India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures --a roundup of today’s news across the country the Indian National Congress announcing Priyanka Gandhi’s appointment as the AICC general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East to the arrest of nine people including juvenile in Mahrashtra by the state Anti-Terrorism Squad for alleged links with ISIS.

Updated on: Jan 23, 2019 5:01 PM IST

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In a major crackdown, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad today said that it has arrested nine people including a juvenile from Mumbra, Thane and Aurangabad for alleged links with ISIS. The arrests came during the course of an investigation into the presence of sleeper cells ahead of Republic Day. (Satish Bate / HT File)

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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on Wednesday appointed AICC general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East. Jyotiraditya Scindia was appointed general secretary for UP West. The party also replaced Ashok Gehlot as AICC general secretary Organisation with K C Venugopal. Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad was appointed AICC general secretary in charge of Haryana. (Pawan Kumar / REUTERS File)

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The BSF handed over the 31 Rohingya Muslims, who were stranded on the India-Bangladesh border for four days, to Tripura Police, even as 30 more community members were apprehended in Assam, officials said. The 31 Rohingya, who apparently came from Jammu and Kashmir, had been stuck in no-man’s land, beyond the barbed wire fence along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Tripura since January 18. (Abhisek Saha / AP)

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The Supreme Court has granted bail to four convicts in Naroda Patiya case of 2002 when 97 people were killed during riots in Gujarat. The Gujarat High Court had last year convicted Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and others, but acquitted former BJP minister Maya Kodnani for want of evidence in the case. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Archive)

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Rescuers are struggling to relocate the body of a miner in a rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills District after it slipped from the grip of the Navy’s remote operated vehicle (ROV) on Tuesday. The body, spotted on January 16, disengaged from the ROV after it was pulled from the rat hole to the main shaft of the mine, said an official involved in the rescue operation. (Sadiq Naqvi / HT File)

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In an interview with the popular Facebook page The Humans of Bombay, the Prime Minister has said he would go “somewhere in a jungle – a place with only clean water and no people” for five days during Diwali every year to reflect on his life. (Kiyoshi Ota / Pool via REUTERS File)

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Low visibility delayed at least 21 trains to Delhi on Wednesday, a day after heavy rains and hailstorm lashed the national capital affecting traffic, news agency ANI reported. On Tuesday, at least 15 trains to the Capital were delayed due to fog and low visibility. (Sanchit Khanna / HT File)