From snow-clad Jammu and Kashmir to upcoming Kumbh Mela: India this week
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From snow covered Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh to the festivities ahead of the Kumbh Festival 2019; a roundup of top photos from across the country.
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A view of a snow covered hut in Gulmarg, 55 kilometers north of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Dar Yasin / AP)
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A Sadhu gets his eyes tested at a free eye-care camp at a makeshift shelter before heading for an annual trip to Sagar Island for the one-day festival of “Makar Sankranti” in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Rupak De Chowdhuri / REUTERS)
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Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi head of Kinnar Akhara for transgenders, rides on a camel during a religious procession towards Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, as part of Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)
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A participant flies a huge kite during the International Kite Festival, at Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (Siddharaj Solanki / HT Photo)
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An auto-rickshaw driver walks past the parked vehicles as it snows in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. (Ashwini Bhatia / AP)
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A driver seen inside a vehicle during light rainfall on a winter morning, at Okhla vegetable market, in New Delhi. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen wears a mask of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)
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Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg gestures after washing her hands with the schoolgirls during her visit to a government-run school in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. (Anushree Fadnavis / REUTERS)
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A view of the crowd during Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s speech during the farmers’ rally, at Vidyadhar Nagar Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan. (Himanshu Vyas / HT Photo)
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People sit around a bonfire to warm themselves during a cold winter morning at Goregaon in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)
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A school boy dressed as Swami Vivekananda takes part in a rally in Bangalore, Karnataka. (Manjunath Kiran / AFP)
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A sadhu at Babughat Transit point on his way to Gangasagar Mela in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Ashok Bhaumik / PTI)
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A man sits as vehicles drive pass amid dense fog on a winter morning at Kirti Nagar, in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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Indian Navy personnel during the guard of honour ceremony for Chief of French Navy Admiral Christophe Prazuck on his visit to the Defence Ministry at South Block, in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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A man is seen working on the Ferris wheel for a fair at Dharavi in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Kunal Patil / HT Photo)
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BEST buses parked during indefinite strike called by its employees at Mumbai Central Bus Depot in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)
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Trade union activists shout slogans while courting arrest during the two-day nationwide strike called by central trade unions at Hazra in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Arijit Sen / HT Photo)
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Japanese hairdresser Megumi Takeichi cuts patterns into the hair of a camel ahead of the Bikaner Camel Festival in Bikaner, Rajasthan. (Dinesh Gupta / AFP)
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Tents of sadhus are pitched on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers for the upcoming Kumbh Mela festival Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. (Sanjay Kanojia / AFP)
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A car moves through a snow-covered road during fresh snowfall in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. (Deepak Sansta / HT Photo)
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A boatman breaks the ice to make his way on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Tauseef Mustafa / AFP)
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People spray milk on a billboard displaying the picture of actor Rajinikanth before attending the show of the new Tamil-language film Pettai in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (Arun Sankar / AFP)
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A man looks up from an underground sewage as he removes dirt in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. (Xavier Galiana / AFP)
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A boy looks out from a window in a home on the outskirts of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Tauseef Mustafa / AFP)
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Homeless men sleep inside a government-run night shelter on a cold winter night in the old quarters of Delhi. (Anushree Fadnavis / REUTERS)
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Police personnel look on as tyres are seen ablaze during a strike called by All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) in protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in Dibrugarh, Assam. (PTI)
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A sadhu applies sandalwood paste on his forehead near the Vindhyavasini temple ahead of Makar Sankranti festival in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. (PTI)
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