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1. Mumbai's arterial suburban train network will be open from August 15 to fully vaccinated people 14 days after their second jab, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announces, easing more COVID-19 curbs but imploring people not to let their guard down. We are providing some relaxations now but if cases go up, we will have to resort to lockdown again. So I appeal to you to not invite another wave of Covid: Mr Thackeray says to the state. 2. A total of 45 cases of Delta plus variant of COVID-19 have been reported in Maharashtra till August 8, the state health department informs. Jalgaon district recorded the highest number of cases at 13, followed by Ratnagiri district with 11 cases, Mumbai with 6 cases, Thane with 5 cases and Pune with 3 cases. 3. With just a week to go before parliament's Monsoon Session ends, Trinamool Congress's Derek O'Brien demands that Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the proceedings and listen to the demands of the opposition. 4. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to visit Jammu and Kashmir today. 5. The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the 'highest in police stations', Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana says at a function, expressing concern about custodial torture. Calling human rights and dignity 'sacrosanct', he says, 'custodial torture and other police atrocities are problems which still prevail in our society'. 6. An upcoming UN report on climate change gives the international community its clearest ever warning about the dangers of accelerating climate change, Britain's COP26 President Alok Sharma says. 7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi to chair a high-level open debate on 'Enhancing Maritime Security - A Case for International Cooperation' today via video conferencing.