India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country from PM Narendra Modi addressing his first rally in Telangana at Nizamabad to a leopard cub sighted near district courts complex in Shimla.

Updated on: Nov 27, 2018 5:08 PM IST

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Addressing his first rally in Telangana at Nizamabad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took on caretaker chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, saying that he had not kept the promises he had made to the people of the state. Modi said that when KCR was elected CM, he had promised to turn Nizamabad into London. (PTI)

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Three people, including a fire officer, were injured in a fire that broke out in a slum at Shastri Nagar in Bandra area of Mumbai on Tuesday. As soon as news of the blaze was received, fire tenders, police and ambulance rushed to the spot for rescue operations. (Rafiq Maqbool / AP)

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Residents of Shimla were gripped by panic after a leopard cub was sighted near district courts complex at Chakkar on Tuesday morning. The animal was later rescued by forest officials. According to eyewitnesses, the cub was hiding under a parked car and police were informed who then called forests officials. (PTI)

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday hauled the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government over the coals for not filing sodomy and abuse cases against shelter homes indicted in a study report earlier this year. “What are you (Bihar government) doing? It’s shameful. If the child is sodomised you say it’s nothing? How can you do this? It’s inhuman... Every time I read this file it’s tragic,” the court said, according to news agency ANI. (AP File)

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Navjot Singh Sidhu crosses Attari-Wagah border to Pakistan on Tuesday. Sidhu was invited by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to attend the ground breaking ceremony of Kartarpur Corridor on 28th November and has drawn much flak from within the Congress party over his decision. Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh has already turned down Pakistan’s invitation citing state-sponsored terrorism by Islamabad. (ANI)

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A caretaker of a Delhi mosque was caught carrying a live bullet while visiting chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Janata Darbar on Monday morning, police said, six days after a visitor threw chilli powder at the chief minister at Delhi secretariat. Tshe man was visiting with 12 other clerics to seek an increase in the salaries of the Delhi Waqf Board staff. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) president and actor Kamal Haasan on Tuesday appealed to the Kerala government and its people “to rise above politics and other affiliations” and extend help for restoring normalcy in the cyclone-affected districts of Tamil Nadu. Haasan said Cyclone Gaja caused widespread damage and destruction to life and property in the delta and coastal districts of Tamil Nadu. (PTI File)

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While addressing a public meeting in Sirohi, Rajasthan, BJP president Amit Shah said that Congress was ashamed to say ‘Bharat mata ki jai’. “They have no right to stay in India. For four generations, they did nothing for India,” Shah added. (PTI File)