1.PM Narendra Modi begins a historic visit to Kyiv under the shadow of war to hold talks with the Ukrainian President.

 2.Sebi has barred industrialist Anil Ambani and 24 others from the securities market for five years on charges of diversion of funds from Reliance Home Finance Limited (RHFL), official sources said, Friday.

3.Over one crore women in the state, aged between 21 and 60, will receive `10,000 annually in two instalments for five years beginning 2024-25 fiscal under Subhadra Yojana, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi told the Assembly while announcing the scheme’s standard operating procedure (SOP), Friday.

4.The Calcutta High Court Friday ordered the transfer of the probe into the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital during the tenure of its former principal Sandip Ghosh from a state-constituted SIT to the CBI.

5.Washington, Doctors have begun trialling the world’s first mRNA lung cancer vaccine in patients, as experts hailed its ‘groundbreaking’ potential to save thousands of lives.

6.A 14-yearold girl was allegedly gangraped by three persons in Assam’s Nagaon district, triggering massive protests by people on the streets, sources said, Friday. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma promised that stern action would be taken against the perpetrator.

7.Odisha had an unemployment rate of 3.9 per cent, which was higher than the national average of 3.2 per cent, Skill Development and Technical Education Minister Sampad Chandra Swain told the assembly Friday.

8.The Odisha state government will spend Rs7,830.08 crore every year on social security pensions to widows, senior citizens and persons with disabilities, Minister Nityananda Gond informed the Assembly Friday.

9. Empty iron chests and almirahs were shifted from the Ratna Bhandar (treasury) of Lord Jagannath temple in Puri to a room near Niladri Vihar museum located on the premises of the 12th-century shrine.

10.The Ministry of Civil Aviation has shifted the office of Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety from Lucknow to New Delhi.

11.The Supreme Court Friday deferred till September 5 hearing on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s pleas seeking bail and challenging the arrest by the CBI in the alleged excise policy scam.

12.Kamala Harris used her forceful presidential acceptance speech to present herself as a leader who could unite the country to chart a “new way forward” and warned Americans of “extremely serious” consequences of putting her Republican rival Donald Trump back in the White House.

13.India’s silver imports are on course to nearly double this year due to rising demand from solar panel and electronics makers, and as investors bet the metal will give better returns than gold, leading importers said Friday.

14.The numbers will favour Jay Shah to mount the saddle as the next ICC chairman but there is no clarity if he decides to join the world governing body, who will replace him as BCCI secretary.

15.Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo continues to extend the boundaries of social reach, as his new YouTube channel ‘UR – Cristiano’ smashed several records within just one day of being launched.