From India’s GDP growth of over 20 percent in the first quarter of 2021-22, Nifty touching 17,000 for the first time, the end to US' longest war in Afghanistan with Taliban's return to power and the forecast about the 3rd COVID-19 wave, here are all the developments that made headlines on August 31.

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