India: Today’s news in pictures
India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from a fresh warning of thunderstorms in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to internet services being suspended in Aligarh district on Friday amid the Jinnah portrair controversy.
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The government on Friday issued a fresh warning for thunderstorms in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh even as several states continued relief work in the aftermath of Wednesday’s powerful dust storm that left more than 100 people dead. (PTI File)
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Internet services were suspended in Aligarh district on Friday after a controversy over a portrait of Pakistan’s founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). The controversy began earlier this week when Aligarh BJP MP Satish Gautam wrote to AMU vice chancellor Tariq Mansoor seeking justification for the portrait of Jinnah, blamed by many for the partition of India. (PTI)
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Karnataka BJP president and chief ministerial candidate B.S. Yediyurappa (2L) releases the party’s manifesto along with other senior party leaders from the state in Bangalore. The manifesto called “Namma Karnataka Namma Vachana” for the May 12 Karnataka elections promised a range of schemes for farmers, from waiving all loans of up to Rs 1 lakh to sending them abroad for training. (Manjunath Kiran / AFP)
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Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday called PM Narendra Modi a “natural liar”, and said he had insulted Bengaluru by referring to it as a garbage city. Gandhi’s condemnation comes a day after Modi attacked the Congress party’s government in Karnataka for destroying the cityscape. (PTI File)
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