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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 ruling that no woman can be stopped from entering Sabarimala temple to the Indian Air Force airlifting 26 more people from Himachal Pradesh’s snow-marooned Lahaul Valley.

Updated on: Sep 28, 2018 4:50 PM IST

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No woman can be stopped from entering Sabarimala temple, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, ending a traditional ban on the entry of women between 10 and 50 years of age to the hilltop shrine in Kerala. “Religion can’t become a cover to exclude and deny basic right to worship... nor can physiology be a reason,” the top court’s five judge bench said in a 4:1 majority verdict. (Dipak Kumar / REUTERS File)

Updated on Sep 28, 2018 4:50 PM

No woman can be stopped from entering Sabarimala temple, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, ending a traditional ban on the entry of women between 10 and 50 years of age to the hilltop shrine in Kerala. “Religion can’t become a cover to exclude and deny basic right to worship... nor can physiology be a reason,” the top court’s five judge bench said in a 4:1 majority verdict. (Dipak Kumar / REUTERS File)

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday resumed its rescue operation on the fourth day and airlifted 26 people from Himachal Pradesh’s snow-marooned Lahaul Valley. The total number of people rescued since September 24 rose to over 1,350, including over 30 foreigners. They were stranded for nearly a week in Chotta Dara near the Kunzum Pass area. (IAF Handout / PTI)

Updated on Sep 28, 2018 4:50 PM

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday resumed its rescue operation on the fourth day and airlifted 26 people from Himachal Pradesh’s snow-marooned Lahaul Valley. The total number of people rescued since September 24 rose to over 1,350, including over 30 foreigners. They were stranded for nearly a week in Chotta Dara near the Kunzum Pass area. (IAF Handout / PTI)

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The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the arrest of five rights activists, saying there was prima facie material to show that they had links to a banned Maoist group. Rejecting a request to set up a special team to probe the activists, the court said the accused do not have a say in deciding which agency should investigate them and told Maharashtra Police to go ahead with the probe. (Sonu Mehta / HT File)

Updated on Sep 28, 2018 4:50 PM

The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the arrest of five rights activists, saying there was prima facie material to show that they had links to a banned Maoist group. Rejecting a request to set up a special team to probe the activists, the court said the accused do not have a say in deciding which agency should investigate them and told Maharashtra Police to go ahead with the probe. (Sonu Mehta / HT File)

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Abhilash Tomy, 39, is now recovering from a back injury he suffered while negotiating a deadly storm that left his yacht, SV Thuriya, crippled last week. He was participating in this year’s Golden Globe Race (GGR), a circumnavigation race involving solo participants, and which bars the use of modern technology. (Navy Handout / PTI)

Updated on Sep 28, 2018 4:50 PM

Abhilash Tomy, 39, is now recovering from a back injury he suffered while negotiating a deadly storm that left his yacht, SV Thuriya, crippled last week. He was participating in this year’s Golden Globe Race (GGR), a circumnavigation race involving solo participants, and which bars the use of modern technology. (Navy Handout / PTI)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday attended a Combined Commanders’ conference in Jodhpur, Rajasthan to commemorate the second anniversary of the cross-Line of Control (LoC) “surgical strikes” carried out against militant launch pads in Pakistan. (PTI)

Updated on Sep 28, 2018 4:50 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday attended a Combined Commanders’ conference in Jodhpur, Rajasthan to commemorate the second anniversary of the cross-Line of Control (LoC) “surgical strikes” carried out against militant launch pads in Pakistan. (PTI)

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Nationalist Congress Party leader Tariq Anwar resigned from the Lok Sabha and his party on Friday, citing party chief Sharad Pawar’s stand on the Rafale aircraft deal with France. Anwar, who was the NCP’s only Lok Sabha member in Bihar, said that he was upset with Pawar’s statement on the deal at a time when the entire opposition had united to demand a probe into the deal. (Atul Yadav / PTI File)

Updated on Sep 28, 2018 4:50 PM

Nationalist Congress Party leader Tariq Anwar resigned from the Lok Sabha and his party on Friday, citing party chief Sharad Pawar’s stand on the Rafale aircraft deal with France. Anwar, who was the NCP’s only Lok Sabha member in Bihar, said that he was upset with Pawar’s statement on the deal at a time when the entire opposition had united to demand a probe into the deal. (Atul Yadav / PTI File)

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The information and broadcasting ministry has issued a direction to public broadcasters, Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR), to run messages through their medium to caution people about the consequences of mob lynching. As per the order, a scroll on television and messages on radio will caution people that “mob lynching will invite serious consequences under the law”. (Amit Dave / REUTERS File)

Updated on Sep 28, 2018 4:50 PM

The information and broadcasting ministry has issued a direction to public broadcasters, Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR), to run messages through their medium to caution people about the consequences of mob lynching. As per the order, a scroll on television and messages on radio will caution people that “mob lynching will invite serious consequences under the law”. (Amit Dave / REUTERS File)

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