Nov 6: India in pics
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Senior BJP leader LK Advani being garlanded by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi during his Jan Chetna Yatra at Daman and Diu of Gujarat Border in Vapi.
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People get body massages on the bank of the Ganges river in Kolkata.
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Singer Sonu Nigam performs during the Qutub festival 2011 in New Delhi.
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Labourers make their way on a canoe as they clean up water hyacinths and other invasive plants from the Santragachi Jheel (lake) in Santragachi. The labourers were hired by local residents to clear the lake for the forthcoming winter, when migratory birds from Siberia, China, Russia and the Himalayas take flight to the region.
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New recruits of Indian paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) participate in a passing-out parade ceremony in Humhama, on the outskirts of Srinagar. A total of 616 recruits, formally inducted into the BSF, will join Indian soldiers fighting separatist Islamic guerrillas in Kashmir to help end an insurgency that started in 1989.
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A woman looks into a shop of western cloths as she arrives for a fair in Pushkar. The famous Pushkar fair, which attracts lakhs of people including foreign tourists, takes place in the Hindu month of Kartika beginning on 8th day of Lunar calendar and continues till full moon. It is located on the banks of Pushkar Lake, a popular Hindu pilgrimage spot and known for its annual cattle fair and camel races.
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Camel herders pull their animals, bought from the fair, on to a truck for transporting them to their village from the Pushkar cattle fair, in Pushkar. Pushkar, located on the banks of Pushkar Lake, is a popular Hindu pilgrimage spot that is also frequented by foreign tourists for its annual cattle fair and camel races.
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