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India: Today’s news in pictures

India news in pictures --a roundup of today’s top news across the country from the Supreme Court scrapping the adultery law to Prime Minister Narendra Modi awarded with the UN’s highest environmental honour.

Updated on: Sep 27, 2018 5:05 PM IST

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Lawyer Kaleeswaram Raj and Thulasi K Raj leave after the Supreme Court verdict on adultery law. The apex court has scrapped adultery as a criminal offence, ruling that the 19-century law that “treats a husband as the master’, is unconstitutional. “The adultery law is arbitrary and it offends the dignity of a woman,” Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, who led the five-judge bench said. (Vijay Verma / PTI)

Updated on Sep 27, 2018 5:05 PM

Lawyer Kaleeswaram Raj and Thulasi K Raj leave after the Supreme Court verdict on adultery law. The apex court has scrapped adultery as a criminal offence, ruling that the 19-century law that “treats a husband as the master’, is unconstitutional. “The adultery law is arbitrary and it offends the dignity of a woman,” Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, who led the five-judge bench said. (Vijay Verma / PTI)

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Villagers carry the body of Mohammad Saleem Malik, a civilian, during his funeral, at Noorbagh in Srinagar. Five persons, including three militants, were killed in three separate incidents in the Kashmir Valley on Thursday. A commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit, Asif Malik alias Abu Ukasha, was killed and as news of his killing spread, a spontaneous shutdown in Anantnag followed. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

Updated on Sep 27, 2018 5:05 PM

Villagers carry the body of Mohammad Saleem Malik, a civilian, during his funeral, at Noorbagh in Srinagar. Five persons, including three militants, were killed in three separate incidents in the Kashmir Valley on Thursday. A commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit, Asif Malik alias Abu Ukasha, was killed and as news of his killing spread, a spontaneous shutdown in Anantnag followed. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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BJP lawmaker Sangeet Som survived an attack early Thursday at his residence in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh by unidentified miscreants who opened fire and hurled a grenade at the house, police said. Empty cartridges and an unpinned hand grenade have been recovered from the spot and investigation is underway to identify the assailants. (PTI)

Updated on Sep 27, 2018 5:05 PM

BJP lawmaker Sangeet Som survived an attack early Thursday at his residence in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh by unidentified miscreants who opened fire and hurled a grenade at the house, police said. Empty cartridges and an unpinned hand grenade have been recovered from the spot and investigation is underway to identify the assailants. (PTI)

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi began a two-day visit to poll-bound Madhya Pradesh Thursday with prayers at the famous Kamta Nath temple in Satna district’s Chitrakoot town. Gandhi reached Chitrakoot, a religious town closely associated with Lord Ram, from Allahabad by helicopter and stayed in the temple premises for about half-an-hour while performing the ‘puja’. (PTI)

Updated on Sep 27, 2018 5:05 PM

Congress president Rahul Gandhi began a two-day visit to poll-bound Madhya Pradesh Thursday with prayers at the famous Kamta Nath temple in Satna district’s Chitrakoot town. Gandhi reached Chitrakoot, a religious town closely associated with Lord Ram, from Allahabad by helicopter and stayed in the temple premises for about half-an-hour while performing the ‘puja’. (PTI)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded with the UN’s highest environmental honour, bestowed upon five other individuals and organisations, for his leadership of the International Solar Alliance and pledge to eliminate single use plastic in India by 2022. Six of the world’s most outstanding environmental changemakers have been recognised with the Champions of the Earth Award. (Parwaz Khan / HT File)

Updated on Sep 27, 2018 5:05 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded with the UN’s highest environmental honour, bestowed upon five other individuals and organisations, for his leadership of the International Solar Alliance and pledge to eliminate single use plastic in India by 2022. Six of the world’s most outstanding environmental changemakers have been recognised with the Champions of the Earth Award. (Parwaz Khan / HT File)

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The Supreme Court has declined to set up a larger bench to revisit a 1994 verdict which held that a “mosque is not an essential to the practise of Islam”, ruling that the top court had made the observation in the limited context of acquisition of land. “All mosques, all churches and temples are significant for the community,” the three-judge bench said in a 2:1 majority decision. (Samir Jana / HT File)

Updated on Sep 27, 2018 5:05 PM

The Supreme Court has declined to set up a larger bench to revisit a 1994 verdict which held that a “mosque is not an essential to the practise of Islam”, ruling that the top court had made the observation in the limited context of acquisition of land. “All mosques, all churches and temples are significant for the community,” the three-judge bench said in a 2:1 majority decision. (Samir Jana / HT File)

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As many as 69 people, including 18 foreign nationals, were evacuated from various places in snow-bound Lahaul-Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh by Thursday afternoon. The foreigners comprised three Germans, four Danes, two Norwegians, eight Nepalese and one from Bhutan while the remaining rescued people were Indians from different parts of the country. (PTI File)

Updated on Sep 27, 2018 5:05 PM

As many as 69 people, including 18 foreign nationals, were evacuated from various places in snow-bound Lahaul-Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh by Thursday afternoon. The foreigners comprised three Germans, four Danes, two Norwegians, eight Nepalese and one from Bhutan while the remaining rescued people were Indians from different parts of the country. (PTI File)

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