India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s news across the country, from the swearing in of Goa's 11th chief minister Pramod Sawant, to the second day of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi’s ‘Ganga Yatra’ in Uttar Pradesh.

Updated on: Mar 19, 2019 5:03 PM IST

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Newly-sworn in Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant has said he will take forward the legacy of his predecessor Manohar Parrikar as he admitted he had a “big responsibility” before him. Parrikar, who was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in February last year, died on Sunday evening. Sawant was sworn in early Tuesday morning. (PTI)

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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi sharpened her attack at the Modi government asking it to stop blaming the Congress-led governments of the past and talk about what the present government has done in the last five years. “Their argument that ‘what did they do in 70 years’ has an expiry date. Now they (BJP) should tell what they have done in their five years during which they have been in power,” she said. (Rajesh Kumar / HT Photo)

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Aviation minister Suresh Prabhu on Tuesday directed his ministry’s secretary to hold an emergency meeting on the debt-ridden Jet Airways massively cancelling flights after grounding of a large part of its fleet. The meeting will be held later this evening. (Sunil Ghosh / HT File)

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Nationalist Congress Party boss Sharad Pawar on Tuesday stepped in to help Rahul Gandhi’s Congress and Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party work out an alliance in the national capital for the Lok Sabha elections. Pawar also reached out to AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh soon after. (Kunal Patil / HT File)

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National Security Advisor Ajit Doval awarded personnel during the Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPF) 80th Anniversary Parade at Kadarpur CRPF camp in Gurugram. (Parveen Kumar / HT Photo)

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Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Tuesday that his government has changed the image of the state and its law and order has become a model for the country as not one incident of rioting happened under his watch. (Subhankar Chakraborty / HT Photo)

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A Delhi court on Tuesday extended Robert Vadra’s anticipatory bail in a money laundering case till March 25 and asked him to join the probe in the matter after the Enforcement Directorate said he was required for custodial interrogation. (Burhaan Kinu / HT File)