India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country, from Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Ahmedabad to 12 passport offices in India that will be getting the smart chip passport facility under the first phase of the project to revamp passports.

Updated on: Mar 12, 2019 5:17 PM IST

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi addresses the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, in Ahmedabad. Gandhi said the Congress Working Committee has resolved the defeat the RSS/BJP ideology. “No sacrifice is too great in this endeavour; no effort too little; this battle will be won,” Gandhi wrote on Twitter following the Congress strategy meet. (PTI)

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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei's newly-launched Watch GT, Huawei Band 3 Pro and Huawei Band 3e on display, in New Delhi. It will be available in India from March 19. (PTI)

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The Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to Bollywood actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre, Neelam and a local resident, Dushyant Singh, in connection with the hunting of two blackbucks in 1998. The state government had filed a leave-to-appeal in the High Court against the acquittal of the five accused. (HT Archive)

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A day after Congress ruled out any alliance with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that it will win all seven seats in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. Kejriwal told media, “. As per our internal survey, all seven AAP contestants are winning, without Congress. We don’t have any indication or message from Congress regarding the alliance.” (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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The Jalandhar and Amritsar regional passport offices are among the 12 passport offices in India that will get the smart chip passport facility under the first phase of the project to revamp passports. Other regional offices to get the facility in the first phase are Chandigarh, Jammu, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Bareli and Bhopal. (HT Archive)

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Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has once again made it clear that her party will not ally with the Congress for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. “It is being made clear again that the Bahujan Samaj Party will not have any electoral alliance with the Congress in any state,” Mayawati said in a statement. (Subhankar Chakraborty / HT File)

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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court asked the Election Commission to explain how it will deal with people who make it to the voters’ list in Assam but are excluded from Assam’s final citizens’ register. The court was approached by two petitioners who complained that their names were taken off the voting list because they didn’t make it to an early version of the citizens’ list. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)