An underground rescue in Thane and Jet Airways drowns: India this week

From an underground rescue mission, Jet Airways' departure and Gomathi Marimuthu to Lok Sabha Polls; a roundup of top photos from across the country.

Updated on: Apr 28, 2019 2:09 PM IST

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A person with a mental illness who crawled into an underground sewage line underground is rescued by Fire brigade and RDMC, in Thane, Maharashtra. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

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Patches left by illegal sand mining activity seen along the banks of Chambal river in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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Laxman Dombare stands next to cracks on a wall that appeared after an earthquake in Dahanu, Palghar district, Maharashtra. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

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Indian election officials with polling materials travel on a country boat to reach a polling centre located in a remote river island, west of Guwahati, Assam. (Anupam Nath / AP)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at supporters during his roadshow, a day ahead of filing his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls, in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. (Manvender Vashist / PTI)

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Tibetans in exile mark the birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choeki Nyimi, an important religious leader second only to the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, and who has been abducted by Chinese authorities and held as a political prisoner, in Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh. (Ashwini Bhatia / AP)

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An employee of Jet Airways is consoled by her colleagues during a protest demanding to “save Jet Airways” in New Delhi. (Adnan Abidi / REUTERS)

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A picture of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, the son of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister N.D.Tiwari is seen at his residence in Delhi. A week after his death, Apoorva Shukla Tiwari his wife was arrested by the police from their south Delhi home. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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An all religion condolence meet was organized at Bishops school, for Sri Lanka bomb blast victims in Pune, Maharashtra. (Ravindra Joshi / HT Photo)

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Labourers pluck ripe tomatoes in the 54 acre farm in Gurugram’s Makdola village next to AIIMS hospital in Haryana. Women in the age group of 20-50 years are currently employed at the farm from neighbouring villages of Iqbalpur and Kaliawas. (Parveen Kumar / HT Photo)

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Animal lover Hitesh Karanjavkar rescues a 5ft Vine Snake from Anapurna Nagar in Kalyan, Maharashtra. (Rishikesh Choudhary / HT Photo)

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A boy leaps into the air, performing stunts at Marine Drive in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Ragul Krishnan / HT Photo)

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A member of Kashmir’s Lakes and Waterways Authority collects weeds from Dal Lake during rainfall in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Tauseef Mustafa / AFP)

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(L-R) China’s Wang Chunyu, India’s Gomathi Marimuthu, and Kazakhstan’s Margarita Mukasheva display their silver, gold and bronze medals respectively for the women’s 800-meters race at the Asian Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. (PTI / AP)

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Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh share a moment at the Mumbai Indian’s dugout during their match against Chennai Super Kings at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (R Senthil Kumar / PTI)

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An Indian paramilitary soldier stands on a paddy field guarding outside a polling station during the third phase of India’s general elections, at Verinag, Jammu and Kashmir. (Mukhtar Khan / AP)

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A policeman falls through barricades while being chased by a bull, which had entered the helipad prepared near the venue of an election campaign rally in support of Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav, aheah of Lok Sabha polls in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh. (PTI)

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A police personnel helps an elderly person by pushing her wheel chair over a slope during voting in Pune, Maharashtra. (Shankar Narayan / HT photo)

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As summers arrive in Dindori, Maharashtra women can be seen in long queues to fill water for their families. The sole hand pump in Ghanichamta area is used by around 500 families. (Pramod Thakur / HT Photo)

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DPCC President Sheila Dikshit flashes the victory sign as she leaves after filing her nomination papers from North East Delhi parliamentary seat, in New Delhi. (Manvender Vashist / PTI)