India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from the rescue of a five-year-old boy kidnapped by armed men from a school van last month to the escape of a Pakistani terrorist from a hospital in Srinagar.

Updated on: Feb 07, 2018 10:43 AM IST

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Delhi Police raided an apartment in a high-rise building in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad late on Monday and rescued Vihaan Gupta, a five-year-old boy kidnapped by armed men from a school van in east Delhi last month. The police was reportedly on the lookout for the gang of three after the boy’s family received a phone call on January 28 demanding a ransom of Rs 50 lakh. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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The blood soaked uniform of a policeman lies on the floor outside an operation theater inside a hospital in Srinagar. Two policemen were killed on Tuesday after militants attacked a government-run hospital in Srinagar that allowed a hardened Pakistani terrorist to escape, police said. (Dar Yasin / AP)

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Turkish hackers Ayyildiz Tim apparently hacked the Twitter accounts of actor Anupam Kher, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav and Rajya Sabha member Swapan Dasgupta on Tuesday after similar attacks on social media accounts of conservative American personalities last month. Messages with the words “Love Pakistan” were tweeted from the hacked accounts, causing consternation among Kher’s millions of followers. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

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At least 21 people in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao tested positive for HIV after a quack allegedly used the same syringe to administer injections to all of them, an official said. Unnao’s chief medical officer Dr SP Chaudhary said the human immunodeficiency virus cases were detected after the health department launched a probe following reports of “high number of HIV cases” in the area. (Getty Images)

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Benchmark equity index BSE Sensex slumped more than 1,200 points in early morning trade on Tuesday, its biggest fall since August 2015, tracking a huge sell-off in world equities after Wall Street logged record declines overnight. (Indranil Mukherjee / AFP)

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A classical dancer poses next to a vintage car part of a rally organized by the 21 Gun Salute Heritage and Cultural Trust in New Delhi. More than 100 hand-picked vintage and classic cars are expected to participate in the annual vintage car rally scheduled to be held on Feb. 17 and 18. (Vipin Kumar / HT Photo)

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Senior police officers pay tributes near the coffin of slain policeman Mushtaq Ahmad during his wreath laying ceremony at District Police Lines in Srinagar on Tuesday. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)