India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from England marching into the final of the Women’s World T20 with a commanding 8-wicket victory over India in the second semi-final to six separatist militants killed in a gunbattle in the Kashmir on Friday.

Updated on: Nov 23, 2018 5:30 PM IST

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England marched into the final of the Women’s World T20 with a commanding 8-wicket victory over India in the second semi-final at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Thursday. After limiting the previously unbeaten Indians to 112 all out off 19.3 overs, the English made light work of a potentially tricky target with an unbroken third-wicket partnership of 94 between “Player of the Match” Amy Jones and all-rounder Natalie Sciver. (Randy Brooks / AFP)

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Jasprit Bumrah (R) is congratulated by captain Virat Kohli (C) after dismissing Australia's batsman Marcus Stoinis during their T20 international cricket match at the MCG in Melbourne. Rain played spoilsport as the match was abandoned. Not a single ball was bowled after Australia posted 132/7 in 19 overs. (William West / AFP)

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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday strongly disapproved party leader CP Joshi’s reported statement that appeared to suggest that only Brahmins could speak about Hindus. CP Joshi’s statement, Gandhi said, was against the ideals of the Congress party and told him to express regret. “Party leaders should not give any statement that hurt any section of the society... I am sure Joshi ji will realise his mistake, keeping party’s principles in mind,” Gandhi said on Twitter. (Arvind Yadav / HT Archive)

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India on Friday lodged a “strong protest” with Pakistan after two officials of the Indian high commission in Islamabad were reportedly humiliated and barred from entering gurdwaras in the neighbouring country. Aranjeet Singh and Sunil Kumar were not allowed to enter Gurdwara Nankana Sahib on Wednesday night and Gurdwara Sacha Sauda on Thursday. (ANI)

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A 58-year-old farmer committed suicide after Cyclone Gaja uprooted hundreds of coconut trees in his farm in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district, police have said, as farm leaders blamed the state government for offering a paltry compensation of Rs 1,700 against the loss. Police said Sundar Raj from the district’s Sozhagankudikadu village allegedly consumed pesticide. (PTI File)

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A militant accused of killing journalist Shujaat Bukhari was among the six operatives linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen who were killed on Friday in a gun battle with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said. (Tauseef Mustafa / AFP File)

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Intensifying his attack against the Congress ahead of the assembly elections in Mizoram, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the party’s priority is grabbing power and not people of Mizoram. Taking a strong objection to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s remark who had termed Naga headgear “outlandish”, the Prime Minister accused the Congress of being least bothered about aspirations of Mizos. (ANI)