India: Today’s news in pictures
Updated On Sep 18, 2018 05:16 PM IST
India news in pictures --a roundup of today’s top news across the country from the much-awaited clash between arch-rivals India and Pakistan set to take place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Wednesday to CM Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and 11 lawmakers summoned as accused by a Delhi court in a case filed against them for assaulting the city’s top bureaucrat Anshu Prakash, on October 25.
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The much-awaited clash between arch-rivals India and Pakistan is set to take place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Wednesday. While India’s stand-in skipper Rohit Sharma has said that the team is ready for the challenge, Pakistan skipper Sarfraz Ahmed believes that his boys need to bring out their best game against the arch-rivals. (Arif Ali / AFP File)
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PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched multiple projects and gave a detailed account of how the government had started changing the face of the city. “You are my master, you are my high command. So I have to give you an account for the money and time spent,” Modi said at the end of speech that mostly steered clear of politics and focused on how the city had changed over the last four years. (PTI)
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CM Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and 11 lawmakers have been summoned as accused by a Delhi court in a case filed against them for assaulting the city’s top bureaucrat Anshu Prakash nearly seven months ago. They have been ordered to appear in court on October 25. (Sonu Mehta / HT Archive)
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Police on Tuesday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party chief Manoj Tiwari for illegally breaking the lock of a sealed house. Tiwari had said on Sunday that with his action, he has started a movement against the ‘pick-and-choose’ sealing in the national capital. (Amal KS / HT Photo)
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Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said PM Narendra Modi’s silence on the gangrape of a 19-year-old board exam topper in Haryana was “unacceptable”, adding that it was shameful on the part of the government to leave the country’s women unprotected. “Prime Minister, your silence is unacceptable. Shame on a government that leaves India’s women unprotected and afraid and allows rapists to walk free,” Gandhi wrote on Twitter. (ANI)
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Students of Sher-e- Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS) raise placards during a silent protest, demanding the release of their colleague Mohammad Iqbal who was arrested by police in Jhajjar Kotli incident last week, in Srinagar. (PTI)
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In a setback to Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal’s effort to get protection against arrest, the Kerala High Court on Tuesday deferred hearing his petition for anticipatory bail to September 25. The Bishop had been summoned in connection with the probe into allegations of rape by a nun amid mounting pressure for action against him and continuing protests by nuns and officials of various churches for the past 10 days in Kochi. (Vivek Nair / HT File)
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Reliance Power Chairman Anil Ambani today said the company is looking at inorganic growth through acquisition of stressed thermal coal-based projects. “Besides acquisition, we are also looking at opportunities in the operation and maintenance (O&M) services for stressed power projects which are under the review petition of the resolution,” Ambani said. (PTI)
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Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday that Navjot Singh Sidhu’s gesture of hugging Pakistan’s army chief impacted soldiers back home and asserted that the Punjab minister could have “avoided it.” Cricketer-turned politician Sidhu had courted controversy by hugging Pakistan Army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa during his visit to Pakistan for the swearing-in of Imran Khan as Prime Minister. (PTI)
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