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The hues of Holi and advancing towards elections: India this week

Updated On Mar 25, 2019 03:55 PM IST

From celebrations of Holi across the country to the looming general elections manifesting on day to day life ; a roundup of top photos from across the country.

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A reveller is drenched in coloured water during Holi celebrations in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (Arun Sankar / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A reveller is drenched in coloured water during Holi celebrations in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (Arun Sankar / AFP)

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A woman walks past a wall painted with the election symbol of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in an alley at a residential area in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Rupak De Chowdhuri / REUTERS) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A woman walks past a wall painted with the election symbol of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in an alley at a residential area in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Rupak De Chowdhuri / REUTERS)

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Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir joins Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at BJP headquarters in New Delhi. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir joins Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at BJP headquarters in New Delhi. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)

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A boy sprays coloured water on a girl during Holi inside a temple in Nandgaon village, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. (Adnan Abidi / REUTERS) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A boy sprays coloured water on a girl during Holi inside a temple in Nandgaon village, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. (Adnan Abidi / REUTERS)

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A man touches the wall of a Parsi fire temple featuring huge carvings of ancient priests on the occasion of the Persian New Year or Nowruz in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A man touches the wall of a Parsi fire temple featuring huge carvings of ancient priests on the occasion of the Persian New Year or Nowruz in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS)

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Devotees take part in a procession during the religious festival of Panguni Uthiram celebrated in honour of the Hindu god Muruga in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (Amit Dave / REUTERS) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Devotees take part in a procession during the religious festival of Panguni Uthiram celebrated in honour of the Hindu god Muruga in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (Amit Dave / REUTERS)

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A student runs past a wall art advocating for the protection of sparrows at Bandra in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Satish Bate / HT Photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A student runs past a wall art advocating for the protection of sparrows at Bandra in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Satish Bate / HT Photo)

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A man seen crossing a road during a rare March spell of snowfall, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A man seen crossing a road during a rare March spell of snowfall, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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The sun sets in the backdrop of the Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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The sun sets in the backdrop of the Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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Amra Jahan (L), 46, stitches All India Trinamool Congress party flags at her house ahead of parliamentary elections in the old quarters of Delhi. (Chandan Khanna / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Amra Jahan (L), 46, stitches All India Trinamool Congress party flags at her house ahead of parliamentary elections in the old quarters of Delhi. (Chandan Khanna / AFP)

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A labourer walks over a railway track on Bogibeel Bridge, India’s longest rail-road bridge in Dibrughar, some 440km from Guwahati, Assam. (Biju Boro / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A labourer walks over a railway track on Bogibeel Bridge, India’s longest rail-road bridge in Dibrughar, some 440km from Guwahati, Assam. (Biju Boro / AFP)

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An artist dressed as the Hindu deity Shiva poses on a roadside in Hyderabad, Telangana. (Noah Seelam / AFP) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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An artist dressed as the Hindu deity Shiva poses on a roadside in Hyderabad, Telangana. (Noah Seelam / AFP)

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Devotees are showered with perfumed water at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti during the 807th Urs festival, in Ajmer, Rajasthan. (PTI) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Devotees are showered with perfumed water at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti during the 807th Urs festival, in Ajmer, Rajasthan. (PTI)

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Congress General Secretary UP-East Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during a road show ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, in Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh. (PTI) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Congress General Secretary UP-East Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during a road show ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, in Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh. (PTI)

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Passersby look at the effigy of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar, built by the residents of Worli BDD chawls ahead of Holi, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (PTI) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Passersby look at the effigy of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar, built by the residents of Worli BDD chawls ahead of Holi, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (PTI)

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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Virat Kohli during a practice session ahead of IPL 2019, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (R Senthil Kumar / PTI) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Virat Kohli during a practice session ahead of IPL 2019, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (R Senthil Kumar / PTI)

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A rescuer holds infant Nadeem Khan after an operation to recover him from inside a 60-feet-deep borewell where he fell while playing near his house, in Balsamand village in Hisar district of Haryana. (PTI) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A rescuer holds infant Nadeem Khan after an operation to recover him from inside a 60-feet-deep borewell where he fell while playing near his house, in Balsamand village in Hisar district of Haryana. (PTI)

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Workers scrub through the Parliament House facade in New Delhi. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Workers scrub through the Parliament House facade in New Delhi. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

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Sweet makers of Balaram Mullick and Radharaman Mullick work on preparations bearing symbols of various political parties at Bhowanipore, in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Samir jana / HT Photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Sweet makers of Balaram Mullick and Radharaman Mullick work on preparations bearing symbols of various political parties at Bhowanipore, in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Samir jana / HT Photo)

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A competitor from Mumbai Suburban reacts during a match during the Late Shikshanmaharshi Shivajirao Konde Memorial Maharashtra State Selection Under-7 Girls and Boys Chess Championship at Khed Shivapur in Pune, Maharashtara. (Pratham Gokhale / HT Photo) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A competitor from Mumbai Suburban reacts during a match during the Late Shikshanmaharshi Shivajirao Konde Memorial Maharashtra State Selection Under-7 Girls and Boys Chess Championship at Khed Shivapur in Pune, Maharashtara. (Pratham Gokhale / HT Photo)

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