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India news in pictures --a roundup of today’s news across the country from snow halting air traffic in Kashmir to forty-nine people injured on the first day of Jallikattu festival.

Updated on: Jan 16, 2019 5:13 PM IST

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A view of Lal Chowk during snowfall in Srinagar on Wednesday. Flight operations at the Srinagar international airport were halted on Wednesday following poor visibility and continued snowfall in the Kashmir valley. Moderate snowfall started in the morning. The weather office has forecast heavy snowfall in the valley from January 19 to 23 due to the development of an intense western disturbance over Jammu and Kashmir. (ANI)

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Amid a row over PM Narendra Modi receiving the Philip Kotler Presidential Award, the marketing guru, after whom the award is named, listed the reasons why the Modi was chosen. “He has improved his country’s image and visibility on the global stage. A committee voted on possible leaders given the criteria. The final decision was mine”, he wrote after political sparring followed in India following the announcement. (PTI File)

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Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit took over as Delhi Congress chief on Wednesday. In her first comments before taking charge, Dikshit said the party will strategise to meet the challenges ahead. Dikshit spoke of the BJP and AAP in the same breath. “BJP and AAP both are a challenge; we will meet the challenges together,” she said, according to news agency ANI. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

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Animal rights activists wait outside Sealdah Civil and Criminal court while a hearing is underway over two nursing students, allegedly seen in a video mercilessly beating puppies to death in a state-run medical college and hospital. The two were arrested on Tuesday after a marathon interrogation, police said. (Arijit Sen / HT Photo)

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Forty-nine people were injured on the first day of the traditional Jallikattu festival in Tamil Nadu that has attracted the ire of animal activists, officials said Wednesday. Nearly 500 bulls and a similar number of “tamers” were involved on the opening day of the festival in Madurai, said S Natarajan, district collector of the city. (PTI File)

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Research scholars from across the country staged a protest outside Shastri Bhawan in central Delhi on Wednesday in support of their long-standing demand of increasing the scholarship amount. A group of scholars had met Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar earlier this month following which the minister had said that the “government is positive about the demand”. However, no announcement in this regard has been made yet. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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At least 31 cities in India will have two airports by 2040 while Delhi and Mumbai will have a third airport by then, according to a vision document released by the ministry of civil aviation on Tuesday. The report released at Global Aviation Summit in Mumbai says most of the large Indian airports are expected to be saturated over the next 10-15 years. (REUTERS File)