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India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from two coaches of Andhra Pradesh AC Superfast Express catching fire in Gwalior to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s 27th death anniversary.

Updated on: May 21, 2018 5:28 PM IST

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Two coaches of Andhra Pradesh AC Superfast Express going from Hazrat Nizamuddin station in New Delhi to Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh caught fire near Birlanagar station in Gwalior on Monday. There were no reports of any casualty. (HT Photo)

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UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and others including Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 27th death anniversary at his memorial Veer Bhumi in New Delhi. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Russia’s Black Sea coastal city Sochi for an informal summit with President Vladimir Putin which will focus on pressing global and regional issues, including impact of the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. The two leaders will meet for around four to six hours for the ‘agendaless’ talks where deliberations on bilateral issues are likely to be very limited. (PTI / PIB)

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Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy (R), who is all set to take over as Karnataka chief minister, arrives to meet Mayawati at her residence in New Delhi. Kumaraswamy will also meet UPA chief Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi as both parties have started bargaining behind the scenes on portfolios in the new Karnataka assembly. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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Restrictions were placed in old Srinagar city to foil the ‘Eidgah march’ commemorating the death anniversaries of late religious leader Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq and separatist leader Abdul Gani Lone. Both leaders were shot down on May 21 in 1990 and in 2002 respectively. Shops, educational institutions and business establishments remained closed in Srinagar and other towns. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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At least nine people have died in Kerala’s Kozhikode district due to Nipah virus, an infection which has high fatality rate and spreads mainly through bats, pigs and other animals, state health officials said. On Sunday night, the fears of the Nipah virus came true with Kerala’s Health Director RL Saritha announcing it. (Schneyder Mendoza / AFP File)

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Over 17,000 candidates did not take up the JEE (Advanced) examination held in two shifts at 573 centers across the country on Sunday. As many as 1,57,496 appeared for the first paper and 1,55,091 made it to the second paper. The examination passed off peacefully on Sunday, with no case unfair means being reported from any centres. (Sunil Ghosh / HT Photo)

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India on Monday successfully test-fired the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a test range along the Odisha coast to validate its ‘life extension’ technologies developed for the first time in India by DRDO and team BrahMos. (Arun Sankar / AFP File)