Jan 01, 2013
Men hold posters while participating in a candle-lit vigil to mourn the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi. The gang-rape of 23-year old girl has set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
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AP Photo/ Dar YasinJan 01, 2013
People hold banners as they take part in a silent protest to mourn the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi. The gang-rape and killing of 23-year old Delhi braveheart has set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
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AP Photo/Dar YasinJan 01, 2013
Anti-rape protesters display placards at a demonstration demanding justice for the 23-yr-old gang-rape victim at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/Kamal SinghJan 01, 2013
A man makes a banner during a protest to mourn the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi. The gang-rape and killing of 23-year old Delhi braveheart has set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
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AP Photo/Dar YasinJan 01, 2013
A traffic policeman discharges his duty at Vijay Chowk during a cold and foggy morning in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/Atul YadavJan 01, 2013
Giirls pay tribute to the 23-yr-old gang-rape victim at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi .
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PTI Photo/Manvender VashistJan 01, 2013
People take part in a candle light vigil for the 23-yr-old gang-rape victim at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/Manvender VashistJan 01, 2013
A man arranges posters on a road during a protest to mourn the death of 23-year old gang rape victim in New Delhi. The gang-rape and killing of Delhi braveheart has set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
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AP Photo/Tsering TopgyalJan 01, 2013
Tourists at ski resort Gulmarg in North Kashmir.
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PTI Photo/S IrfanJan 01, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at an "Inter-Faith Peace Prayer" for the 23-yr-old gang-rape victim at Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/Vijay VermaJan 01, 2013
An Ivory Coast troop stands next to the belongings of people involved in a deadly stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. At least 61 people were killed in a stampede following a New Year's fireworks display in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's commercial center, said officials. The death toll is expected to rise, according to rescue workers.
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AP Photo/Emanuel EkraJan 01, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur and Mohini Giri light candles during an "Inter-Faith Peace Prayer" organised for the 23-yr-old gang-rape victim, at Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/Vijay VermaJan 01, 2013
Protesters hold banners and wear black ribbons during a protest against the Delhi gang-rape, in Shimla.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
Passengers, wearing warm clothes, wait at New Delhi Railway Station during a cold day.
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PTI Photo/Atul YadavJan 01, 2013
Protesters holding a fast over women atrocities at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/Kamal SinghJan 01, 2013
A thick blanket of fog covers the India Gate in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/Atul YadavJan 01, 2013
Women drink tea as they participate in a protest to mourn the death of 23-year old gang rape victim in New Delhi. The gang-rape and killing of the Delhi braveheart has set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
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AP Photo/Tsering TopgyalJan 01, 2013
A police officer distributing chocolates and New Year gift cards to people found abiding traffic rules during 24th Road Safety Week in Srinagar.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
People condole the death of Delhi rape victim in Lucknow.
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Photo/Nand KumarJan 01, 2013
Families of terminated Maruti Suzuki company employees and women belonging to Akhil Bharatiya Janvadi Mahilla Samiti holding a protest march demanding the release of jailed workers in Gurgaon. They were also protesting against the Delhi gang rape incident.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
Devotees stand in queues to offer prayers at Dakshineswar Temple on the occasion of 'Kalpataru festival', celebrated on New Year day, in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
Devotees paying obeisance at Golden Temple in Amritsar on the first day of the new year.
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PTI Photo/Deepak SharmaJan 01, 2013
Devotees perform 'aarti' at Sangam on the New Year day in Allahabad.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
In this March 21, 2012 file photo, a tribal woman Rangamma, left, fills subsidized rice at a fair price shop under the Public Distribution System in Rayagada, in Odisha. India will send billions of dollars in social welfare money directly to poor under direct Cash Transfer scheme inaugurated Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, aiming to cut out the middlemen blamed for the massive fraud that plagues the system.
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AP Photo/Manish Swarup, FileJan 01, 2013
The New Year's day holiday brings Egyptian children out to play on the street in the affluent neighborhood of Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt.
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AP Photo/Amr NabilJan 01, 2013
A Ghader missile is launched from the area near the Iranian port of Jask port on the shore of the Gulf of Oman during an Iranian navy drill. Iran says it has tested advanced anti-ship missiles in the final day of a naval drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-fifth of the world's oil supply. State TV says "Ghader", or "Capable", a missile with a range of 200 kilometers (120 miles), was among the weapons used.
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AP Photo/Jamejam Online, Azin HaghighiJan 01, 2013
A man walks surrounded by fog as the sun rises in Ajmer. North India continues to face extreme weather conditions with dense fog affecting flights and trains.
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AP Photo/Deepak SharmaJan 01, 2013
Christians release balloons to celebrate the New Year at a Methodist church in Ahmedabad.
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AP Photo/Ajit SolankiJan 01, 2013
Pope Benedict XVI is helped walk down steps by his aides as he presides a New Year's Eve vespers service in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI has marked the end of a difficult year by saying that despite all the death and injustice in the world, goodness prevails. Benedict celebrated New Year's Eve with a vespers service in St. Peter's Basilica to give thanks for 2012 and look ahead to 2013.
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AP/PTIJan 01, 2013
Activists of North East Girls Students Association (NEGSA) staging a protest in Guwahati demanding death penalty to the rapists.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
Tennis player Rohan Bopanna with his wife during the ATP Chennai Open 2013 in Chennai.
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PTI Photo/R Senthil KumarJan 01, 2013
Fireworks explode over Elizabeth Tower housing the Big Ben clock to celebrate the New Year in London.
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AP Photo/Kirsty WigglesworthJan 01, 2013
Confetti flies over New York's Times Square after the clock strikes midnight during the New Year's Eve celebration as seen from the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York.
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AP Photo/Mary AltafferJan 01, 2013
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan launches Direct Cash Transfer Scheme in Mumbai.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
Tennis player Prakash Amritraj celebrates his win over Guillaume Rufin of France at the first round of ATP Chennai Open2013 in Chennai.
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PTI Photo/R Senthil KumarJan 01, 2013
German Ambassador to India Michael Steiner with his wife paying obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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PTI Photo/Deepak SharmaJan 01, 2013
Sex workers condole the death of Delhi gang-rape victim in Bhubaneswar.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
Students of Osmaina University block a road demanding arrest of the culprit involved in rape and murder of the law student P Aruna in Hyderabad.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
A Muslim woman walks past as others prepares to hang a huge kite on top of a building ahead of a kite festival in Ahmedabad. The festival will be celebrated on Jan. 14, 2013.
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AP Photo/Ajit SolankiJan 01, 2013
Ivory Coast First Lady Dominique Ouattara, center left, speaks with a person injured in a stampede as they are treated at a hospital in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. At least 61 people were killed in a stampede following a New Year's fireworks display in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's commercial center, said officials. The death toll is expected to rise, according to rescue workers.
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AP Photo/Emanuel EkraJan 01, 2013
A Pakistani police officer, left, talks on the radio while cameramen flims the site of a blast in Karachi, Pakistan. At least 30 people were injured when a bomb went off in the port city of Karachi just as a large political rally was dispersing. A Senior police officer said the bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked amid a crowd of buses for political workers returning from the rally held by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the dominant political party in Karachi.
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AP Photo/Shakil AdilJan 01, 2013
Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli soldiers, not seen, during clashes in the West Bank village of Tamoun, near Jenin. Palestinians say a raid by Israeli soldiers disguised as vegetable vendors to seize members of a militant group has sparked clashes in the northern West Bank.
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AP Photo/Mohammed BallasJan 01, 2013
Afghan men ride horses in the snow on the shores of Lake Qargha in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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AP Photo/Ahmad JamshidJan 01, 2013
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit distributes certificates to a beneficiary of the scheme as Revenue Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely and PWD Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan looks on during the launch of Aadhaar Enabled Direct Cash Transfer Scheme at Delhi Secretariat in New Delhi.
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PTI PhotoJan 01, 2013
Anti-government protesters, surrounded by police officers, block the main road in downtown, on New Year's Day in Hong Kong to call for the resignation of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. Several hundred members of a small radical group briefly blocked roads after they were stopped by authorities from marching to Leung's official government residence. At one point, protesters pushed and shoved with police.
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AP/PTI Photo