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India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the Taj Mahal to the Supreme court deeming Khap panchayats ruling against inter-caste marriages among adults illegal.

Updated on: Jan 16, 2018 5:27 PM IST

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and wife Sara visit the Taj Mahal in Agra on Tuesday, a day after New Delhi and Tel Aviv signed nine pacts to boost bilateral ties in strategic areas. Ahead of Netanyahu’s visit, the local administration put the Taj under a security lockdown with Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath receiving Netanyahu in Agra. (PTI)

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Haj pilgrims at Taj-ul-Masajid transit point before leaving for Haj in Bhopal, India. There will be no subsidy for Haj pilgrims from this year, minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Tuesday. Naqvi told reporters that despite the subsidy withdrawal, a record number of 1.75 lakh Muslims will undertake the pilgrimage this year from India. (Mujeeb Faruqui / HT File)

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Moshe Holtzberg (C), who survived the 26/11 siege at Nariman House in Mumbai but lost his parents in it, arrived in the city on Tuesday morning for the first time since their death. Moshe said he would visit the Jewish centre in Colaba where his parents, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, were killed in the terror attacks in November 2008, and pray there. (PTI)

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Justice Dipak Misra speaks on National Law day at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. The Supreme Court said on Tuesday, any attack against an adult man and woman opting for an inter-caste marriage by khap panchayats or associations is “absolutely illegal”. “If an adult man and woman marry, no khap, panchayat or society can question them,” a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said. (Sushil Kumar / HT File)

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Icicles formed by the leakage of a water pipe are seen in Tanmarg, about 34 kms north of Srinagar, India. Minimum temperatures dropped again in Jammu and Srinagar on Tuesday due to nightlong cloud cover, sending chilly wind from snow-clad mountains, the Met Office said. At minus 19 degree Celsius, Kargil recorded the lowest temperature in Jammu and Kashmir followed by Leh at minus 13.8 degree Celsius. (Waseem Andrabi / HT File)

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VHP leader Pravin Togadia during a press conference at Chandramani Hospital in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. A tearful Togadia, 62, charged that “some people” were trying to stifle his voice and that he was not allowed to speak on issues like Ram Temple, farmers and cow slaughter. He also said that he went into hiding fearing a police encounter. (Santosh Hirlekar / PTI)