Sindhu clinches world championship and Marbat celebrations: India this week

From PV Sindhu’s historic win at the BWF Badminton World Championships to the celebration of Marbat, a festival unique to the city of Nagpur; a roundup of top photos from across the country.

Updated on: Sep 01, 2019 4:11 PM IST

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PV Sindhu celebrates after winning against Japan's Nozomi Okuhara during their women's singles final match at the BWF Badminton World Championships at the St Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland. Sindhu became the first Indian to win a gold at the championship. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

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A pole vaulter in action during the 59th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships, at PAC Ground, Mahanagar, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. (Deepak Gupta / HT Photo)

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A National Register of Citizens (NRC) officer takes a photograph of the eyes of a boy at an NRC centre on the eve of the release of the final NRC draft in Guwahati, Assam. (Anupam Nath / AP)

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Sikh devotees carry Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, the holy book of the Sikhs, in a golden palanquin at the Golden Temple during a religious procession on the occasion of the 415th installation anniversary of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, in Amritsar, Punjab. (PTI)

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Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (L) and Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar address a press conference to announce the mega merger of 10 state-run banks into 4 banks, at National Media Centre, in New Delhi. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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Kashmiri children attend private classes at a teacher's residence in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. The government imposed a security lockdown and communications blackout in Muslim-majority Kashmir to avoid a violent reaction to the August 05 decision to downgrade the region's autonomy. (Mukhtar Khan / AP)

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Sister Mary Prema Pierick, center, Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, lights a candle as Thomas D'Souza, right, Archbishop of Calcutta bows at the tomb on her birth anniversary in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Bikas Das / AP)

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A view of Neela Gumbad inside the complex of Humayun's Tomb, in New Delhi. It will open for the general public soon. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi slaps the hand of President Donald Trump as they share a laugh during a bilateral meeting at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France. (Andrew Harnik / AP)

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Former Congress president and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi with flood victim families at Mananthavady in Wayanad, Kerala. (PTI)

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A Tibetan woman shouts slogan during a protest to support Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors, in New Delhi. (Adnan Abidi / REUTERS)

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A horse grazes under a blanket of thick fog at Triund, a popular hiking destination in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. (Ashwini Bhatia / AP)

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Washermen organise clothes for drying on a field, at Nadia district of West Bengal. (PTI)

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A fisherman anchors his boat after fishing at Carter road in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Ragul Krishnan / HT Photo)

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Students of a Madrasa sit on the bank of river Ganges as flood waters receded at the Sangam area in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. (Sanjay Kanojia / AFP)

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Tourists pose for pictures at a duplicate 'Rancho's Wall' on the premises of Druk Padma Karpo School at Shey in Leh district of Ladakh. (PTI)

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A young rock climber scales a vertical artificial wall in front of the Vidhana Soudha to mark the nationwide launch of the Fit India Movement, in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (Manjunath Kiran / AFP)

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An elephant calf along with two wild elephants walk along a road at Nelliyampathy in Palaghat district of Kerala. Wild elephants and other animals often leave their territory in pursuit of better habitat. (PTI)

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Revellers gather around idols as they parade to celebrate the ‘Marbat Festival’ in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The festival, which is unique to the city, involves the construction, parading and burning of idols meant to represent the forces of evil. (Sunny Shende / HT Photo)

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NCC cadets during a training session at the Combined Army Training Camp (CATC) at Nagrota on the outskirts of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. (PTI)

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Police Control Room (PCR) vans stand parked during their launch at Kolkata Police Headquarters in Kolkata, West Bengal. (PTI)

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An artisan works on a sculpture of Hindu Lord Ganesh ahead of the upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival, at a workshop in Hyderabad, Telangana. (Noah Seelam / AFP)

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Jammu: Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol near International border on the outskirts of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. (PTI)

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A view of an illuminated Qutub Minar, at Mehrauli, in New Delhi. (Amal KS / HT Photo )