India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country from a fire at a hospital in Noida, to reduction of the policy interest rate by Reserve Bank of India.

Updated on: Feb 07, 2019 5:24 PM IST

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A fire broke out in Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute in Noida. Police and hospital staff evacuated scores of patients after the fire broke out around 11:30 am on the third floor of the hospital at the corner of a busy intersection in Noida Sector 12. Patients were shifted to another unit of the hospital at Sector 11, around 500 metres away. (Sunil Ghosh / HT Photo)

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The Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy committee today reduced the policy interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%, a move that could lead to banks reducing lending rates for consumer and home loans. At the committee’s meeting, the first after Shaktikanta Das took over as Governor, the bank also changed its stance to ‘neutral’ from the earlier ‘calibrated tightening’. (Danish Siddiqui / REUTERS File)

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The Yogi Adityanath government has proposed to spend over Rs 647 crore in the 2019-20 budget on the maintenance of cow-shelters in Uttar Pradesh. In the annual budget presented by UP Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal, Rs 247.60 crore was allocated for the maintenance of cow-shelters in rural areas. (Subhankar Chakraborty / HT Photo)

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Student groups affiliated to opposition political parties marched from Red Fort to Jantar Mantar as they participated in the Young India Adhikar March against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over a range of issues including lack of jobs, investment in the education sector and autonomy of universities. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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At least ten Maoists were killed on Thursday in an ongoing gun battle with security forces deep in a jungle in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. The encounter started at around 11am when a team of security forces reached the spot in the jungle where Maoists were being trained, officials said. (Parwaz Khan / HT Archive / Representative image)

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The first batch of 16 bike ambulances or First Response Vehicles (FRVs), was inaugurated by the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Equipped with first-aid kits, medical supplies and a mini oxygen tank, FRV paramedics will provide urgent on-site assistance and stabilise the medical condition in congested response areas before a traditional ambulance arrives. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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All flights, including those of GoAir and Indigo, were suspended today at Srinagar airport due to poor visibility and heavy snowfall. All flights of GoAir and IndiGo, two of SpiceJet, one of AirAsia and a chartered flight of the Indian Army were cancelled after the heavy snowfall. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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The Supreme Court on Thursday summoned senior CBI officer M Nageswara Rao over the transfer of officer A K Sharma, who was probing the Bihar shelter home cases, calling it a contempt of court. The court has asked Rao, the former interim director of CBI, and other officers to be present on February 12 and directed the agency to identify officers who were involved in the transfer of Sharma. (Manvender Vashist / PTI File)