in Afghanistan very closely. The immediate priority is safety and return of Indian nationals still stuck in Afghanistan. When asked whether India had established communication with the Taliban, foreign minister S Jaishankar said that it was still early days, as Taliban representatives had just arrived in Kabul.

The Taliban has halted imports and exports with India and has also sealed Afghanistan's borders. But there's reason to hope as a batch of grapes just got cleared for import by Afghan customs.

Blue Origin has said its lawsuit, filed in the US Court of Federal Claims last week, was "an attempt to remedy the flaws in the acquisition process found in NASA's Human Landing System." A US judge has set an October 14 hearing on the case. NASA said in a statement it paused work with SpaceX on the human landing system through November 1.

Reducing unnecessary business travel, cutting commute times of employees, improving end of life treatment for old products are some key initiatives that companies can take to reduce Scope 3 emissions.