The sun sets over 2018 and women devotees enter Sabarimala: India this week

From ushering in the New Year with celebration and symbolism to the Lord Ayappa shrine in Sabarimala being ritually 'purified' after two women devotees managed to enter the temple which is otherwise barred to women of menstruating age ; a roundup of top photos from across the country.

Updated on: Jan 07, 2019 1:47 PM IST

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A view of the sun setting on the year gone by, on New Year’s Eve from Signature Bridge in Wazirabad in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)

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A make-up artist decorates the hair of a woman in the shape of Santa Claus during the New Year preparations in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (Amit Dave / REUTERS)

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A Naga Sadhu or a Hindu holy man arrives to take part in a religious procession ahead of the Kumbh Mela, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. (Jitendra Prakash / REUTERS)

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A macaque monkey has a go at leftovers atop a table at Press Club in New Delhi. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)

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LGBTQ community members take part in the 20th Kolkata Ranibow Pride Walk from Hazra Crossing to Vivekananda Park in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

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A moment between celebrations as people gather out to ring in the New Year at FC road in Pune, Maharashtra. (Rahul raut / HT Photo)

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A man taking part in the 201st anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Koregaon, covers himself with warm clothes on in Koregaon Bhima in Pune, Maharashtra. (Pratham Gokhale / HT Photo)

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The T-18 train which has diffused lighting, automatic doors and footsteps beside GPS-based Passenger Information System, seen during its inspection by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, at New Delhi Railway Station, in New Delhi. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi is mobbed by member s of the media as he leaves after attending a day’s worth of heated proceedings over the Rafale deal during the Parliament’s Winter Session in New Delhi. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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A herd of cattle is spotted out grazing on a foggy morning, near Dwarka, New Delhi. (Vipin Kumar / HT Photo)

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(L-R)Chandrakant Pandit and Sachin Tendulkar attend the funeral of the latter’s cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, January 3, 2019. (Kunal Patil / HT Photo)

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A view of the Qutub Minar shrouded in fog on a cold winter morning at Mehrauli in New Delhi. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

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A woman washes her clothes in Pushkar Lake in the western state of Rajasthan. (Noemi Cassanelli / AFP)

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A Kashmiri woman touches the feet of two slain militants during a funeral procession in Chursoo Awantipora, in Pulwama district south of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Tauseef Mustafa / AFP)

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A pilot stretches a hot balloon air as it inflates during the inauguration ceremony of the 5th edition of Tamil Nadu International Balloon Festival in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (Arun Sankar / AFP)

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A boy flies a kite through the salt pans in Bhayandar in Mumbai, Maharshtra. (Pramod Thakur / Hindustan Times)

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Poet Sankha Ghosh (R-back) and Mrinal Sen’s son Kunal Sen (R) take part in the funeral procession of film director Mrinal Sen as his body is taken to Keoratala crematorium in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

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A view of burnt shanties in a slum dwelling at Sarfabad village, in Sector 73, Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Over 250 houses were charred and 1000 men, women and children left shelterless in a fire that struck the slum. (Virendra Singh Gosain / HT Photo)

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A visually impaired girl reads Braille that she typed using a Braille typewriter at a school for the visually impaired in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS)

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Priests carry out ‘purification’ of the Lord Ayyappa Temple after two women in their early 40s entered the shrine and offered prayers, in Sabarimala, Kerala. (PTI)