A Modi lookalike, harvest festivals and a cold wave: Best photos of the week

When left parties were holding a protest march outside the state secretariat against PM Modi's demonetisation move on Thursday a Modi look-alike appeared on the scene shocking many. (BS Prasannan Managalam/HT Photo)

Published on: Jan 14, 2017 12:44 PM IST

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When left parties were holding a protest march outside the state secretariat against PM Modi's demonetisation move on Thursday a Modi look-alike appeared on the scene shocking many. (BS Prasannan Managalam/HT Photo)

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A speed-boat of the frigate ‘Baden-Wuertemberg’ is lifted by a crane during a media presentation of Naval forces of German army ‘Bundeswehr’ in the North Sea, Germany. (Fabian Bimmer / REUTERS)

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A pilgrim offers prayers after taking a dip in the Ganges river ahead of the one-day festival of Makar Sankranti at Sagar Island, south of Kolkata. (Rupak De Chowdhuri / REUTERS)

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Devotees take holy bath and perform rituals in the Bay of Bengal at the mouth of the river Ganges in Sagar Island. (Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP)

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A group of women huddle around the bonfire on a cold winter morning at Dwarka in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Zuhaib Mohammad / HT photo)

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Professional bareback rider Tanner Aus of Pennock, Minnesota, competes during the finals of the ‘Colorado vs The World Rodeo’ at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. (Jason Connolly / AFP)

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Rescue workers stand near a bus which crashed off a highway as it is towed away by a truck crane, near Charolles, central France, on January 8, 2017. (PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP)

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A close-up of pop singer Lady Gaga’s wax statue during an event , at Shangri La Hotel in New Delhi on Thursday. (Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

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Rats drink milk donated by devotees inside the Karni Mata temple, where thousands of rats are fed, protected and worshipped throughout the year, in Deshnoke near Bikaner, in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan. (Himanshu Sharma / REUTERS)

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Students wearing traditional Punjabi attire performing Giddha during the Lohri festival celebration at Shahzada Nand College Amritsar on Friday. (Gurpreet Singh / HT photo )

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A young girl takes part in a community fishing event during the Bhogali Bihu celebrations at Goroimari Lake in Panbari, some 50 kms from Guwahati. Bhogali Bihu is a harvest festival celebrated in Assam. (Biju Boro / AFP)

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Steam rises from chimneys of a thermal power plant on a frosty winter day in Moscow, Russia January 8, 2017. (Maxim Shemetov / REUTERS)

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Zoo employee Daria Zhirnova dressed in an Evenki traditional costume, holds Pykh, an 8-month-old eagle owl, during a training session which is a part of Royev Ruchey zoo's programme of taming wild animals for research, and for enlightenment and interaction with visitors, in the Siberian taiga forest in the suburb of Krasnoyarsk. (Ilya Naymushin / REUTERS)

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Fog shrouds railway tracks as cold wave intensifies in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)

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A candyfloss seller walks past snow covered trees at Kufri, Shimla on Tuesday. (Deepak Sansta / HT Photo)

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Devotees offer prayers by submerging themselves in the Hanumante River during the Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal January 13, 2017. (Navesh Chitrakar / REUTERS)