India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country, from the Supreme Court’s order for mediation in the Ayodhya title suit, to the crash of an MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force in Rajasthan’s Bikaner.

Updated on: Mar 08, 2019 5:39 PM IST

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The Supreme Court on Friday ordered mediation in the Ayodhya title suit. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi passed the order to this effect. Mediation will start within a week at Faizabad and the state of UP has to make arrangements, the Supreme Court ruled. The mediation panel has to give its report within four weeks. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)

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A MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed in Rajasthan’s Bikaner on Friday. The plane crashed after it reportedly suffered a bird hit. The plane had taken off from Nal near Bikaner. The pilot is said to have ejected safely. (Shailendra Bhojak / PTI File)

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The sprawling Alibaug seaside mansion of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, accused in the USD 2 billion PNB fraud case, was demolished Friday using explosives, Raigad District Collector Vijay Suryawanshi said. (PTI)

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Samajwadi Party chief patron Mulayam Singh Yadav will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri, a constituency he has represented four times in the past. The party released its first list of six candidates -- three general and an equal number of reserved seats -- for the elections that are expected to be notified soon. (Arvind Yadav / HT File)

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Indian players sport camouflage caps as they wait for a decision during the third ODI cricket match between India and Australia in Ranchi. Members and the support staff of Indian cricket team wore the caps as a mark of tribute to the paramilitary soldiers killed in suicide car bombing in Kashmir last month and to encourage all donations to the National Defence Fund. (Aijaz Rahi / AP)

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A controversy erupted following the Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s at Moga rally on Thursday after Punjab local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu was not included in the list of speakers. A miffed Sidhu said it was the first time after former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s rally in Amritsar in 2004 that he has not been allowed to speak. Sidhu was then Amritsar MP from the BJP. (Sameer Sehgal / HT File)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said there is panic among the terror groups on the account of decisive action taken by India across the border. “The terrorists are in panic. It is for this reason that another terror attack happened in Jammu,” Modi said. (PTI)