India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from two CRPF jawans killed and one injured in a militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district to a 26-year-old man crushed to death by a truck after he fell off his two-wheeler that tripped on a pothole in Maharashtra’s Kalyan.

Updated on: Jul 13, 2018 5:14 PM IST

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Members of the Indian Army's Shwet Ashwa team pose for a group photo at India Gate upon their arrival for the celebrations of Kargil War victory in New Delhi on Friday. (Ravi Choudhary / PTI)

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A police officer lays a wreath on a grave at Martyrs’ Graveyard in Srinagar. July 13 is observed as Martyrs' Day in memory of the day when the region's Hindu king ordered the execution of more than 20 Kashmiri Muslims in a bid to put down an uprising in 1931. (Dar Yasin / AP)

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Former chief minister of united Andhra Pradesh N Kiran Kumar Reddy (C) rejoined Congress on Friday after a meeting with party president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi. Reddy had resigned from the party in 2014 in protest against the bifurcation of the state. While conveying his inclination to make a comeback, Mr Reddy has reportedly sought a key position in the AICC, befitting his stature. (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)

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PDP president and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti on Friday issued a strong warning to former ally Bharatiya Janata Party that efforts to break her party could have “dangerous consequences”. Mufti resigned in June after the BJP ended its three-year alliance with her party citing rising security crisis in Jammu and Kashmir. (Waseem Andrbai / HT File)

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Monika Bhagat, wife of BJP MLA Gagan Bhagat addresses the media on the issue of allegedly abducting a college girl, in Jammu on Friday. On June 24, Rajinder Singh accused Bhagat of abducting his daughter from Desh Bhagat University, Punjab, where she was pursuing Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) course, a charge denied by the girl as well as the politician who termed the allegation as an attempt to defame him. (PTI)

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An Indian paramilitary soldier walks on a deserted road during curfew in Srinagar. Two CRPF jawans were killed and one injured in a militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday, official sources said. The area has been cordoned off and a hunt launched to track down the assailants. (Dar Yasin / AP)

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A 26-year-old man was crushed to death by a truck after he fell off his two-wheeler that tripped on a pothole in Maharashtra’s Kalyan on Friday, police said, in the fifth such incident since the monsoon set in the state. “He died on the spot. The truck driver fled away immediately after the incident,” an officer of the Khadakpada police station said. (Rishikesh Chowdury / HT Photo)

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The Supreme Court on Friday took a strong note of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s decision to set up a social media hub for monitoring online data, observing that it will be “like creating a surveillance state.” The top court said the government wants to tap citizens’ WhatsApp messages and sought its response within two weeks. (Sajjad Hussain / AFP)