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India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from Mumbai police denying Jignesh Mewani permission to address students at Vile Parle to the triple talaq bill debate in Rajya Sabha.

Updated on: Jan 04, 2018 3:41 PM IST

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Sachin Bansode, Mumbai president of Chhatra Bharati is taken into police custody at Vile Parel, Mumbai. Police denied activist-legislator Jignesh Mewani permission to address students at Vile Parle on Thursday, a day after Mumbai bandh. Authorities detained the organisers of the proposed rally and imposed Section 144 of the IPC to prevent assembly at the spot. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

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A bill to ban instant triple talaq --the uttering of talaq thrice under Muslim law-- was tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday resulting in a slugfest between the Congress and the BJP. During today’s Parliamentary session, Congress said the bill, if implemented sans amendments could harm many families. (PTI / TV Grab)

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A woman looks out from the window of a residential building in Mumbai’s Andheri East after it was partially damaged in an early morning fire which claimed the lives of four people, including two children and left five injured. (Rafiq Maqbool / AP)

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Heavy fog shrouded the national capital yet again on Thursday morning, delaying about 20 flights and 49 trains, according to reports. As many as 13 trains were also rescheduled and 12 cancelled due to foggy conditions. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)

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The Border Security Force (BSF) officers during Head Constable R. P. Hazra’s wreath-laying ceremony in Jammu. He was killed by a Pakistani sniper on Wednesday in unprovoked firing at the international border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba sector, triggering a heavy gun fight between the two countries. (Nitin Kanotra / HT Photo)

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A special CBI court is expected to pronounce a quantum of sentence on Rashtriya Janta Dal Chief Lalu Yadav in the fodder scam case on Thursday. (Parwaz Khan / HT Photo)