India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from a grenade blast grenade at Jammu and Kashmir’s Bijbehara town leaving 10 civilians injured to Karnatak chief minister-designate HD Kumaraswamy ahead of his oath-taking ceremony.

Updated on: May 23, 2018 4:30 PM IST

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Civilians who were injured in the grenade blast being taken to a hospital in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bijbehara town. Police said the militants hurled a hand grenade in Goriwan Chowk of Bijbehara town that left 10 civilians, including a woman and a 12-year-old boy, injured. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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Karnataka chief minister-designate HD Kumaraswamy offers prayers at Chamundeshwari Temple ahead of his oath-taking ceremony, in Mysore. (PTI)

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Vidhan Soudha during heavy rains, hours before the swearing-in ceremony of HD Kumaraswamy in Bengaluru. (Arijit Sen / HT Photo)

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Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa (centre) along with BJP State General Secretary Shobha Karandlaje and other party supporters protest against the coalition government by Janta Dal (secular) and Congress, ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of the 24th Chief Minister of Karnataka, H. D. Kumaraswamy at Bengaluru’s Maurya Circle. (Arijit Sen / HT Photo)

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Four civilians were killed and 30 others, including BSF personnel, injured in the latest round of Pakistan shelling across the international border in Jammu region on Wednesday, taking the death toll in the firing to 11 since May 15. Pakistan rangers have been firing and shelling on Indian forward villages along the 195-km international border for over a week, forcing families to shift to safer places. (Nitin Kanotra / HT File)

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A man was killed in fresh police firing on anti-Sterlite plant agitators on Wednesday, while some others were injured in clashes with security personnel in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin town, a day after ten people were killed in police firing in the town. Locals have been agitating for over 100 days demanding the closure of Vedanta Group’s Sterlite copper plant over pollution concerns. (HT File)

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The Kerala government has announced monetary aid of Rs 20 lakh for the family of Lini Puthussery, a 31-year-old nurse who died after attending to those infected with the deadly Nipah virus in the state. Seen here are her relatives wearing masks. Amid the outbreak of the virus, the state government on Wednesday asked travellers to avoid visiting four northern districts of the state -- Kozhikode, Malappuram, Wayanad and Kannur. (PTI)

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A state office of the INC party appears to be deserted in New Delhi. The Congress is facing a financial crisis that could undermine its ability to wrest power from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2019. For the past five months, Congress leadership has stopped sending the funds required to run its offices in various states. (Anindito Mukherjee / Bloomberg)