India: Today’s news in pictures
Updated On Feb 12, 2018 05:22 PM IST
India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from fresh snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal to an attack at CRPF's camp in Srinagar's Karan Nagar area.
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Many areas in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal witnessed fresh snowfall. Kashmir’s links with the rest of the country were snapped as the arterial Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed due to the accumulation of snow around Jawahar Tunnel in the Qazigund area. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)
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A constable was killed in a gunfight that broke out in Srinagar early on Monday after the Central Reserve Police Force foiled an attack on its camp in the Karan Nagar area. The latest gunfight in the border state came on the day the army was paying tributes to five of its men who were among six people killed in an attack on its facility in Jammu’s Sunjuwan. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)
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Gundappa Viswanath who turned 69 today, was the first from India to score another century after making one on Test debut – 137 against Australia in Kanpur in 1969. After retirement he served as chairman of the national selection committee, and it was his panel that selected Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid for the 1996 tour of England where both made a big mark. (PA Images via Getty Images)
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PM Narendra Modi (R) greets Deputy Prime Minister of Oman, Sayyid Asa’ad bin Tariq Al Said in Muscat, Oman. Modi said, his visit to Oman and talks with the oil-rich Gulf nation’s top leadership will impart a “substantial momentum” to all spheres of bilateral ties. (PTI / PIB)
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A seven foot tall portrait of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in her trademark green sari was unveiled today. Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu stayed away from the unveiling ceremony in the assembly, saying the honour should not be extended to a person convicted of corruption. (PTI File Photo)
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said that its chief Mohan Bhagwat did not disrespect the army or comment on its preparation during a speech given a day earlier in Bihar’s Mirpur. (PTI File)
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