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  1. Around 500 people participate in candlelight vigil and peaceful protest over the rape and murder of a doctor, on August 18, 2024 in Gurugram, India

  2. Protests in Thane, Maharashtra

  3. The resident doctors hold placards while chanting slogans during a protest against the brutal rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor from Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital

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  7. An Indian girl rides a bicycle during sunset in Joypur village, on the outskirts of Agartala, the capital of northeastern state of Tripura on December 30, 2017. /

  8. A woman holds up a sign saying "no safety, no duty"

  9. An Indian security personnel stands guard along a street during India's Independence Day in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on August 15, 2024. Photo Getty Images

  10. Doctors hold a poster to protest the rape and murder of a young medic from Kolkata, at the Government General Hospital in Vijayawada on August 14, 2024. Indian doctors in government hospitals across several states halted elective services "indefinitely" on August 12, to protest the rape and murder of a young medic. (Photo by Idrees MOHAMMED / AFP) (Photo by IDREES MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images)

  11. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah

  12. Split screen of protest and protest participant

  13. A woman is holding a placard during a protest condemning the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a hospital in Kolkata, in New Delhi, India, on August 14, 2024 (Photo by Kabir Jhangiani/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

  14. Women protesting, holding flags and candles

  15. Students, citizens, junior doctors, postgraduate trainee doctors, doctors, house staff, interns, and other medical professionals are holding placards and shouting slogans in a protest march named 'The Night is also ours' on the 78th Independence Day against the rape and murder of a PGT woman doctor at Government-run R G Kar Medical College & Hospital, in Kolkata, India, on August 15, 2024.

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  17. The Chenab bridge in Jammu and Kashmir

  18. A junior doctor is holding placards protesting inside a government hospital, demanding justice for the victim and safety in hospital premises, and exemplary punishment for those involved in the sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor at state-run RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, India, on August 11, 2024

  19. Chairperson of Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Madhabi Puri Buch gestures with her hands as she speaks at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) in Mumbai

  20. Hand holding makhana which look like large peppercorns

  21. An Irani cafe in Mumbai

  22. A herd of wild Asian elephants in Thakurkuchi village, on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, on 1 April 2024.

  23. Bronze medallist Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran of India celebrates on the podium.