India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures --a roundup of today’s news across the country from the families of miners trapped in a Meghalaya rat-mine demanding the bodies be brought up as per a Supreme Court order to India winning by 7 wickets against Australia in the 1st ever bilateral ODI series in Australia.

Updated on: Jan 18, 2019 5:24 PM IST

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The families of the trapped miners inside the flooded Meghalaya mine have said that they want the bodies taken out as per the Supreme Court order even as Navy divers captured pictures of a body inside the flooded mine. The Supreme Court has ordered: “No matter whether they (trapped persons) are all dead, some alive, few dead or all alive, they should have been taken out by now. We pray to God that they all are alive.” (PTI File)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 9th edition of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit-2019, in Gandhinagar. “In the last 4 years, we have jumped 65 places in the Global Ranking of World Bank’s Doing Business Report... but we are still not satisfied. I have asked my team to work harder so that India is in the top 50 next year,” Prime Minister Modi said at inaugural session of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. (Siddharaj Solanki / HT Photo)

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi has written to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee extending his support to the mega opposition rally she is hosting on Saturday. “The entire opposition is united... I extend my support to Mamata Di on this show of unity and hope that we send a powerful message of a united India together,” Gandhi wrote in his letter on Friday. (PTI File)

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Two separate bandhs against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, affected normal life in several districts of lower Assam and in Golaghat district of upper Assam. In lower Assam, the bandh was called by the Adivasi Convention Committee, an umbrella organisation of different tribal groups while in Golaghat district, the shutdown was called by the Chatra Mukti Sangram Samiti and the All Assam Chutia Students’ Union (PTI)

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On Friday, the government appointed Rakesh Asthana, once No.2 officer in the CBI, as the head of aviation security, closing a long drawn feud between him and his boss Alok Verma, who too was moved out on January 10, just 21 days before he was due to complete his tenure. Asthana will now head the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security for the period of two years. (PTI File)

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On Friday, militants carried out two grenade attacks on security forces in Kashmir, including one in the Lal Chowk area of the city, but there were no reports of any casualty, police said. The ultras lobbed a grenade at a CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) bunker at Ghanta Ghar (Clock Tower) in Lal Chowk this afternoon, a police official said. (Waseem Andrabi / HT File)

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India beat Australia by 7 wickets to win 1st ever bilateral ODI series in Australia. MS Dhoni said during the post match presentation that it wasn’t an easy wicket to bat on and that is why they (Dhoni and Jadhav) had to bide their time in the middle and play according to the merit of the deliveries. (AP / PTI)