India: Today’s News in Pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from a thick smog hanging over Delhi just two days before Diwali to a Mayday scare aboard an Indigo airline flight as it approached landing in Chennai.

Updated on: Nov 05, 2018 5:29 PM IST

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Delhi woke up to a thick blanket of hazy dust with the air remaining toxic two days ahead of Diwali and the weather office warning of worse air quality days ahead. Northwesterly winds are likely to bring pollutants to Delhi’s air from Punjab and Haryana, where farm fires are continuing though the numbers of such cases are seeing a gradual decline. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

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Devices to block phone calls and other radio signals, commandos and some 2,300 police personnel, including women officers above the age of 50 in a three tier system were put in place at the Lord Ayyappa shrine and its base camps, with the Sabarimala temple’s doors scheduled to open at 5pm Monday for a special one-day puja. (Manish Swarup / AP)

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A fire broke out at an eight-storey commercial building at the crowded Park Street area in Kolkata at around 11 am today. Ten fire engines were rushed in to douse the blaze at Apeejay House. No casualties were reported and all people in the building were evacuated. (HT Photo)

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The pilot of an Indigo flight from Andhra Pradesh’s Rajahmundry city to Chennai was forced to send a distress call after the plane suffered a technical glitch on one of its engines, the country’s largest domestic airline said. A full emergency was declared at the airport as the aircraft did a go around or aborted landing on its final approach. (AFP File)

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Delhi’s long-delayed Signature Bridge was finally inaugurated on Sunday by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and deputy CM Manish Sisodia. The iconic bridge, was thrown open for vehicles on Monday. It is expected to significantly reduce traffic in areas of north and northeast Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)

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The attackers involved in the killings of senior BJP leader Anil Parihar and his brother Ajit Parihar have been identified and will be brought before the people soon, Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik said on Monday. Anil Parihar, 53, and his brother Ajit were shot on Thursday in Kishtwar town. The killings, ahead of the panchayat elections starting November 17, triggered angry protests in the communally sensitive district. (Nitin Kanotra / HT Photo)

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Villagers crushed a tigress to death with a tractor in the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve on Sunday, hours after they said the animal mauled a 50-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit district, according to officials. The incident, in the Kishanpur sanctuary of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, came two days after hunters shot dead a tigress suspected of killing 13 people in Maharashtra. (Ajit Solanki / AP File)

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Five Maoists, including two women, were gunned down on Monday by police in a forested area of Odisha’s Malkangiri district bordering Andhra Pradesh, officials said, in one of the heaviest casualty tolls suffered by the insurgents in the last three years. (Sasanka Sen / AP File)