India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country, from Congress national general secretary and in-charge of east Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi’s ‘Ganga Yatra’, to the speculation of the next chief minister of Goa after Manohar Parrikar’s demise.

Updated on: Mar 18, 2019 5:18 PM IST

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Congress national general secretary and in-charge of east Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi began her party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha election 2019 with a ‘Ganga Abhishek’ and prayers at a temple in Allahabad in the morning. As part of her ‘Ganga Yatra’, she will make stopovers at villages located near the river’s banks. She will meet people in these villages to better understand their hardships, aspirations and expectations. (Sheeraz Rizvi / HT Photo)

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The ruling BJP in Goa that has been struggling to arrive at a consensus over Manohar Parrikar’s successor on Monday said it was close to reaching a decision on the next Goa chief minister. Parrikar, 63, died last evening at his Panaji house and will be accorded a state funeral with full military honours at 5 pm. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Archive)

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One person is missing and six others were rescued after a tug boat capsized Monday morning in the Arabian Sea off the Worli coast in Mumbai, police said. The tug boat “Revati” was carrying seven persons, and a Coast Guard helicopter, an inshore patrol vessel and personnel from Mumbai police’s coastal unit were deployed for the rescue effort. (Satish Bate / HT File / Representative)

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Uttar Pradesh alliance partners BSP’s Mayawati and SP’s Akhilesh, in a strong snub for the Congress, said on Monday that their combine was strong enough to defeat the BJP in politically important Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The two leaders’ statement came a day after the Congress said it was leaving seven of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh for the SP-BSP combine. (Subhankar Chakraborty / HT File)

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Rising military tensions between Indian and Pakistan after the February 14 Pulwama suicide car bombing led the Indian Navy to cut short a major exercise in the Indian Ocean region and swiftly redeploy its frontline assets to the north Arabian Sea for operations, the navy said in a rare announcement. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT File)

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Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik announced the first list of BJD candidates for 9 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats and 54 of the 147 assembly seats in the state in Bhubaneshwar. (Arabinda Mahapatra / HT Photo)

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India’s government spending on health in 2015-16 was 1.17% of the gross domestic product, according to a Union ministry report. The government wants to improve the expenditure to 2.5% by 2025 to meet Sustainable Development Goals. The union ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) released the National Indicator Framework Baseline Report that includes 41 indicators to track the country’s health and well-being. (Sakib Ali / HT Archive)

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Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday ordered expunging of adverse remarks by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in the annual confidential report of IAS officer Ashok Khemka. Khemka, who is the principal secretary of the state sports department, had moved the court in January seeking removal from his 2016-17 report the remarks made by Khattar. (Keshav Singh / HT Archive)