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India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country, from a grenade blast at the Jammu bus stand in the city that injured 30 people and climed one life to the Supreme Court telling the Centre that it should decide on meeting to select first Lokpal in 10 days.

Updated on: Mar 07, 2019 5:50 PM IST

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Thirty people were injured, three to four among them critically, in a powerful grenade blast around noon at the busy Jammu Bus Stand in the heart of the old city in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. One of the 30 people who were injured in the grenade explosion has succumbed to his injuries at the Government Medical College and Hospital. A police officer said the grenade had been placed under a bus. (Nitin Kanotra / HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 5:50 PM

Thirty people were injured, three to four among them critically, in a powerful grenade blast around noon at the busy Jammu Bus Stand in the heart of the old city in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. One of the 30 people who were injured in the grenade explosion has succumbed to his injuries at the Government Medical College and Hospital. A police officer said the grenade had been placed under a bus. (Nitin Kanotra / HT Photo)

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India captain Virat Kohli is on the verge of adding a new feather to his cap in the third ODI of the five-match series against Australia in Ranchi on Friday. Kohli — who slammed his 40th ODI ton in the second match — is all set to reach a new milestone if he scores 27 runs in Ranchi, which will make him the 12th cricketer ever to score 4000 runs as captain in ODIs. (Sunny Shende / ANI)

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 5:50 PM

India captain Virat Kohli is on the verge of adding a new feather to his cap in the third ODI of the five-match series against Australia in Ranchi on Friday. Kohli — who slammed his 40th ODI ton in the second match — is all set to reach a new milestone if he scores 27 runs in Ranchi, which will make him the 12th cricketer ever to score 4000 runs as captain in ODIs. (Sunny Shende / ANI)

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Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre meets Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman at Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi Cantonment in New Delhi on March 3, 2019. Varthaman staved off Pakistani interrogators trying to extract crucial information on Indian troop deployment, high-security radio frequencies and sensitive logistics during the first 24 hours of his captivity in Pakistan, according to a senior officer debriefing the 35-year-old fighter pilot. (Twitter / PTI File)

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 5:50 PM

Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre meets Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman at Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi Cantonment in New Delhi on March 3, 2019. Varthaman staved off Pakistani interrogators trying to extract crucial information on Indian troop deployment, high-security radio frequencies and sensitive logistics during the first 24 hours of his captivity in Pakistan, according to a senior officer debriefing the 35-year-old fighter pilot. (Twitter / PTI File)

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Advocate Prashant Bhushan Thursday admitted before the Supreme Court that he made a “genuine mistake” by tweeting that the government had perhaps submitted fabricated minutes of a meeting of the selection committee on appointment of M Nageswara Rao as an interim CBI director. Attorney General K K Venugopal told the bench that in view of Bhushan’s statement, he would like to withdraw his contempt plea filed against the lawyer. (Arun Sharma / PTI File)

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 5:50 PM

Advocate Prashant Bhushan Thursday admitted before the Supreme Court that he made a “genuine mistake” by tweeting that the government had perhaps submitted fabricated minutes of a meeting of the selection committee on appointment of M Nageswara Rao as an interim CBI director. Attorney General K K Venugopal told the bench that in view of Bhushan’s statement, he would like to withdraw his contempt plea filed against the lawyer. (Arun Sharma / PTI File)

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday stepped up the campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal, demanding that the government probe him too. “Why can’t there be a criminal investigation against him also,” Gandhi said, pointing to the Centre’s decision to probe the leak of official documents from the defence ministry. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 5:50 PM

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday stepped up the campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal, demanding that the government probe him too. “Why can’t there be a criminal investigation against him also,” Gandhi said, pointing to the Centre’s decision to probe the leak of official documents from the defence ministry. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

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The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Attorney General KK Venugopal to submit within 10 days the date of meeting of the prime minister-led panel on the appointment of Lokpal and at the same time turned down advocate Prashant Bhushan’s plea to make public the names proposed by the search committee. Turning down Bhushan’s plea the bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the matter should be left to the search committee. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT File)

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 5:50 PM

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Attorney General KK Venugopal to submit within 10 days the date of meeting of the prime minister-led panel on the appointment of Lokpal and at the same time turned down advocate Prashant Bhushan’s plea to make public the names proposed by the search committee. Turning down Bhushan’s plea the bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the matter should be left to the search committee. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT File)

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A complaint was lodged at a court in Bihar on Wednesday against former JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar (L) over his alleged objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The petition was registered at the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court by Bharatiya Janata Party minorities’ cell state vice president Titu Badwal. In his complaint, Badwal alleged that Kumar had made the “incendiary” comments at the Anjuman Islamia Hall on Monday. (Arijit Sen / HT File)

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 5:50 PM

A complaint was lodged at a court in Bihar on Wednesday against former JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar (L) over his alleged objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The petition was registered at the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court by Bharatiya Janata Party minorities’ cell state vice president Titu Badwal. In his complaint, Badwal alleged that Kumar had made the “incendiary” comments at the Anjuman Islamia Hall on Monday. (Arijit Sen / HT File)

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Jammu and Kashmir police shift Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik inside a police vehicle after he was booked under Public Safety Act which allows for people to be held for up to two years without judicial intervention, at Lal Chowk, in Srinagar. Malik will be shifted to Kot Bhalwal jail on the outskirts of Srinagar. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 5:50 PM

Jammu and Kashmir police shift Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik inside a police vehicle after he was booked under Public Safety Act which allows for people to be held for up to two years without judicial intervention, at Lal Chowk, in Srinagar. Malik will be shifted to Kot Bhalwal jail on the outskirts of Srinagar. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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