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Updated On Sep 24, 2017 07:37 AM IST
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Water logging at Andheri sub-way even after the installation of dewatering pumps by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). (Shashi S Kashyap / HT PHOTO) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Water logging at Andheri sub-way even after the installation of dewatering pumps by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). (Shashi S Kashyap / HT PHOTO)

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Kashmiri Anganwadi workers, government sponsored child and mother care workers, shout slogans against the government during a protest in Srinagar. (Mukhtar Khan / AP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Kashmiri Anganwadi workers, government sponsored child and mother care workers, shout slogans against the government during a protest in Srinagar. (Mukhtar Khan / AP)

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

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Air Marshal Arjan Singh’s mortal remains for cremation at Delhi’s Brar Square in New Delhi, India. (Raj K Raj / HT photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Air Marshal Arjan Singh’s mortal remains for cremation at Delhi’s Brar Square in New Delhi, India. (Raj K Raj / HT photo)

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A devotee takes a dip in the Banganga tank on Sarvpitri Amavasya in Mumbai, India. (Pratik Chorge/HT Photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A devotee takes a dip in the Banganga tank on Sarvpitri Amavasya in Mumbai, India. (Pratik Chorge/HT Photo)

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Students offer prayers during a ceremony to mark International Peace Day in Ahmedabad, India. (Amit Dave / REUTERS) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Students offer prayers during a ceremony to mark International Peace Day in Ahmedabad, India. (Amit Dave / REUTERS)

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Kali Bari in Safdarjang is all set up for the Women empowerment theme this Durga Puja festival in which cricketers, athletes and other women statues will been installed. (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Kali Bari in Safdarjang is all set up for the Women empowerment theme this Durga Puja festival in which cricketers, athletes and other women statues will been installed. (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

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A Rohingya Muslim girl Yasmin Ara stands in front of her shanty at a camp for refugees in Hyderabad . India's government said Monday that it has evidence there are extremists who pose a threat to the country's security among the Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar and settled in many Indian cities. India's Supreme Court was hearing a petition filed on behalf of two Rohingya refugees challenging a government decision to deport the ethnic group from India. (Mahesh Kumar A / AP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A Rohingya Muslim girl Yasmin Ara stands in front of her shanty at a camp for refugees in Hyderabad . India's government said Monday that it has evidence there are extremists who pose a threat to the country's security among the Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar and settled in many Indian cities. India's Supreme Court was hearing a petition filed on behalf of two Rohingya refugees challenging a government decision to deport the ethnic group from India. (Mahesh Kumar A / AP)

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Devotees take a holy dip in the Ganges on the first day of Navratri, a festival of nine days when devotees worship Hindu goddess Durga, in Allahabad, India. (Jitendra Prakash / REUTERS) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Devotees take a holy dip in the Ganges on the first day of Navratri, a festival of nine days when devotees worship Hindu goddess Durga, in Allahabad, India. (Jitendra Prakash / REUTERS)

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A child engulfed in plumes of smoke during a fumigation drive, feigns shelter under an umbrella at Sion in Mumbai. (Kunal Patil / Ht photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A child engulfed in plumes of smoke during a fumigation drive, feigns shelter under an umbrella at Sion in Mumbai. (Kunal Patil / Ht photo)

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An Indian mahout rides an elephant as he collects money from a driver on the National Highway, some 35kms from Dharmanagar in the northeastern state of Tripura . (AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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An Indian mahout rides an elephant as he collects money from a driver on the National Highway, some 35kms from Dharmanagar in the northeastern state of Tripura . (AFP)

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Vehicles drive through waterlogged road at Malad Subway in Mumbai, India. (Pramod Thakur/HT PHOTO) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Vehicles drive through waterlogged road at Malad Subway in Mumbai, India. (Pramod Thakur/HT PHOTO)

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Indian ground staff uncover the pitch ahead of a training session for the forthcoming one day international (ODI) match in the ongoing India-Australia series at the Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata . India and Australia playing five ODIs and three Twenty20 matches during the tour, lasting nearly a month and started from September 17. (Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Indian ground staff uncover the pitch ahead of a training session for the forthcoming one day international (ODI) match in the ongoing India-Australia series at the Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata . India and Australia playing five ODIs and three Twenty20 matches during the tour, lasting nearly a month and started from September 17. (Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP)

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A labourer transporting bricks on a cart at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Jalandhar. Brick kiln workers in India are trapped in a cycle of bonded labour and regularly cheated out of promised wages, Anti-Slavery International said Wednesday, urging the government to safeguard their rights. A new report that surveyed kilns across the northern Punjab state details how rescued workers go back to the kilns again since no record is kept of payments and wages are withheld to lure them back. (SHAMMI MEHRA / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A labourer transporting bricks on a cart at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Jalandhar. Brick kiln workers in India are trapped in a cycle of bonded labour and regularly cheated out of promised wages, Anti-Slavery International said Wednesday, urging the government to safeguard their rights. A new report that surveyed kilns across the northern Punjab state details how rescued workers go back to the kilns again since no record is kept of payments and wages are withheld to lure them back. (SHAMMI MEHRA / AFP)

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A tree fell at Madhav Scindia Marg road in the afternoon, briefly halting the traffic in New Delhi. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A tree fell at Madhav Scindia Marg road in the afternoon, briefly halting the traffic in New Delhi. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

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Indian artists give finishing touches to a 'pandal', a temporary worship place, for the upcoming festival 'Durga Puja', in Kolkata. (Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Indian artists give finishing touches to a 'pandal', a temporary worship place, for the upcoming festival 'Durga Puja', in Kolkata. (Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP)

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Indian National Congress party activists and supporters hold party flags while forming a human chain during a protest against the increase of fuel prices, in New Delhi. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Indian National Congress party activists and supporters hold party flags while forming a human chain during a protest against the increase of fuel prices, in New Delhi. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP)

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Children stand by the door to a house damaged by firing, allegedly from the Pakistan side of the border, near the International Border in Arnia village near, about 47 kilometers (30 miles) from Jammu, India. Schools in the international border area have been closed and residents are moving to safer areas as firing continued in the region. India and Pakistan have a long history of bitter relations over Kashmir. They have fought two of their three wars over the region since they gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947. (Channi Anand / AP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Children stand by the door to a house damaged by firing, allegedly from the Pakistan side of the border, near the International Border in Arnia village near, about 47 kilometers (30 miles) from Jammu, India. Schools in the international border area have been closed and residents are moving to safer areas as firing continued in the region. India and Pakistan have a long history of bitter relations over Kashmir. They have fought two of their three wars over the region since they gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947. (Channi Anand / AP)

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Indian craftsmen make effigies of the Hindu demon-king 'Ravana' at a workshop ahead of the Hindu festival of 'Dussehra', in Amritsar . Held at the end of the Navratri (nine nights) Festival, Dussehra symbolises the victory of good over evil in Hindu mythology. On the night of Dussehra, firecrackers and stuffed effigies of Ravana are set alight in open grounds across the country. (NARINDER NANU / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Indian craftsmen make effigies of the Hindu demon-king 'Ravana' at a workshop ahead of the Hindu festival of 'Dussehra', in Amritsar . Held at the end of the Navratri (nine nights) Festival, Dussehra symbolises the victory of good over evil in Hindu mythology. On the night of Dussehra, firecrackers and stuffed effigies of Ravana are set alight in open grounds across the country. (NARINDER NANU / AFP)

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Indian transgenders look at a performance during a 'Hijra Habba' event with the theme 'All citizens equal - Inclusion', at a shopping mall in New Delhi. (MONEY SHARMA / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Indian transgenders look at a performance during a 'Hijra Habba' event with the theme 'All citizens equal - Inclusion', at a shopping mall in New Delhi. (MONEY SHARMA / AFP)

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More than 300 art college students drawing 'Alpona' street art on the entire stretch of lake Road at South Kolkata. (HT photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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More than 300 art college students drawing 'Alpona' street art on the entire stretch of lake Road at South Kolkata. (HT photo)

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Women row their boats full of lotus leaves in the backwaters of the DalLake in Srinagar. (Waseem Andrabi / hT photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Women row their boats full of lotus leaves in the backwaters of the DalLake in Srinagar. (Waseem Andrabi / hT photo)

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An artisan puts a nose ring as he gives finishing touches on a clay idol of the Hindu Goddess Durga at his workshop in Chennai. (ARUN SANKAR / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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An artisan puts a nose ring as he gives finishing touches on a clay idol of the Hindu Goddess Durga at his workshop in Chennai. (ARUN SANKAR / AFP)

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Indian boxer Venkat Naik (R) with the Bahubali Boxers punches Maratha Yoddhas' Sandeep Singh during a Super Boxing League event in New Delhi. Boxing, badminton, poker, pool -- every sport imaginable is rebranding in India as a ‘super’or ‘pro’ franchise-based competition chasing a slice of an emerging billion-dollar entertainment market dominated by cricket's Indian Premier League. The star-studded Twenty20 tournament has inspired a raft of glitzy new sports leagues seeking to replicate the winning formula that recently landed India's most popular sporting event a bumper $2.55 billion broadcast deal. (Chandan KHANNA / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Indian boxer Venkat Naik (R) with the Bahubali Boxers punches Maratha Yoddhas' Sandeep Singh during a Super Boxing League event in New Delhi. Boxing, badminton, poker, pool -- every sport imaginable is rebranding in India as a ‘super’or ‘pro’ franchise-based competition chasing a slice of an emerging billion-dollar entertainment market dominated by cricket's Indian Premier League. The star-studded Twenty20 tournament has inspired a raft of glitzy new sports leagues seeking to replicate the winning formula that recently landed India's most popular sporting event a bumper $2.55 billion broadcast deal. (Chandan KHANNA / AFP)

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The recent rain and waterlogging has left several parts of the road in bad shape at Ambegaon Pathar in Pune, India. (Rahul Raut / ht photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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The recent rain and waterlogging has left several parts of the road in bad shape at Ambegaon Pathar in Pune, India. (Rahul Raut / ht photo)

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DPCC workers and activists formed a human chain to protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi government for the recently hiked petrol and diesel prices, in New Delhi, India. (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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DPCC workers and activists formed a human chain to protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi government for the recently hiked petrol and diesel prices, in New Delhi, India. (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

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Rain and thundershowers lashed parts of Delhi-NCR on Friday morning bringing some respite from the hot and muggy weather in New Delhi, India. (Ravi Choudhary/HT PHOTO) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Rain and thundershowers lashed parts of Delhi-NCR on Friday morning bringing some respite from the hot and muggy weather in New Delhi, India. (Ravi Choudhary/HT PHOTO)

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Shilpa Negi, Miss Himalaya 2017, Neha Chaudhary, Miss Glory of India 2017 and foreigner tourists hold placard in Dharamsala on Tuesday to show their support towards crime against women and child abuse. (Shyam Sharma / HT photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Shilpa Negi, Miss Himalaya 2017, Neha Chaudhary, Miss Glory of India 2017 and foreigner tourists hold placard in Dharamsala on Tuesday to show their support towards crime against women and child abuse. (Shyam Sharma / HT photo)

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