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India: Today’s news in pictures
India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping meeting at the Hubei Museum in Wuhan to Indrani Mukerjea, accused in the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora, filling a divorce from her co-accused husband Peter.
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PM Narendra Modi (C) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose with performers at the Hubei Museum in Wuhan. Modi drew parallels between India and China during a one-to-one meeting with Xi Jinping at the museum. “The culture of both India and China is based along the river banks. If we talk about Mohenjo Daro and Harappa civilizations in India, all the development happened along river banks,” he told Xi during the interaction. (PIB / AFP)
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Indrani Mukerjea has sought divorce from her husband Peter, marking the beginning of the end of a marriage, after both partners were accused of being involved in the murder of Indrani’s daughter from a previous marriage, Sheena Bora. (PTI File)
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Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday released the party’s election manifesto for the Karnataka Assembly polls that promises creation of one crore jobs over five years. Gandhi described the manifesto as the “voice of the people of Karnataka” and not a document prepared by “three or four people in a closed room”. (PTI)
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Seven Maoists, including five women, were gunned down by security forces in Bijapur’s Ipenta forest. “The operation, which is still ongoing, was launched jointly by the Chhattisgarh and Telangana police. While seven bodies have been recovered so far, more are likely to emerge,” deputy inspector general (Bastar) Sundaraj P said. (Mustafa Quraishi / AP File)
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Less than a week after the Criminal Law (Amendment) ordinance, 2018 -- which provides for death penalty for those convicted of raping a girl below 12 years -- was promulgated, the Union women and child development (WCD) ministry is set to move the Cabinet seeking approval for the same punishment for those guilty of sexually abusing young boys of the same age. (Danish Siddiqui / REUTERS File)
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Resident doctors of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) raise slogans during an indefinite strike after a colleague was assaulted by a senior doctor, in New Delhi. (Kamal Singh / PTI)
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Senior advocate Indu Malhotra was administered the oath of office as a Supreme Court judge by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, making her the first woman lawyer to enter the top judiciary directly. With Malhotra joining the bench, the strength of the Supreme Court is now 25, against the sanctioned strength of 31, including the CJI. (Altaf Qadri / AP File)
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