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India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will visit Moscow on August 21 to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and discuss bilateral and international cooperation. The visit follows National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s trip to Russia and comes as US President Donald Trump imposes 50 percent tariffs on Indian imports of Russian oil, according to Firstpost.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit India later this year, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the SCO Summit in China, which Putin is also likely to attend. Analysts caution that while India could seek alternatives to the US market through Russia and China, such arrangements may favor China, especially as India-China ties remain tense over trade restrictions and the Ladakh standoff.

The Home Ministry of India has revised rules for Overseas Citizens of India (OCI), allowing cancellation of registration for those convicted of serious crimes, including abroad if the act is recognized under Indian law. OCI status can be revoked for sentences of two years or more, or charges carrying seven-year jail terms, Firstpost reported.

OCI cards grant lifelong, multiple-entry travel and certain economic and educational benefits but no voting rights. The move, under the Citizenship Act, 1955, aims to curb criminal or anti-national activities among cardholders.

Cancer survival in England and Wales has doubled over the past 50 years, with half of patients now living at least 10 years. Melanoma sees 10-year survival above 90 percent, and breast cancer has risen from 42 percent to over 76 percent since 1971, according to BBC.

Yet progress is slow for hard-to-detect cancers. Pancreatic, oesophagus, stomach, and lung cancers all have 10-year survival below 20 percent, with pancreatic under 5 percent.

Experts attribute improvements to earlier detection and better treatments, while the government plans a new strategy to tackle cancers with the poorest outcomes, BBC reported.

The Home Office in England will deploy 10 new live facial recognition vans across seven police forces to help track suspects in serious crimes. The vehicles, shared between Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley and Hampshire, will scan faces in public and match them against a police watchlist, according to BBC.

Ministers say the system has helped make hundreds of arrests in London, but critics warn it risks enabling mass surveillance without proper legal safeguards. A public consultation is under way to set rules for its use, while the government insists it will be applied proportionately and without bias.