From the Super Blue Blood Moon to Union Budget 2018: India this week in pics

In Chandigarh, the moon put up a striking celestial show as a coppery red orb rose high up in the sky to mark a rare lunar eclipse on January 31, 2018. After decades, moon-gazers saw a super moon, when it looks bigger and brighter than ever, a blue moon, which is the second full moon in a calendar month, and a blood moon, a reference to the red colour of an eclipse. (Ravi Kumar / HT Photo)

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In Chandigarh, the moon put up a striking celestial show as a coppery red orb rose high up in the sky to mark a rare lunar eclipse on January 31, 2018. After decades, moon-gazers saw a super moon, when it looks bigger and brighter than ever, a blue moon, which is the second full moon in a calendar month, and a blood moon, a reference to the red colour of an eclipse. (Ravi Kumar / HT Photo)

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Finance minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget 2018 -- the BJP’s fifth -- in Parliament on Februray 01, 2018. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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India's Shubham Gill celebrates 100 runs during the U-19 semi-final cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan at Hagley Oval in Christchurch, New Zealand on January 30, 2018. (Marty Melville / AFP)

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The third Scorpene-class submarine ‘Karanj’ was launched at Mazgaon Dock, Mumbai on January 31, 2018. Karanj is the third of the six Scorpene-class submarines being built by shipbuilder Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) under the P-75I project. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

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Amid soulful classical renditions and foot-tapping numbers, the Beating Retreat ceremony was held at Vijay Chowk, New Delhi on January 29, 2018, marking the culmination of Republic Day celebrations. The ceremony saw several military bands, pipes and drums bands from regimental centres and battalions enthralling the crowd. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)

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Priyabrat Panigrahi, an artist, performs Hakanai, a choreographic work that features a solo dancer surrounded by a cubist landscape of moving digital images, in an auditorium in Chennai on January 28, 2018. (Abhishek N. Chinnappa / REUTERS)

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PM Narendra Modi pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 70th death anniversary, also observed as Martyrs' Day at Rajghat in New Delhi on January 30, 2018. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

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Rescuers pulling out the ill-fated public bus which fell into the Bhairab river in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on January 29, 2018. (PTI)

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Artists perform a play, based on Shrilal Shukla’s book, “Agyatvas” during the Shrilal Shukla Smriti IFFCO Sahitya Samman 2017 in New Delhi on January 31, 2018. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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A boy walks over burning coal as part of the Thaipusam festival in Chennai on January 31, 2018. Hindu devotees across Malaysia, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka celebrated the annual Thaipusam festival, with many piercing their skin with hooks and skewers to show devotion to the deity Murugan. (P. Ravikumar / REUTERS)

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A major fire broke out in Bhiwandi, around 30km from Mumbai, early Wednesday, gutting 15 scrap godowns and six shanties. There were no casualties. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)