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Zakir Musa killed in Tral and a wrap on election season: India this week
From a security forces operation in Kashmir’s Tral that killed wanted militant Zakir Musa to a decisive end to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with the thumping return of the Bharatiya Janata Party at the wheel of India’s government; a roundup of top photos from across the country.
Updated on: May 26, 2019 3:36 PM IST
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A boy looks at a bullet-riddled wall of a residential house that was damaged during a gun battle between militant commander Zakir Musa and security forces, at Dadasara village, in Tral, Jammu and Kashmir. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)
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A view inside Parliament House, a day ahead of the counting of ballots for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, with arrangements being made for incoming elected members of the 17th Lok Sabha, in New Delhi. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)
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A worker racks salt at a salt pan at Bhayandar in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)
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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, Party President Rahul Gandhi and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra pay tribute to late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 28th death anniversary at Veer Bhoomi in New Delhi. (Ajay Aggarwal / HT Photo)
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Workers from the electricity department up high on electric poles, at Sector 54, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. (Sunil Ghosh / HT Photo)
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A street food vendor serves up Gol gappa also known as Panipuri to eager customers in Jammu city, Jammu and Kashmir. (Nitin Kanotra / HT Photo)
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People crowd into a truck as an alternative after metro service operations on the Yellow Line were hit due to the breakdown of overhead wires between Sultanpur station and Qutub Minar Metro station, in New Delhi. (Amal KS / HT Photo)
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A Jet Airways employee feigns death during a protest against delayed salaries and the current shutdown crisis outside Rajiv Gandhi bhawan at Jor Bagh in New Delhi. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)
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Senior congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, N Chandrababu Naidu Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Congress party leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Chief Minister of Rajasthan and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal among other opposition party leaders addressing media after meeting against trust in Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) at the Election Commission, in New Delhi. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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Firefighters work to douse a blaze at Takshila complex that engulfed the third and fourth floor of the coaching centre, in Surat, Gujarat. (HT Photo)
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A Kashmiri man fishes under the shade of an umbrella in the backwaters of the Dal Lake in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)
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(L-R) Union Minister for Transport and Shipping Nitin Gadkari, BJP National president Amit Shah, Prime minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu during a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers to thank them for their service during this term at BJP Headquarters in New Delhi. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)
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An elderly woman eats an ice cream on a hot summer day at India Gate, in New Delhi. (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)
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A zookeeper sprinkles water on an elephant during hot afternoon in Delhi Zoo, in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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A youth scouts around for mud crabs and snakehead fish as he walks on the parched bed of Chembarambakkam lake on the outskirts of Chennai. Water levels in the four main reservoirs in Chennai has fallen to one of their lowest levels in 70 years, with the current levels amounting to only 1.3 percent of full capacity. (Arun Sankar / AFP)
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A road is left smeared with saffron colour by celebrations from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters with massive leads projected in the Lok Sabha election results, near Howrah Bridge, in Howrah, West Bengal. (Arijit Sen / HT Photo)
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows the victory sign as he, along with the party President Amit Shah, arrives at the party headquarters to celebrate the BJP’s victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, in New Delhi. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)
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The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO), Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C46) launches on board India’s radar imaging earth observation satellite RISAT-2B from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. (Arun Sankar / AFP)
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Fishermen from Bhilewadi out on their boats in the night, with heavy floodlights as a precautionary measure to avoid attacks from crocodiles, in Maharashtra. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)
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