Autumn’s doing in Delhi and a prison riot in Srinagar: India this week

From a brief Autumnal spell in Delhi befor temperatures instensify to a rumor leading to rioteering in Srinagar's central jail ; a roundup of top photos from across the country

Updated on: Apr 07, 2019 6:20 PM IST

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A pedestrian walks past autumn’s doing at Janpath in New Delhi. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

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ISRO’s PSLVC45 launches from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, carrying EMISAT & 28 customer satellites on board in Sriharikota off the coast of Andhra Pradesh. (ANI)

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi files nomination papers from Wayanad parliamentary constituency in Kerala accompanied by Congress general secretary for Uttar Pradesh (East), Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. (ANI)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in a helicopter for an election rally, ahead of Lok Sabha polls, near Brigade Parade Ground, in Kolkata, West Bengal. (PTI)

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A Kashmiri Muslim woman with her face covered prays as the head priest displays a relic at the Hazratbal shrine on the occasion of Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to heaven, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Dar Yasin / AP)

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Delhi Capitals’ Rishab Pant in action against Kolkata Knight Riders during their IPL cricket match at Ferozshah Kotla ground in New Delhi. (Mohd Zakir / HT Photo)

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Former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) and CPI candidate from Begusarai Kanhaiya Kumar seen at his party office, in Begusarai, Bihar. (Parwaz Khan / HT Photo)

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Shaikh Isaque Ibrahim helps villagers fill buckets by claiming down a well with reduced water level. His work begins at 5 am and goes on for next four hours until the water dips further making it difficult to fill any more buckets in Jalna, Maharashtra. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and P. Chidambram during the release of the Congress Party’s Election Manifesto 2019 at AICC, in New Delhi. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

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A man leads a herd of cattle, at Kadipur, in New Delhi. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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Congress General Secretary Priyanka Vadra during a roadshow ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, in Ghaziabad, Haryana. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

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A security drill seen in the premises of a residential high rise tower complex at Prabhadevi in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Samson Tupdal / HT Photo)

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Labourers carry clay bricks to a brick kiln in Farakka, in West Bengal. (Xavier Galiana / AFP)

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Police tip marijuana onto a fire as they incinerate some 4,572 kilos of the drug worth about 70 million rupees (1 million USD) in Agartala, Tripura. (Arindam Dey / AFP)

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A policeman looks out from a gate of a central jail in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Riots broke out after rumours started floating that some inmates were being shifted out of the Kashmir valley. The inmates burnt a temporary shelter and tried to come to the outer cordon of the jail located in the downtown area of the city. (Tauseef Mustafa / AFP)

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A woman casts her vote on a demo electronic voting machine and checks on Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail or VVPAT as others wait in the queue during an election awareness drive among tea garden labourers in Jorhat, Assam. (Anupam Nath / AP)

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Konyak tribal women participate in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the 'largest traditional Konyak dance’, in Kohima, Nagaland. (PTI)

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Bollywood actor and Congress Parliamentary candidate from Mumbai North Lok sabha constituency Urmila Matondkar with auto rickshaw drivers of Gorai area during her visit to the local Congress party office in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (PTI)

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A Delhi Transport Corporation bus passes by another that caught fire at Hanuman Temple near Kashmiri Gate in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)

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Animal rights activists and campaigners protest demanding the implementation of the Law Commission of India’s rules for hens laying eggs at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)