India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country, from the Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala setting a new deadline for Karnataka Chief Minister Kumaraswamy to prove majority in the assembly, to Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra being stopped by the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district.

Updated on: Jul 19, 2019 6:15 PM IST

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Governor Vajubhai Vala on Friday set a new deadline for Karnataka Chief Minister Kumaraswamy to prove majority in the assembly. This followed a day of fast–paced developments where the Assembly missed the 1.30 deadline set by the governor, who shot off a report on political developments to the Centre soon after. (Shailendra Bhojak / PTI)

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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was stopped by police in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district while on her way to meet the families of those killed in a shooting over a land dispute on Wednesday. A village head and his supporters allegedly opened fire on a rival group over a land dispute in Ghorawal police station area, killing 10 people, including three women, and leaving 19 injured on Wednesday. (AICC / AFP)

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The NDA government on Friday asked the Supreme Court to extend the 31 July deadline for the Assam citizens list, insisting that it needed to tweak the processes for inclusion of names in the list. The Centre said lakhs of illegal immigrants had crept and many citizens left out in the list that had been prepared so far. (REUTERS File)

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The Supreme Court on Friday extended by six months the time frame for completing the criminal trial in Ayodhya case while setting a nine-month deadline for the final order in the case to be delivered. Allowing the special CBI judge to complete the trial within ‘six months from today’, the top court bench headed by Justice RF Nariman said that the judgment should be ‘ready and delivered maximum within a period of nine months from today’. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT File)

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The Supreme Court allowed Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to prepare a rehabilitation plan for 44 girls who were allegedly sexually assaulted at a Muzaffarpur shelter home. The allegation of sexual assaults first came to light in May last year when TISS had submitted a “social audit” report on the shelter home, run by a non-governmental organisation. (Kedar Bhat / HT Archive)

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Fiona MacKeown (C), the mother of murdered British schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling, looks on as she leaves the Childrens Court in Panaji, on September 23, 2016. The Bombay High Court at Goa has sentenced a beach shack owner Samson D’Souza to ten years rigorous imprisonment and ₹2.60 lakh fine for drugging and sexually assaulting British Teenager Scarlett Keeling before leaving her to die 10 years ago on a South Goa beach. (AFP File)

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Extending losses for the second consecutive session, market benchmark BSE Sensex plunged 560 points Friday after the government thwarted hopes of a tax relief for FPIs. Led by a sell-off in auto and banking stocks, the 30-share index cracked 560.45 points or 1.44 per cent to settle at 38,337.01. (Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS File)