India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures --a roundup of today’s news across the country from the Indian army foiling a New Year’s eve attack on the LoC to the Sajjan Kumar's surrender at a Delhi Court in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Updated on: Dec 31, 2018 5:53 PM IST

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The Indian Army has claimed to have thwarted a “treacherous attempt” by Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT) to launch a strike on its post along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Naugam sector and killed two intruders in the area. A spokesperson of the army said the recovery of arms and ammunition early on Sunday indicated that they intended to carry out a “gruesome attack” in the region. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Archive)

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Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar surrendered in a local court in Delhi to serve a life sentence for the killing of five people in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots after his plea for an extension of time to start his sentence was rejected by the Delhi High Court. The High Court had set a deadline of December 31 for Kumar to surrender. He surrendered before Metropolitan Magistrate Aditi Garg. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Archive)

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A united Opposition thwarted the government’s attempt to push the instant Triple Talaq Bill in the Rajya Sabha as it insisted on referring it to the select committee of Parliament. Amid uproar over the bill, Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh adjourned the House for the day. The bill will now be tabled in the upper House of the Parliament on January 2, 2019. (RSTV grab via PTI)

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Indian Navy divers re-entered the main shaft of the nearly 350-feet flooded coal mine in Meghalaya with a remotely-operated device to search for the 15 miners stuck there for 18 days now. Officials of the National Disaster Response Force have said the divers could not reach the bottom of mine on Sunday as the level of the water was 125 feet rather than 70 feet, which they had calculated earlier. (Sadiq Naqvi / HT File)

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The entire state of Nagaland has been declared “disturbed area” for six more months, under the controversial AFSPA. In a notification, the Home Ministry said the central government is of the opinion that the area is in such a disturbed and dangerous condition that the use of armed forces in aid of civilian power is necessary. (HT Archive)

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The 9.7-km Lajpat Nagar-Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 corridor of the Delhi Metro’s Pink Line was inaugurated by Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri. The line directly connects south and east Delhi on the rapid transit network. The new segment is part of the 59-km-long Pink Line, which spans from Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)

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Three labourers were killed and seven others were missing after a massive fire broke out in a snack factory in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. Three bodies were recovered and seven people were missing after the fire at the factory in Chaknooran, the district magistrate said. Firefighting operations are underway. (Pratik Chorge / HT File / Representative Image)

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will attempt to recover from its recent electoral defeats in three Hindi heartland states with a focused strategy to win territories and forge fresh alliances, centered around a public speaking spree by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the next 100 days. Modi will tour 20 states to “activate” BJP workers and seek support from voters. (Shyam Sharma / HT File)