India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from World Environment Day to Allahabad University students protesting against the order to vacate hostels for summer break.

Updated on: Jun 05, 2018 5:21 PM IST

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Kashmiri boatmen manually remove weeds from the Dal Lake on the occasion of World Environment day in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. June 05 is observed as World Environment Day to raise awareness and action for the protection of the Earth’s environment. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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A Delhi court on Tuesday summoned Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on July 7 as an accused in his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death case. In a nearly 3,000-page charge sheet, the police has named Tharoor as the only accused while alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty. (HT Archive)

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Police remove residents from the Railway colony from a demonstration on the tracks after they stopped a train while protesting over acute water shortage, at Jammu Railway Station. The demonstrators said that due the water shortage has thrown routine life out of gear. (PTI)

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Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference highlighting her ministry's achievements in the last 4 years in New Delhi.“When it is an unprovoked attack the [Indian] Army was given the right to retaliate. We honour the ceasefire but of course, a margin was given to us when there is an unprovoked attack,” she said at the conference. (Shahbaz Khan / PTI)

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday questioned former finance minister P Chidambaram in a probe into the Foreign Investment Promotion Board approval to the Aircel-Maxis deals. The investigation is about how Karti Chidambaram allegedly managed to get a clearance from the FIPB in the deal when his father was the Union Finance Minister in 2006. (PTI File)

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A police jeep seen torched by Allahabad Central University students, who were protesting against the 'hostel washout' decision of the administration, in Allahabad. Hostel residents agitated following orders from the university asking them to vacate within one week’s time. A protest, staged on the roads soon turned violent. (PTI)