India: Today’s news in pictures

By HT Correspondent

Updated On Jun 29, 2018 05:26 pm IST

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from a hold up of the Amarnath pilgrimage in Kashmir after heavy rains damaged the tracks to the launch of various healthcare projects by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at AIIMS in New Delhi.

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On Friday morning, the pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath from Baltal base camp in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district was again suspended after heavy rains damaged the tracks. “We are keeping our fingers crossed and won’t allow the pilgrims unless the track is safe,” Ganderbal deputy commissioner Piyush Singla said. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

Updated on Jun 29, 2018 05:26 pm IST

On Friday morning, the pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath from Baltal base camp in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district was again suspended after heavy rains damaged the tracks. “We are keeping our fingers crossed and won’t allow the pilgrims unless the track is safe,” Ganderbal deputy commissioner Piyush Singla said. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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Union finance minister Piyush Goya said that the government will get all data on black money or illegal transaction from Switzerland by the end of fiscal 2019. His statement comes a day after Switzerland released data showing money parked by Indians in Swiss banks rose over 50% to 1.01 billion CHF (Rs 7,000 crore) in 2017, reversing a three-year downward trend. (Vijay Verma / PTI File)

Updated on Jun 29, 2018 05:26 pm IST

Union finance minister Piyush Goya said that the government will get all data on black money or illegal transaction from Switzerland by the end of fiscal 2019. His statement comes a day after Switzerland released data showing money parked by Indians in Swiss banks rose over 50% to 1.01 billion CHF (Rs 7,000 crore) in 2017, reversing a three-year downward trend. (Vijay Verma / PTI File)

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All Assam Students Union activists take part in ‘Gana Satyagraha’ protest rally against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016, in Guwahati, Assam. (PTI)

Updated on Jun 29, 2018 05:26 pm IST

All Assam Students Union activists take part in ‘Gana Satyagraha’ protest rally against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016, in Guwahati, Assam. (PTI)

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One militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Trehgam of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Reports of another encounter came in from Pulwama’s Chatapora. The militants are reportedly trapped in a residential building. (PTI File)

Updated on Jun 29, 2018 05:26 pm IST

One militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Trehgam of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Reports of another encounter came in from Pulwama’s Chatapora. The militants are reportedly trapped in a residential building. (PTI File)

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Hours before the 12-seater aircraft crashed in a crowded Mumbai suburb on Thursday, maintenance engineer Surabhi Gupta - among the five killed in the incident- told her father in Sonepat over phone that she was going to fly in a “sick aircraft”. The aircraft crashed in Ghatkopar in Mumbai, killing both pilots and two maintenance engineers on board, besides a pedestrian. (PTI)

Updated on Jun 29, 2018 05:26 pm IST

Hours before the 12-seater aircraft crashed in a crowded Mumbai suburb on Thursday, maintenance engineer Surabhi Gupta - among the five killed in the incident- told her father in Sonepat over phone that she was going to fly in a “sick aircraft”. The aircraft crashed in Ghatkopar in Mumbai, killing both pilots and two maintenance engineers on board, besides a pedestrian. (PTI)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the launch of various healthcare projects at AIIMS in New Delhi.“We want to provide the best healthcare to our people at the lowest possible cost. We have proposed and approved more numbers of AIIMS than it was done in the past 70 years,” Modi said. (PTI)

Updated on Jun 29, 2018 05:26 pm IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the launch of various healthcare projects at AIIMS in New Delhi.“We want to provide the best healthcare to our people at the lowest possible cost. We have proposed and approved more numbers of AIIMS than it was done in the past 70 years,” Modi said. (PTI)

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Chief of Army Staff, General Bipin Rawat interacts with students from Jammu and Kashmir on National Integration/Educational Tour organised by the Army, in New Delhi. “Our basic purpose is to go after terrorists who create violence and disturbance in the Valley. Our aim is not to cause inconvenience to civilian population who are not indulging in arson or violence,” Rawat said. (PTI)

Updated on Jun 29, 2018 05:26 pm IST

Chief of Army Staff, General Bipin Rawat interacts with students from Jammu and Kashmir on National Integration/Educational Tour organised by the Army, in New Delhi. “Our basic purpose is to go after terrorists who create violence and disturbance in the Valley. Our aim is not to cause inconvenience to civilian population who are not indulging in arson or violence,” Rawat said. (PTI)

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