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India news in pictures --a roundup of today’s news across the country from Pakistan releasing Indian national Hamid Nehal Ansari from prison to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar writing to party president Rahul Gandhi, saying he is resigning from primary membership of the Indian National Congress after he was convicted and sentenced by Delhi High Court to life imprisonment in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Updated on: Dec 18, 2018 4:51 PM IST

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Fauzia Ansari (C) along with her husband Nehal Ansari (2R) and elder son Dr Khalid Ansari (2L), speaks to the media ahead of the deportation of her son Hamid Ansari from Pakistan, in Amritsar. Hamid was arrested by intelligence agencies in Pakistan in 2012 after he allegedly entered northwest Pakistan illegally to meet a woman he befriended online. He spent six years in a prison on charges of espionage. (Narinder Nanu / AFP)

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Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who was convicted and sentenced by Delhi High Court to life imprisonment in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, has written to party president Rahul Gandhi, saying he is resigning from primary membership of the Indian National Congress. (Sonu Mehta / HT Archive)

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Indian captain Virat Kohli, who has been in the news for his verbal spat with Australia captain Tim Paine during the ongoing series Down Under, has now encountered some criticism back home. Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah has called Kohli the “world’s worst behaved player” in a Facebook post, sparking a debate. (William West / AFP)

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Four transgenders draped in sarees, who were earlier denied permission to visit the Sabarimala temple on Sunday, completed their darshan of the Lord Ayyappa shrine on Tuesday after securing permission a day ago. The four devotees from Ernakulam draped in their choice of attire -- saree -- were given security cover as they started their climb from Pamba at 8 am. (PTI)

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In the first week of November, an apprehensive Indian Air Force (IAF) wrote to defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman to underline that the political controversy around the Rafale deal should not endanger the purchase of the fighters from France. Air Chief Marshal Brinder Singh Dhanoa in his letter to Sitharaman drew the government’s attention to the depleting strength of fighter squadrons of IAF which needs a minimum of 42 fighter squadrons. (PTI File)

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The death toll in Mumbai’s hospital fire shot up to eight, while another 147, mostly patients and staff, were rescued from a massive blaze that engulfed the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Hospital in Andheri (East) on Monday. The staff is seen protesting against government as well as NBCC outside the hospital at MIDC Marol, Andheri. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi kept up his attack on the BJP-led government on Tuesday saying we “won’t allow Modi to sleep” until farmers’ issues are sorted out. A day after the newly-elected Congress governments in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh waived agri loans, Gandhi said he had been highlighting the point that the main fight in India is between small traders, farmers and 15-20 wealthy businessmen. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

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The father of Hadiya, a 26-year-old Kerala woman who converted to Islam and married a Muslim man against her parents’ wishes, has joined the BJP and pledged his support for the party’s ongoing stir against the Supreme Court verdict on Sabarimala temple. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s general secretary B Gopalakrishnan gave KM Ashokan, an ex-serviceman, membership of the party on Monday. (Vipin Kumar / HT Archive)