Rains wreak havoc in Pune and Durga Puja preparations: India this week

From the aftermath of torrential rainfall in Pune to preparations for the upcoming Durga Puja festival; a roundup of top photos from across the country.

Updated on: Sep 29, 2019 3:35 PM IST

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Aftermath of flash floods in Gururaj society, Satara road in Pune, Maharashtra. (Sanket Wankhade / HT Photo)

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Fishermen prepare to cast their net in the Yamuna river, in New Delhi. (Arun Sharma / PTI)

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Deepak Punia wins the silver medal in the men’s 86kg category during the Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. (AP)

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Cloudy weather at Marine Drive in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Kunal Patil / HT Photo)

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BJP Working President JP Nadda and Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan clean the statue of Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay on his birth anniversary, at DDU Park, in New Delhi. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

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Youths take part in a torch-protest march against abrogation of Article 370 and reorganisation of the Jammu and Kashmir state into two Union Territories, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (S. Irfan / PTI)

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The illuminated Safdarjung Tomb, in New Delhi. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

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A man plays Ravanahatha, a traditional stringed instrument in Pushkar, Rajasthan. (PTI)

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The Rashtrapati Bhavan is silhouetted during sunset, in New Delhi. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

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Dark clouds hover over the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, Punjab. (PTI)

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NCP leader Sharad Pawar drops his plan to go to Enforcement Directorate (ED) office after addressing the media, at Silver Oak, Bhulabhai Desai Road in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

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A tomb at Tauru, Nuh district, in Gurugram, Haryana. The Department of Archaeology and Museums, Haryana, has proposed to take a tomb complex comprising seven tombs from the 14th to 15th century AD under state protection. (Parveen Kumar / HT Photo)

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Two mongooses play under a clear sky, in Patna, Bihar. (Parwaz Khan / HT Photo)

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A farmer ploughs a field with a tractor near Prakasham Barrage in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. (PTI)

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the media during a press conference after her meeting private sector banks and other financial institutions, in New Delhi. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

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An artist makes a wall mural with the collaboration of BMC on the wall of Ismail Yusuf college at Jugeshwari East in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

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Traffic congestion due to a farmers’ protest, at Udyog Marg, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. (Sunil Ghosh / HT Photo)

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Students celebrate the 112th birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh in Hyderabad, Telangana. (PTI)

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A portion of a five storey building collapsed at 13th cross, Khar West in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

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Participants dressed in traditional attire pose for pictures during rehearsals for Garba, a folk dance, in preparations for the upcoming Navratri, a festival during which devotees worship the Hindu goddess Durga, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (Amit Dave / REUTERS)

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Kushagra Rawat flashes the victory sigh after winning India’s first individual gold medal at the 10th Asian Age Group Championships at the Padukone-Dravid Centre of Sports Excellence, in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (PTI)

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Children walk through a water-logged road during heavy rain in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP)

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Patients wade through floodwaters on their way to hospital during heavy monsoon rain in Patna, Bihar. (Sachin Kumar / AFP)

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during commissioning of INS Khanderi in Indian Navy at Naval Dock in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

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Devotees perform ‘Tarpan’ rituals to pay obedience to their forefathers on the last day of ‘Pitru Paksha’, or days for offering prayers to ancestors, on the banks of the Ganges river in Kolkata, West Bengal.. (Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP)

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Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb interacts with Mijanur Rehman from Sonamura, in Agartala, Tripura. Rehman, who was bedridden for past seven years, was helped by local party workers to make an Ayushman Bharat Card through which he has been able to undergo treatment in NIMHANS Bangalore. (PTI)

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IAF’s Garud Commando Force rehearse in the backdrop of AN-32 aircraft for the upcoming Air Force Day, which is to be held on October 08, in Vadodara, Gujarat. (PTI)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at people on his arrival from USA, at Palam Technical area, in New Delhi. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

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A sand sculpture of singer Lata Mangeshkar created by sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik, on the occasion of her 90th birthday in Puri, Odisha. (PTI)

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An artisan applies finishing touches to a decorative ceiling of a pandal or a temporary platform during preparations for the upcoming festival of Durga Puja in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Rupak De Chowdhuri / REUTERS)