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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 heavy to very heavy rain expected to his isolated parts of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, coastal & south interior Karnataka and Kerala to the death of JP Vaswani (aged 99), spiritual leader and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission

Updated on: Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM IST

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Rain drops are seen on the window of a car as a woman sells umbrellas at a traffic intersection in Hyderabad. Heavy to very heavy rain is expected to hit isolated parts of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, coastal & south interior Karnataka and Kerala. (Mahesh Kumar A / AP)

Updated on Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM

Rain drops are seen on the window of a car as a woman sells umbrellas at a traffic intersection in Hyderabad. Heavy to very heavy rain is expected to hit isolated parts of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, coastal & south interior Karnataka and Kerala. (Mahesh Kumar A / AP)

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BJP national president Amit Shah today had a brief meeting with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over breakfast, during which the two leaders are understood to have discussed the prevailing political situation in view of the Lok Sabha polls due next year. Shah is scheduled to hold meetings with party functionaries during his day-long visit and meet Kumar again over dinner before retiring for the day. (PTI)

Updated on Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM

BJP national president Amit Shah today had a brief meeting with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over breakfast, during which the two leaders are understood to have discussed the prevailing political situation in view of the Lok Sabha polls due next year. Shah is scheduled to hold meetings with party functionaries during his day-long visit and meet Kumar again over dinner before retiring for the day. (PTI)

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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has issued a stern warning to school authorities who allegedly confined 16 kindergarten children in a basement over non-payment of fees and said a probe would be ordered into the matter. He visited the school along with his deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has issued a stern warning to school authorities who allegedly confined 16 kindergarten children in a basement over non-payment of fees and said a probe would be ordered into the matter. He visited the school along with his deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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Once the criminality of consensual gay sex goes away, then related issues like social stigma and discrimination against the LGBTQ community will also go, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. A five-judge constitution bench, hearing petitions seeking decriminalisation of the colonial Section 377 of the IPC, said discrimination has also adversely impacted the community’s mental health. (Gurinder Osan / AP file)

Updated on Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM

Once the criminality of consensual gay sex goes away, then related issues like social stigma and discrimination against the LGBTQ community will also go, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. A five-judge constitution bench, hearing petitions seeking decriminalisation of the colonial Section 377 of the IPC, said discrimination has also adversely impacted the community’s mental health. (Gurinder Osan / AP file)

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Two IndiGo aircraft with nearly 330 passengers on board avoided a collision over Bengaluru after an automatically generated warning alerted the pilots, prompting authorities to launch a probe into the incident. A news agency quoted unnamed sources saying that the vertical separation between the two aircraft was only about 200 feet and a mid-air collision was averted after the TCAS alarms went off. (Gurminder Singh / HT File)

Updated on Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM

Two IndiGo aircraft with nearly 330 passengers on board avoided a collision over Bengaluru after an automatically generated warning alerted the pilots, prompting authorities to launch a probe into the incident. A news agency quoted unnamed sources saying that the vertical separation between the two aircraft was only about 200 feet and a mid-air collision was averted after the TCAS alarms went off. (Gurminder Singh / HT File)

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Financially empowered women are a “bulwark against societal evils”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday while interacting with more than one crore women associated with various self-help groups across the country. Underlining the importance of women empowerment, especially in rural areas, Modi said women in the country have huge potential and need to realise their capabilities. (Sanjeev Kumar / HT File)

Updated on Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM

Financially empowered women are a “bulwark against societal evils”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday while interacting with more than one crore women associated with various self-help groups across the country. Underlining the importance of women empowerment, especially in rural areas, Modi said women in the country have huge potential and need to realise their capabilities. (Sanjeev Kumar / HT File)

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The Supreme Court on Thursday rapped the office of the Lt. Governor of Delhi for not taking enough effective measures to handle the garbage issue despite having powers over the municipal corporations. A bench of justices MB Lokur and Deepak Gupta snubbed the L-G after his affidavit asserted that the municipal corporations of Delhi were answerable to him. (Raj K Raj / HT File)

Updated on Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM

The Supreme Court on Thursday rapped the office of the Lt. Governor of Delhi for not taking enough effective measures to handle the garbage issue despite having powers over the municipal corporations. A bench of justices MB Lokur and Deepak Gupta snubbed the L-G after his affidavit asserted that the municipal corporations of Delhi were answerable to him. (Raj K Raj / HT File)

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Dada JP Vaswani, spiritual leader and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission, died in Pune on Thursday morning ahead of his 100th birthday next month. Born on August 2, 1918, in Hyderabad in Pakistan’s Sindh to a pious Sindhi family, Vaswani had been in the hospital for a few days. (PTI File)

Updated on Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM

Dada JP Vaswani, spiritual leader and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission, died in Pune on Thursday morning ahead of his 100th birthday next month. Born on August 2, 1918, in Hyderabad in Pakistan’s Sindh to a pious Sindhi family, Vaswani had been in the hospital for a few days. (PTI File)

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Thirteen Amarnath pilgrims were injured when their vehicle rammed into a stationary truck on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, a police official said. According to officials, the pilgrims were part of a convoy carrying a fresh batch of 3,419 pilgrims including 680 women and 201 ‘sadhus’ from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp to Kashmir to undertake the annual pilgrimage. (PTI File)

Updated on Jul 12, 2018 5:12 PM

Thirteen Amarnath pilgrims were injured when their vehicle rammed into a stationary truck on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, a police official said. According to officials, the pilgrims were part of a convoy carrying a fresh batch of 3,419 pilgrims including 680 women and 201 ‘sadhus’ from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp to Kashmir to undertake the annual pilgrimage. (PTI File)

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