Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal, where a junior doctor was raped and murdered earlier this month, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (Aug 22), urging him to enact stricter laws on sexual assault. In other news, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that Ukraine attempted to attack the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, located in the Russian region near the border. This area experienced an incursion by Ukraine over two weeks ago.

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Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal state, where a junior doctor was raped and murdered earlier this month, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (Aug 22), urging him to enact stricter laws on sexual assault. The case is now being investigated by India’s premier agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), following an order by the Calcutta High Court. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (August 22) that Ukraine attempted to attack the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, located in the Russian region near the border. This area experienced an incursion by Kyiv over two weeks ago.

Bodies of all men missing after the Bayesian superyacht sank off the coast of Italy’s Sicily have been found, including UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, a coastguard official told news agency AFP on Thursday (Aug 22). 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday (Aug 22) in Warsaw that New Delhi was willing to offer any help to end the Ukraine conflict in consultation with friendly nations. He also reiterated that war can’t be solution to any conflict and that diplomacy was the only way forward.

Delhi Police busted an al-Qaeda-linked terror network and detained 14 people from the states of Jharkhand, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, PTI reported on Thursday (August 22).

Ahead of the United States presidential election, American authorities are investigating some US citizens who had worked with or contributed to Russian state media, amid fears that Moscow’s intelligence agencies are trying to muddy the waters of American politics through propaganda campaigns.

Ten years after Hollywood Director Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption (1994) redefined the meaning of ‘hope’ for the world — “hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies” — a 43-year-old Barack Obama turned up to sell the ‘politics of hope’ at 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston while endorsing John Kerry on the presidential ticket that year.

Amid ongoing controversy between Hindenburg Research and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chief Madhabi Puri Buch, the latter’s ties with US equity major Blackstone have also come under greater scrutiny. Experts are calling for an investigation over Buch’s alleged conflict of interest in all Blackstone-related matters as SEBI chairperson.

Two venues in London, one each in Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham, will host the five Tests between England and India next summer, the BCCI confirmed in a social media post. Team India will begin their tour with the first Test at Headingley starting June 20, while Edgbaston, Lord’s, Old Trafford and the Oval will host the remaining four Tests, respectively.

Lionsgate pulled up its latest trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis. The Megalopolis trailer was problematic and raised a lot of doubts about the authenticity of the production.