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India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country, from heavy rains in Mumbai disrupting transport services and claiming 18 lives in a related wall collapse to a quarrel flaring into communal tensions in Old Delhi and resulting in heavy police deployment all of Monday.

Updated on: Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM IST

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Mumbai was left paralaysed by the incessant rain on Tuesday, which left several areas of the financial capital waterlogged. Heavy rains lashing Mumbai since Sunday have thrown rail, air and road traffic out of gear, with several trains being cancelled. With IMD forecasting heavy rains for Tuesday, the authorities declared a holiday in the city and adjoining regions, asking people to avoid stepping out of their houses. (Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS)

Updated on Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM

Mumbai was left paralaysed by the incessant rain on Tuesday, which left several areas of the financial capital waterlogged. Heavy rains lashing Mumbai since Sunday have thrown rail, air and road traffic out of gear, with several trains being cancelled. With IMD forecasting heavy rains for Tuesday, the authorities declared a holiday in the city and adjoining regions, asking people to avoid stepping out of their houses. (Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS)

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A SpiceJet plane from Jaipur overshot the runway while landing at Mumbai airport amid heavy rain late on Monday night. A 150-metre-ramp is being prepared to help move the SpiceJet plane which is still stuck on the unpaved part towards the end of the main runway number 27 of the airport. It may take up to 48 hours to resume the flight operations on the runway. (Vijayanand Gupta / HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM

A SpiceJet plane from Jaipur overshot the runway while landing at Mumbai airport amid heavy rain late on Monday night. A 150-metre-ramp is being prepared to help move the SpiceJet plane which is still stuck on the unpaved part towards the end of the main runway number 27 of the airport. It may take up to 48 hours to resume the flight operations on the runway. (Vijayanand Gupta / HT Photo)

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The death toll in a wall collapse incident in Mumbai’s Malad went up to 18 after five more people were declared dead in hospitals. Six more people were killed in Maharashtra’s Pune after a wall of an educational institute in collapsed on Tuesday and three others died in a similar incident in Thane district, taking the death toll in rain-related accidents in the state to 27. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM

The death toll in a wall collapse incident in Mumbai’s Malad went up to 18 after five more people were declared dead in hospitals. Six more people were killed in Maharashtra’s Pune after a wall of an educational institute in collapsed on Tuesday and three others died in a similar incident in Thane district, taking the death toll in rain-related accidents in the state to 27. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

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Akash Vijayvargiya, the BJP’s Indore legislator who thrashed a municipal official, received a tongue lashing in-absentia from PM Modi who made it clear that he had taken a very dim view of his conduct. Modi did not name either of them at the meeting of BJP’s parliamentary party on Tuesday but referred to the video clip of the assault . “I see people hitting them… Did people vote us for this,” he said. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM

Akash Vijayvargiya, the BJP’s Indore legislator who thrashed a municipal official, received a tongue lashing in-absentia from PM Modi who made it clear that he had taken a very dim view of his conduct. Modi did not name either of them at the meeting of BJP’s parliamentary party on Tuesday but referred to the video clip of the assault . “I see people hitting them… Did people vote us for this,” he said. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi Tuesday raised in the Lok Sabha the issue of corporatisation of railways’ Modern Coach Factory in her Rae Bareli constituency and accused the government of selling the country’s assets to private players at throwaway prices, a charge that was immediately denied by the Railways. (PTI)

Updated on Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM

UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi Tuesday raised in the Lok Sabha the issue of corporatisation of railways’ Modern Coach Factory in her Rae Bareli constituency and accused the government of selling the country’s assets to private players at throwaway prices, a charge that was immediately denied by the Railways. (PTI)

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Singapore High Court has ordered freezing of a balance of $6.122 million (Rs. 44.41 crore) in a bank account maintained in Singapore by M/s Pavilion Point Corporation, British Virgin Island, according to a press release of the Enforcement Directorate. The company is beneficially owned by Maiank Mehta and Purvi Modi, brother-in-law and sister of diamantaire Nirav Modi who is the main accused in the PNB fraud case. (Aniruddha Chowdhury / Mint Archive)

Updated on Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM

Singapore High Court has ordered freezing of a balance of $6.122 million (Rs. 44.41 crore) in a bank account maintained in Singapore by M/s Pavilion Point Corporation, British Virgin Island, according to a press release of the Enforcement Directorate. The company is beneficially owned by Maiank Mehta and Purvi Modi, brother-in-law and sister of diamantaire Nirav Modi who is the main accused in the PNB fraud case. (Aniruddha Chowdhury / Mint Archive)

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The fuel drop tank of a Tejas aircraft of the Indian Air Force fell off mid-air during a routine sortie from the Sulur air base near Coimbatore on Tuesday morning. Labourers in Irugur village were shocked to see the 1200-litre petrol tank fall from the sky. Police said it caused a three-foot deep crater and a minor fire, news agency PTI reported. The aircraft landed safely after the incident. (ANI)

Updated on Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM

The fuel drop tank of a Tejas aircraft of the Indian Air Force fell off mid-air during a routine sortie from the Sulur air base near Coimbatore on Tuesday morning. Labourers in Irugur village were shocked to see the 1200-litre petrol tank fall from the sky. Police said it caused a three-foot deep crater and a minor fire, news agency PTI reported. The aircraft landed safely after the incident. (ANI)

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Lucknow district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma has clarified that there was no dress code for visitors at Bada Imambada, nor was there any compulsion to cover one’s head. The clarification came in response to Sharma’s alleged statement recently, saying vulgarity would not be allowed at Bada Imambada — a centrally protected structure that serves as a shrine for Shia Muslims. (Dheeraj Dhawan / HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM

Lucknow district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma has clarified that there was no dress code for visitors at Bada Imambada, nor was there any compulsion to cover one’s head. The clarification came in response to Sharma’s alleged statement recently, saying vulgarity would not be allowed at Bada Imambada — a centrally protected structure that serves as a shrine for Shia Muslims. (Dheeraj Dhawan / HT Photo)

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A fight over parking a scooter snowballed into communal tension at Lal Kuan near Chawri Bazar in Old Delhi on Monday as groups of Hindu and Muslim residents accused each other of stone pelting and violence on Sunday night. There was heavy security with more than 1,000 Delhi Police and paramilitary personnel armed with anti-riot gear deployed through the day on Monday. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 02, 2019 5:11 PM

A fight over parking a scooter snowballed into communal tension at Lal Kuan near Chawri Bazar in Old Delhi on Monday as groups of Hindu and Muslim residents accused each other of stone pelting and violence on Sunday night. There was heavy security with more than 1,000 Delhi Police and paramilitary personnel armed with anti-riot gear deployed through the day on Monday. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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