India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country, from Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit’s declaration of non-alliance with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), to the encounter of two militants in Kashmir’s Tral.

Updated on: Mar 05, 2019 5:27 PM IST

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Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday said there will be no alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The decision was taken in a meeting of the Delhi Congress leaders with Congress president Rahul Gandhi. (Mohd Zakir / HT Photo)

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Security forces killed two militants in an encounter in Tral in Kashmir’s Pulwama district Tuesday morning, an army spokesperson said. The encounter had begun Monday evening when security forces launched a search operation in the area following a tip off. Authorities have suspended mobile Internet services in the town. (Waseem Andrabi / HT photo)

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India’s national capital region emerged as the most polluted region in the world in 2018, a new pollution report says, with Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Noida, and Bhiwadi in the top six worst-affected cities. Air pollution is likely to cause the death of an estimated seven million lives globally in the next year while costing the world’s economy nearly $ 225 billion, the IQ AirVisual report said. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT File)

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At least 25 trains were cancelled and seven others diverted on Tuesday as thousands of protesting farmers under the banner of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) blocked railway tracks in Punjab’s Amritsar, a Northern Railways statement said. The farmers are continuing their protest of ‘Jail Bharo Andolan’ and demanding debt waivers. (PTI)

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Less than two weeks after more than 150 people, mostly tea garden workers died in the worst hooch tragedy in the state, the Assam government on Monday banned the sale and stocking of molasses which are widely used in making sulai, a country liquor. (Biju Boro / AFP File)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the 'Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Pension Yojana' (PM-SYM Scheme 2019) for unorganised workers, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (Siddharaj Solanki / HT Photo)

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Three weeks after the Pulwama terror attack, Indian Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba has warned that terrorists are being trained to carry out sea-borne attacks on India. “We also have reports of terrorists being trained to carry out operations in various modus operandi including through the medium of the sea,” Lanba said in Delhi today at the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue. (Atul Yadav / PTI File)