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India news in pictures -- From thousands of farmers and tribals starting a two-day march towards Mumbai from a suburb of Maharashtra’s capital, eight months after a similar protest to a tourist killed by arrows from an uncontacted protected tribe living on Andaman's North Sentinel Island after venturing onto the island.

Updated on: Nov 21, 2018 5:18 PM IST

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Demanding the implementation of measures promised by the government, thousands of farmers and tribals started a two-day march towards Mumbai on Wednesday, eight months after a similar protest. The farmers started walking towards the Azad Maidan on Wednesday to put forth their demands to the BJP-led state government, ahead of the general election next year. More than 5,000 farmers and tribals had gathered at the Anandnagar Octroi Naka in Mulund since Tuesday night. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

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An American tourist was killed by arrows shot by protected tribesmen living in the remote North Sentinel Island in the Andaman islands, AFP reports quoting police. John Chau, 27, had taken a boat ride with local fishermen before venturing alone in a canoe to the island where the indigenous people live cut off completely from the outside world. (Desha-Kalyan Chowdhury / AFP File)

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In an indication of a grand alliance shaping up in Jammu and Kashmir, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the Congress and regional parties Peoples Democratic Party and National Conference are in talks to explore the possibility of forming a government in the state, reports ANI. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Archive)

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Delhi’s air quality worsened further on Tuesday with pollution shooting up primarily because of local emissions such as vehicular fumes. According to officials, adverse weather conditions are also aggravating the situation. Safar, a pollution forecasting agency, has forecast that AQI levels would continue to remain in the very poor category at least over the next two or three days. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

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The Mumbai Police has registered a case against actor Alok Nath on a complaint filed by a TV writer-producer, who during the recent #MeToo campaign accused him of rape nearly two decades ago. The case was filed under under section 376 of IPC (rape). She had earlier alleged that Nath had all her shows shut down, leading to the closure of her production company. (HT Archive)

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi and former finance minister P Chidambaram fired another salvo at PM Modi over his sudden decision to ban high-value currency notes that, they said, has hurt farmers and destroyed small industries. “The truth, Mr Prime Minister, is that you used note ban as a ‘tez’ (bitter) medicine to destroy MSME. Now, Government wants RBI to revive that sector!,” Chidambaram wrote, in a tweet (Samir Jana / HT Archive)

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Actor Akshay Kumar appeared before the special investigation team (SIT) probing the firing on Sikh protesters by police in Punjab, three years ago after a series of incidents of sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib. Though Kumar does not have any direct link with the case, the SIT wants to examine him as his name was mentioned in a report on sacrilege incidents, tabled in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha in August. (Ravi Kumar / HT Photo)