India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country, from India dropping seven places in this year's UN World Happiness Report to figure among the lowest 20 of the 156 nations ranked to Pakistan deciding not to build structures on land near Gurdwara Darbar Sahib acting on Navjot Singh Sidhu's request.

Updated on: Mar 21, 2019 2:06 PM IST

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Indians are not as happy as they were last year and the country figured among the lowest 20 of the 156 nations ranked on this year’s UN World Happiness Report. India came in 140th this year, dropping seven places from 133 last year. As a result, India featured in the five countries that had the largest drop since 2005-2008 in the index, along with Yemen, Syria, Botswana and Venezuela. (Raj K Raj / HT Archive)

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The Income Tax Department has attached properties worth rupees 226 crore of retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Net Ram, principal secretary to Mayawati during one of her stints as Uttar Pradesh chief minister. A total of 20 properties were attached. The searches also resulted in seizure of cash of rupees 2.03 crore and jewellery worth rupees 17.79 lakh, apart from incriminating documents. (PTI / Representative Image)

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Acting on a request from Indian politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Pakistan government has decided not to construct structures on land near Gurdwara Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur that was used by Guru Nanak for farming. Pakistan information minister Fawad Chaudhry said this decision was taken on Tuesday to review progress in work on the Kartarpur Corridor, which will be opened to Indian pilgrims in November. (K.M. Chaudary / AP File)

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Two policemen were injured in a grenade attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town on Thursday. The incident took place around 10.30 am. The Station House Officer (SHO) of Dangiwacha and his escort were injured, police said. Militants lobbed a grenade at a security forces party at main chowk area of Sopore, PTI quoted a police official as saying. (Mukhtar Khan / AP File)

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Christian Michel, 58, the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland deal has demanded that he be served a European breakfast, wanted his prison space changed three times, and said he is being treated like a monkey in a zoo. He has complained of inmates defecating in the open and of him having to do it, too. Michel’s litany of complaints has made him Tihar jail’s most demanding inmate, prison officers say. (Raj K Raj / HT File)

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The China-led regional security bloc, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has said India and Pakistan should resolve their differences in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack bilaterally, cautioning them against any spillover of the animosity in the group. India and Pakistan also have to remain committed to fighting terrorism, the newly appointed SCO secretary-general, Vladimir Norov said. (Younis Khaliq / REUTERS File)

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An Army soldier was killed when Pakistan violated ceasefire by heavily shelling forward areas and posts with mortar bombs along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district Thursday, officials said. Pakistani troops violated ceasefire in Keri belt of Sunderbani sector this morning, they said. (PTI File)