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    Nationwide protests against CAA and Jharkhand elections: India this week

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    Updated on Dec 22, 2019 10:57 IST
    A burning bus is seen after it was set on fire by miscreants during a protest against Citizenship Amendment Act, at New Friends Colony, in New Delhi. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)29

    Photos | Anti-CAA stir: Violence continues as death toll mounts to 21

    Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) supporters burn tyres and block roads during Bihar Bandh, called by RJD to agitate against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Patna, Bihar. Thousands of people joined fresh rallies against the contentious law, with 21 killed so far in this month’s unrest. The death toll jumped after demonstrations turned violent on Friday in the most populous state Uttar Pradesh, leaving at least 16 dead, including an eight-year-old boy, who was trampled. (ANI)13
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    Updated on Dec 21, 2019 15:22 IST

    Photos of the week: President Trump impeached and Australia bushfires

    House members vote as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stands on the dias during a vote on Article II of Impeachment against President Donald Trump, at Capitol Hill in Washington, US. (Patrick Semansky / AP)20
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    Updated on Dec 21, 2019 14:52 IST

    Photos: Meth boom adds to Afghanistan’s opium and heroin troubles

    Drug addicts rest at a drug treatment centre in Kabul, as part of a compulsory detox programme launched by the government. Data from 2015 -- when the last comprehensive national survey was carried out -- showed about three million drug addicts in Afghanistan, a huge proportion of the country’s estimated 37 million people. Experts say the number has only risen, and health officials estimate the proportion of addicts using meth could be as high as about 40%. (Noorullah Shirzada / AFP)8
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    Updated on Dec 21, 2019 07:07 IST

    Photos: Friday prayers turn violent in UP as anti-CAA stir continues across India

    Footwear of protesters strewn on a street after protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)and National Register of Citizens turned violent in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Stone-pelting protesters were lathi-charged by police in the city. People wore black ribbons, shouted slogans and waved the tricolour while protesting after the Friday prayers. (HT Photo)13
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    Updated on Dec 20, 2019 15:52 IST

    PHOTOS: Protesters against CAA and NRC at Jama Masjid

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    Updated on Dec 20, 2019 13:29 IST

    PHOTOS: Protests against CAA and NRC in Mumbai

    Bollywood actor Farhan Akhtar during a protest against the CAA and NRC, at August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai. (PTI)6
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    Updated on Dec 20, 2019 13:29 IST

    PHOTOS: Protests against CAA and NRC at Jantar Mantar, Delhi

    A demonstrator in an anonymous facemask against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)6
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    Updated on Dec 20, 2019 13:28 IST

    Photos: Citizenship fears fuel anger among Muslims

    A man looks on before prayers at a mosque in Barpeta village in Assam. Habib-ur-Rehman was locked up for four years after failing to prove he’s Indian, and now worries that he might be expelled. It’s a fear shared by many other Muslims living in India. (Sajjad Hussain / AFP)10
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    Updated on Dec 20, 2019 10:56 IST

    Photos: Extended rainfall reduces number of migratory birds visiting Bhigwan

    Flamingos spotted at Kumbhargaon, Bhigwan, in Pune district of Maharashtra. The extended rainfall this year has caused a decline in the number of flamingos arriving in the natural wetlands at Bhigwan, according to bird watchers. Flamingos prefer shallow water, and owing to the higher-than-usual water level this year, their numbers dipped. However, other migratory birds have been seen in large numbers. (Pratham Gokhale / HT Photo)15
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    Updated on Dec 20, 2019 09:48 IST

    Photos: Section 144 imposed, violent crackdown on CAA protests across India

    People are detained as Section 144 is imposed during a protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the violent crackdown of police forces on university students protesting against CAA, at Red Fort, in Delhi. Protests erupted across the country after Delhi Police beat up the students of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) who were participating in a protest march against CAA from their campus to parliament on Sunday, December 15. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)16
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    Updated on Dec 19, 2019 15:09 IST

    Photos: US President Donald Trump impeached for abuse of power

    US President Donald Trump arrives at WK Kellogg Airport as the US House of Representatives debates his impeachment on Wednesday, in Battle Creek, Michigan. Trump was impeached for abuse of power in a historic vote in the House, setting up a Senate trial on removing him from office after three turbulent years. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)10
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    Updated on Dec 19, 2019 08:44 IST

    Photos: The icemen behind China’s frozen festival

    Workers use picks to cut ice blocks from the frozen Songhua river in Harbin, China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province. Liu Yantao and his six co-workers toil on a frozen river in northeast China before dawn, using hand tools and machines to carve large ice bricks for the annual Harbin Ice Festival. (Noel Celis / AFP)7
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    Updated on Dec 19, 2019 04:42 IST

    Photos: South Africa’s Eastern Cape battles brutal drought

    A wheelbarrow containing refilled bottles of water stands on a road towards the Bezuidenhoutville informal settlement in Adelaide. The Eastern Cape Province of South Africa is far from being the only South African province affected by this very long drought. The crisis is almost national, with dramatic consequences, for farmers of course, but also for schoolchildren and businesses. (Guillem Sartorio / AFP)9
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    Updated on Dec 18, 2019 11:24 IST

    Photos: CAA protest turn violent in Delhi’s Seelampur

    Protestors pelt stones towards police during a protest against the CAA at Seelampur, in New Delhi. “Many groups from Seelampur, Jafrabad and other neighbouring areas had been carrying out peaceful protest march for the last three days. The police had been facilitating the marches. Tuesday’s protest was no different until some outsiders and unruly elements became violent and resorted to stone pelting and vandalising vehicles,” said Ishtiyaq Hussain, member of the local Aman Committee. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)10
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    Updated on Dec 18, 2019 11:24 IST

    Photos: Stuck in Greek snow, refugees miss dismal camps

    Two migrant men walk in the snow by a disused ski lodge near the village of Polineri, in Grevena, some 210km west of Thessaloniki. A part of the asylum-seekers staying at the Moria migrant and refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos, were transported to the ski lodge at Vasilitsa, at an altitude of 1,000 metres and 45 kilometres (28 miles) from the nearest town of Grevena. (Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP)7
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    Updated on Dec 18, 2019 04:23 IST

    Photos: CAA protests spread to campuses in India after Jamia and AMU

    A woman holds a placard during a protest in solidarity with Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) university students after Sunday’s violence, in Mumbai. Unprecedented violent clashes at two Muslim-majority campuses, JMI and Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), on Sunday evening galvanised the student community from premier institutions – including top state and central universities, national law schools, IITs, IIMs and the Indian Institute of Science. (Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS)12
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    Updated on Dec 18, 2019 04:23 IST

    Photos: Battle of the Bulge heroes remembered 75 years on

    Actors wearing WWII US unifoms surrender to actors wearing WWII German uniforms during a historical re-enactment of the Battle of the Ardennes as part of commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the WWII battle, in Hardigny on December 15, 2019. The battle, fought over the winter months of 1944 and 1945, was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in World War II. (John Thys / AFP)10
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    Published on Dec 17, 2019 11:34 IST

    Photos: Rhythm and smiles as Morocco’s Gnawa artists get UNESCO listing

    In a riot of colour, acrobatics and drum beats, Morocco’s gnawa artists joyously celebrated the inclusion of their ancient art-form in UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Troupes of the artists in traditional costumes paraded through the white-and-blue citadel town of Essaouira in southern Morocco Saturday, the sound of their lute strings and steel castanets filling the streets. (Fadel Senna / AFP)7
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    Updated on Dec 17, 2019 08:25 IST

    Photos: Soviet bombs continue to claim lives in Afghanistan decades on

    Deminers scan a Soviet-era combat zone at Ahangaran in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Gholam Mahaiuddin sighs softly as he thinks of his 14-year-old son, killed by a bomb dropped last century in the hills of Bamiyan. “We knew the mountain was dangerous,” said Mahaiuddin, who found his son’s remains after he didn’t come home one day. “We were aware of mines but we could not find them. They were buried in the soft sand after the rain.” (Mohammad Ali Shaida / AFP)11
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    Updated on Dec 16, 2019 12:04 IST

    Photos: Calendar art thrives in the digital age

    Ranjeet Singh is applying finishing touches to a Lord Krishna painting in his studio in west Delhi’s Moti Nagar. With him are a galaxy of gods —Shiva, Ganesha, Vishnu, the Buddha, all painted by him and his brother. Set up in 1951 by his father and uncle, the studio “Rangroop”, is known for its calendar art. “Many people think that calendar art is dead, but the fact is my hands are full,” says Singh, and he isn’t exaggerating. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)9
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    Updated on Dec 16, 2019 12:04 IST

    Photos: Tramadol, the other opioid crisis in the developing world

    A drug addict lies unconscious by the side of a road in Kapurthala, Punjab. Mass abuse of the opioid tramadol spans continents, creating havoc some experts blame on a loophole in regulation and a miscalculation of its danger. Punjab, the centre of India’s opioid epidemic, was among the latest to crack down on tramadol. Researchers estimate about 4 million Indians use heroin or other opioids, and a quarter of them live in the Punjab. (Channi Anand / AP)12
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    Updated on Dec 16, 2019 07:41 IST

    Unrest over citizenship law and 43 dead in fire at Delhi’s Anaj Mandi: India this week

    Demonstrators against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) during a strike called by the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO), in Agartala. The United Nations human rights office described the Citizenship (Amendment) Act as “fundamentally discriminatory in nature” and called for it to be reviewed even as a US panel that monitors religious freedom again expressed concern about the law. (PTI)15
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    Updated on Dec 15, 2019 06:33 IST

    Photos: From Beed to Tokyo, Sable’s long, hard run

    Athlete Avinash Sable during his training session at NIS in Patiala. “Working hard is in my blood,” Sable says. “Whatever memories I have of my childhood, most of it is seeing my parents’ struggles to feed me and my brother every night.” (Bharat Bhushan / HT Photo)8
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    Updated on Dec 14, 2019 12:43 IST

    Photos: Tokyo being billed as ‘Recovery Olympics’ -- but not for all

    Toshihide Yoshida, a 71-year-old evacuee from the nuclear crisis-hit town of Futaba in Fukushima prefecture, walks out to the backyard of his home to dust off an old family photo in Kazo, Japan. The torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics will kick off in Fukushima, devastated almost nine years ago by an earthquake, tsunami and the subsequent meltdown of three nuclear reactors. (Jae C. Hong / AP)12
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    Updated on Dec 14, 2019 10:08 IST

    Photos of the week: Greta Thunberg at UN summit and Boris Johnson wins parliamentary majority

    Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives to participate in the event "Unite behind the science" within the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 at the 'IFEMA - Feria de Madrid' exhibition centre, in Madrid. Thunberg accused rich countries of “misleading” people over climate action at UN talks on Wednesday hours before a veteran leader of the global environmental movement with whom she shared the podium was locked out of the conference. (CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP)16
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    Updated on Dec 14, 2019 06:39 IST

    Photos: Glimpses of Palestinian refugee camps, then and now

    A Palestinian woman feeds a child at UNRWA’s rehydration/nutrition centre in Ein El Sultan camp in Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 1960s (L) and a Palestinian woman feeds a child at the same camp on September 17, 2019. Middle East has lurched from conflict to civil war to peace and back again. But for Palestinian refugees in these camps, there has been little movement over decades. (UNRWA / Mohamad Torokman / REUTERS)14
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    Updated on Dec 13, 2019 11:21 IST

    Photos | Beating, homesickness: Tough path to the top for Georgian sumo star

    Georgia-born sumo wrestler Levan Gorgadze known by his Japanese wrestling name of Tsuyoshi Tochinoshin warms up during a training session at a sumo stable in Tokyo. As a teen in 2006, Gorgadze left his mountain village in the Caucasus near the ancient Georgian city of Mtskheta for the bright lights of Tokyo, a city with 10 times as many people as his entire home country. (Behrouz Mehri / AFP)10
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    Updated on Dec 13, 2019 07:45 IST

    Photos: Thai rice farmers shun ‘big agribusiness’ and fight climate change

    Farmers harvesting rice in the village of Mae Rim in the northern Thai province of Chiang Mai. Battling drought, debt and ailments blamed on pesticides, rice farmers in northern Thailand have turned to eco-friendly growing methods despite powerful agribusiness interests in a country that is one of the top exporters of the grain in the world. (Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)8
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    Updated on Dec 13, 2019 04:39 IST

    Photos: Protests against CAB; army deployed, curfew imposed, and flights suspended

    Demonstrators shout slogans as they hold placards to protest against the government's Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), during the shutdown in Agartala. After a seven-hour debate, the Rajya Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, or CAB. The Lok Sabha had cleared the bill shortly after midnight on Tuesday. It will become law once President Ram Nath Kovind formally gives his assent to the bill. (STR / AFP)14
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    Updated on Dec 12, 2019 17:24 IST
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