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Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC
- PTI Photo

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Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC The fifth global summit of 'Vibrant Gujarat' opened with great fanfare as the state claimed to have got investment commitments from various corporate houses to the tune of nearly Rs 15 lakh crore on the first day itself. That was not all, the Chief Minister was also hailed as thegreatest thing to have happened to the state after Mahatama Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani. The Congress said the comparison with Mahatama Gandhi was odious. Youngsters waiting for their turn at a special recruitment drive for the police force on a cold day at Khanyar in downtown Srinagar. Many of these youths were believed to have fought pitched battles with police last summer.Khanyar area includes some highly volatile localities where stone-pelters had engaged police and CRPF in running battles during the five-month-long unrest in the Valley last summer. All the youths, who appeared in the recruitment drive, denied have participated in the stone-pelting but a CRPF jawan on duty at the camp claimed he had identified at least 100 youths who had indulged in stone-pelting in different parts of the city. Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, S M Sahai, said if there is a criminal case against anyone, he will not be recruited in the force. A video image of a scene in the Karnataka assembly in Bangalore Protestors offer namaz (prayer), as they block traffic near the site of a religious structure that was demolished by DDA in New Delhi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh poses with functionaries of Ramakrishna Mission during inauguration of Swami Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary celebrations at Vigyan Bhawan, in New Delhi Iranians carry the coffins of victims of the Sunday's IranAir passenger plane crash, during a funeral ceremony, at the city of Orumiyeh, 700 kilometers northwest of the capital, Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 104 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing on Sunday, Jan. 9, in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing nearly 80 of those on board, Iranian media reported. Shah Rukh Khan, Vidya Balan (L) and Anushka Sharma (R) during the Apsara awards in Mumbai. Devotees take part in a religious procession at the Golden Temple as they celebrate birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh ji at Golden Temple in Amritsar South Africa's bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe, center, celebrates with teammates after taking a wicket of India's batsman Sachin Tendulkar, unseen, during the first One Day International cricket match against South Africa at the Kingsmead stadium in Durban. South Africa went on to thrash India by 135 runs. A panther was beaten to death by an angry mob at Kheri Gujraan village in Faridabad after it attacked two villagers and injured them Wholesale traders staging a dharna for being held responsible for rising prices of vegetables at Azadpur Mandi in New Delhi. Workers warm their hands around a fire in Hyderabad. Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee flanked by Ministers of State Namo Narain Meena (2nd L), S S Palanimanickam (R) and Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla (L) during a pre-budget consultation with Trade Union Leaders in New Delhi. BJP workers tie black cloths on their mouths as they take out a silent march demanding separate state of Telangana in Hyderabad. Banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leader Chitraban Hazarika greets the crowed and media outside the Guwahati central jail after his release in Guwahati. A house is surrounded by flood water near Grafton, in Australia's New South Wales state. Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of the nation's third-largest city, Brisbane, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers. The damaged minibus is seen at the scene after it was attacked by a suicide attacker in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up next to the minibus carrying intelligence service employees in the Afghan capital. The fifth global summit of 'Vibrant Gujarat' opened with great fanfare as the state claimed to have got investment commitments from various corporate houses to the tune of nearly Rs 15 lakh crore on the first day itself. That was not all, the Chief Minister was also hailed as thegreatest thing to have happened to the state after Mahatama Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani. The Congress said the comparison with Mahatama Gandhi was odious. The fifth global summit of 'Vibrant Gujarat' opened with great fanfare as the state claimed to have got investment commitments from various corporate houses to the tune of nearly Rs 15 lakh crore on the first day itself. That was not all, the Chief Minister was also hailed as thegreatest thing to have happened to the state after Mahatama Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani. The Congress said the comparison with Mahatama Gandhi was odious. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi with Rwandan Prime Minister Bernard Makuza at the inaugural ceremony of Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2011 in Gandhinagar. US Vice President Joe Biden, left, meets with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari at the President house in Islamabad. Biden arrived in Pakistan for talks with Pakistani officials on bilateral and security issues. A Pakistani child injured in a roadside bomb receives treatment at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. Two roadside bombs exploded close to a van carrying school children and female teachers, killing two of the teachers, said police officer Tajmir Shah. Seven others were wounded in the blast in a village close to the main city of Peshawar. It was unclear why - or indeed if - the van was targeted. BJP President Nitin Gadkari and party leader Smriti Irani during the start of of Rashtriya Ekta Yatra in Kolkata Actress and social activist Shabana Azmi distributing blankets among poor families in Jaunpur Intellectuals listen to the grievances of residents of Netai village, Lalgarh in West Midnapore district in West Bengal, where suspected armed cadre of the CPI(M) opened fire killing innocent villagers, on Tuesday, Jan 11 Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee seeks blessings from noted singer Dijen Mukherjee (L) during the foundation stone laying ceremony for AC container and coach factory of Eastern Railways at Budge Budge near Kolkata on Tuesday, January 11 World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh after paying a visit to Ganga river in Patna. Zoellick is on a two-day visit to Bihar Masked Palestinian gunmen carry the body of Islamic Jihad militant, Mohammed al-Najjar, during his funeral in the southern Gaza strip town of Khan Younis. On Tuesday, a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft killed al-Najjar who was riding a motorcycle in southern Gaza, the Israeli military said. The military added the militant was planning a major attack on Israel. During the two years since Israel's bruising invasion of Gaza to stop daily rocket attacks, airstrikes aimed at individual militants have been rare. Masked Palestinian gunmen from the Islamic Jihad ride a on a vehicle during the funeral procession of Islamic Jihad militant, Mohammed al-Najjar, in the southern Gaza strip town of Khan Younis. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, is welcomed by Pakistani Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan and U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter, right, upon his arrival at airforce base in Rawalpidi, Pakistan. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets the U.S. troops at Bagram air base, northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. FILE PHOTO: In this photo taken Friday Jan. 7, 2011, isolated residents crowd a Philippine Air Force helicopter delivering relief supplies off Cagraray Island in Albay province in central Philippines. Albay and other provinces in central Philippines have been hit by torrential rains brought by the tail end of the cold front since last month. Disaster officials today said that heavy monsoon rains drenching the eastern Philippines for two weeks have drowned seven more people, pushing the death toll to 40 with seven missing. Firefighters clean the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up next to a minibus carrying intelligence service employees in the Afghan capital. (From L) Bharti Airtel CEO (India & South Asia) Sanjay Kapoor, Chairman and Group MD Sunil Bharti Mittal, State Bank of India Chairman O P Bhatt, Deputy MD R Venkatachalam and Deputy MD Diwakar Gupta exchange documents and join hands after signing a JV agreement SBI and Airtel to make banking services available to underprivileged sections of the society, in New Delhi. A pilgrim looks on as he waits at a transit camp in Kolkata. Thousands of pilgrims are headed to Gangasagar, the confluence of the Ganges river and Bay of Bengal, about 140 kilometers south of Kolkata for the annual holy dip on January 14-15. A man smiles after managing to cross a barbwire during a police recruitment rally in Srinagar. Policemen check documents and measure the height of a youngster at a special recruitment drive for the police force on a cold day at Khanyar in downtown Srinagar. Youngsters waiting for their turn at a special recruitment drive for the police force on a cold day at Khanyar in downtown Srinagar. Many of these youths were believed to have fought pitched battles with police last summer.Khanyar area includes some highly volatile localities where stone-pelters had engaged police and CRPF in running battles during the five-month-long unrest in the Valley last summer. All the youths, who appeared in the recruitment drive, denied have participated in the stone-pelting but a CRPF jawan on duty at the camp claimed he had identified at least 100 youths who had indulged in stone-pelting in different parts of the city. Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, S M Sahai, said if there is a criminal case against anyone, he will not be recruited in the force. Activists of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha burn tyres and shout slogans during their 96-hour strike demanding a separate Gorkhaland state carved out of West Bengal, at Panchanadi near Siliguri. Shah Rukh Khan and Vidya Balan during the Apsara awards in Mumbai. Three men stand at the door of the Lawrence General and Liquor Store at Lawrence, in Australia's New South Wales state, with a boat close at hand as floodwater surrounds them. Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of the nation's third-largest city, Brisbane, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers. An entire shopping mall is submerged outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane. Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of Brisbane, the nation's third-largest city, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers. Rebecca Kadi, center, whose granddaughter Sarah Madi (not visible) says is 115 years old, receives assistance to cast her ballot in southern Sudan's independence referendum in Juba. About four million Southern Sudanese voters began casting their ballots in a week long referendum on independence that is expected to split Africa's largest nation in two. Protesters block traffic near the site of a religious structure that was demolished by DDA in New Delhi. Police lobbed teargas shells and used force to disperse scores of people protesting the demolition of the 'illegal' religious structure in south-east Delhi, according to news reports. Backdrop is an unrelated heritage monument. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick at a function in Patna. Zoellick is on a two-day visit to Bihar. Indian speed skaters pose with their medals after sweeping the men's speed skating event of the South Asian Federation (SAF) Winter Games in Dehradun. Subodh Patil (C) won gold in the event. Civil Defence Force women march as they rehearse for Republic Day celebrations in Kolkata. A worker sorts onions at a wholesale market in Hyderabad. Onion prices have nearly doubled in recent weeks after unseasonable rains damaged the onion and garlic crops in Maharashtra. Actress Anushka Sharma performs during the Apsara awards in Mumbai on Tuesday night Activists of Pakistan's banned religious group Hizb-ut-Tahrir hold a demonstration against the upcoming visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. Biden arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday to meet PakistanÕs top political and military leadership to discuss a wide-range of issues. On Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's killing, Biden said: Societies that tolerate such actions end up being consumed by those actions. Vice Admiral D K Deewan coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC and because the Naval happens to be out of the country, his deputy appeared on his behalf. Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC Actresses Preity Zinta, Neha Dhupia and Malaika Arora at a function Actresses Preity Zinta, Neha Dhupia and Malaika Arora at a function
Jan 12, 2011
Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
The fifth global summit of 'Vibrant Gujarat' opened with great fanfare as the state claimed to have got investment commitments from various corporate houses to the tune of nearly Rs 15 lakh crore on the first day itself. That was not all, the Chief Minister was also hailed as thegreatest thing to have happened to the state after Mahatama Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani. The Congress said the comparison with Mahatama Gandhi was odious.
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Jan 12, 2011
Youngsters waiting for their turn at a special recruitment drive for the police force on a cold day at Khanyar in downtown Srinagar. Many of these youths were believed to have fought pitched battles with police last summer.Khanyar area includes some highly volatile localities where stone-pelters had engaged police and CRPF in running battles during the five-month-long unrest in the Valley last summer. All the youths, who appeared in the recruitment drive, denied have participated in the stone-pelting but a CRPF jawan on duty at the camp claimed he had identified at least 100 youths who had indulged in stone-pelting in different parts of the city. Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, S M Sahai, said "if there is a criminal case against anyone, he will not be recruited in the force."
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Jan 12, 2011
A video image of a scene in the Karnataka assembly in Bangalore
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Jan 12, 2011
Protestors offer namaz (prayer), as they block traffic near the site of a religious structure that was demolished by DDA in New Delhi.
- AP Photo/Gurinder Osan
Jan 12, 2011
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh poses with functionaries of Ramakrishna Mission during inauguration of Swami Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary celebrations at Vigyan Bhawan, in New Delhi
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Iranians carry the coffins of victims of the Sunday's IranAir passenger plane crash, during a funeral ceremony, at the city of Orumiyeh, 700 kilometers northwest of the capital, Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 104 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing on Sunday, Jan. 9, in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing nearly 80 of those on board, Iranian media reported.
- AP/PTI
Jan 12, 2011
Shah Rukh Khan, Vidya Balan (L) and Anushka Sharma (R) during the Apsara awards in Mumbai.
- PTI Photo/Shashank Parade
Jan 12, 2011
Devotees take part in a religious procession at the Golden Temple as they celebrate birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh ji at Golden Temple in Amritsar
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
South Africa's bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe, center, celebrates with teammates after taking a wicket of India's batsman Sachin Tendulkar, unseen, during the first One Day International cricket match against South Africa at the Kingsmead stadium in Durban. South Africa went on to thrash India by 135 runs.
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
A panther was beaten to death by an angry mob at Kheri Gujraan village in Faridabad after it attacked two villagers and injured them
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Wholesale traders staging a dharna for being held responsible for rising prices of vegetables at Azadpur Mandi in New Delhi.
- PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan
Jan 12, 2011
Workers warm their hands around a fire in Hyderabad.
- (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.
Jan 12, 2011
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee flanked by Ministers of State Namo Narain Meena (2nd L), S S Palanimanickam (R) and Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla (L) during a pre-budget consultation with Trade Union Leaders in New Delhi.
- PTI Photo/Atul Yadav
Jan 12, 2011
BJP workers tie black cloths on their mouths as they take out a silent march demanding separate state of Telangana in Hyderabad.
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leader Chitraban Hazarika greets the crowed and media outside the Guwahati central jail after his release in Guwahati.
- AP Photo/Anupam Nath
Jan 12, 2011
A house is surrounded by flood water near Grafton, in Australia's New South Wales state. Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of the nation's third-largest city, Brisbane, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers.
- AP Photo/Wolter Peeters, Pool
Jan 12, 2011
The damaged minibus is seen at the scene after it was attacked by a suicide attacker in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up next to the minibus carrying intelligence service employees in the Afghan capital.
- AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq
Jan 12, 2011
The fifth global summit of 'Vibrant Gujarat' opened with great fanfare as the state claimed to have got investment commitments from various corporate houses to the tune of nearly Rs 15 lakh crore on the first day itself. That was not all, the Chief Minister was also hailed as thegreatest thing to have happened to the state after Mahatama Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani. The Congress said the comparison with Mahatama Gandhi was odious.
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Jan 12, 2011
The fifth global summit of 'Vibrant Gujarat' opened with great fanfare as the state claimed to have got investment commitments from various corporate houses to the tune of nearly Rs 15 lakh crore on the first day itself. That was not all, the Chief Minister was also hailed as thegreatest thing to have happened to the state after Mahatama Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani. The Congress said the comparison with Mahatama Gandhi was odious.
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Jan 12, 2011
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi with Rwandan Prime Minister Bernard Makuza at the inaugural ceremony of Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2011 in Gandhinagar.
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
US Vice President Joe Biden, left, meets with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari at the President house in Islamabad. Biden arrived in Pakistan for talks with Pakistani officials on bilateral and security issues.
- AP Photo/B.K.Bangash
Jan 12, 2011
A Pakistani child injured in a roadside bomb receives treatment at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. Two roadside bombs exploded close to a van carrying school children and female teachers, killing two of the teachers, said police officer Tajmir Shah. Seven others were wounded in the blast in a village close to the main city of Peshawar. It was unclear why - or indeed if - the van was targeted.
- AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal
Jan 12, 2011
BJP President Nitin Gadkari and party leader Smriti Irani during the start of of "Rashtriya Ekta Yatra" in Kolkata
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Jan 12, 2011
Actress and social activist Shabana Azmi distributing blankets among poor families in Jaunpur
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Intellectuals listen to the grievances of residents of Netai village, Lalgarh in West Midnapore district in West Bengal, where suspected armed cadre of the CPI(M) opened fire killing innocent villagers, on Tuesday, Jan 11
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee seeks blessings from noted singer Dijen Mukherjee (L) during the foundation stone laying ceremony for AC container and coach factory of Eastern Railways at Budge Budge near Kolkata on Tuesday, January 11
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Jan 12, 2011
World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh after paying a visit to Ganga river in Patna. Zoellick is on a two-day visit to Bihar
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Masked Palestinian gunmen carry the body of Islamic Jihad militant, Mohammed al-Najjar, during his funeral in the southern Gaza strip town of Khan Younis. On Tuesday, a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft killed al-Najjar who was riding a motorcycle in southern Gaza, the Israeli military said. The military added the militant was planning a major attack on Israel. During the two years since Israel's bruising invasion of Gaza to stop daily rocket attacks, airstrikes aimed at individual militants have been rare.
- AP Photo/Eyad Baba
Jan 12, 2011
Masked Palestinian gunmen from the Islamic Jihad ride a on a vehicle during the funeral procession of Islamic Jihad militant, Mohammed al-Najjar, in the southern Gaza strip town of Khan Younis.
- AP Photo/Eyad Baba
Jan 12, 2011
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, is welcomed by Pakistani Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan and U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter, right, upon his arrival at airforce base in Rawalpidi, Pakistan.
- AP Photo/B.K. Bangash
Jan 12, 2011
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets the U.S. troops at Bagram air base, northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.
- AP Photo/Dusan Vranic
Jan 12, 2011
FILE PHOTO: In this photo taken Friday Jan. 7, 2011, isolated residents crowd a Philippine Air Force helicopter delivering relief supplies off Cagraray Island in Albay province in central Philippines. Albay and other provinces in central Philippines have been hit by torrential rains brought by the tail end of the cold front since last month. Disaster officials today said that heavy monsoon rains drenching the eastern Philippines for two weeks have drowned seven more people, pushing the death toll to 40 with seven missing.
- AP Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Firefighters clean the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up next to a minibus carrying intelligence service employees in the Afghan capital.
- AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq
Jan 12, 2011
(From L) Bharti Airtel CEO (India & South Asia) Sanjay Kapoor, Chairman and Group MD Sunil Bharti Mittal, State Bank of India Chairman O P Bhatt, Deputy MD R Venkatachalam and Deputy MD Diwakar Gupta exchange documents and join hands after signing a JV agreement SBI and Airtel to make banking services available to underprivileged sections of the society, in New Delhi.
- PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore
Jan 12, 2011
A pilgrim looks on as he waits at a transit camp in Kolkata. Thousands of pilgrims are headed to Gangasagar, the confluence of the Ganges river and Bay of Bengal, about 140 kilometers south of Kolkata for the annual holy dip on January 14-15.
- AP Photo/Bikas Das
Jan 12, 2011
A man smiles after managing to cross a barbwire during a police recruitment rally in Srinagar.
- AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan
Jan 12, 2011
Policemen check documents and measure the height of a youngster at a special recruitment drive for the police force on a cold day at Khanyar in downtown Srinagar.
- PTI Photo/S Irfan
Jan 12, 2011
Youngsters waiting for their turn at a special recruitment drive for the police force on a cold day at Khanyar in downtown Srinagar. Many of these youths were believed to have fought pitched battles with police last summer.Khanyar area includes some highly volatile localities where stone-pelters had engaged police and CRPF in running battles during the five-month-long unrest in the Valley last summer. All the youths, who appeared in the recruitment drive, denied have participated in the stone-pelting but a CRPF jawan on duty at the camp claimed he had identified at least 100 youths who had indulged in stone-pelting in different parts of the city. Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, S M Sahai, said "if there is a criminal case against anyone, he will not be recruited in the force."
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Jan 12, 2011
Activists of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha burn tyres and shout slogans during their 96-hour strike demanding a separate Gorkhaland state carved out of West Bengal, at Panchanadi near Siliguri.
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Shah Rukh Khan and Vidya Balan during the Apsara awards in Mumbai.
- PTI Photo/Shashank Parade
Jan 12, 2011
Three men stand at the door of the Lawrence General and Liquor Store at Lawrence, in Australia's New South Wales state, with a boat close at hand as floodwater surrounds them. Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of the nation's third-largest city, Brisbane, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers.
- AP Photo/Wolter Peeters, Pool
Jan 12, 2011
An entire shopping mall is submerged outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane. Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of Brisbane, the nation's third-largest city, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers.
- AP Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Rebecca Kadi, center, whose granddaughter Sarah Madi (not visible) says is 115 years old, receives assistance to cast her ballot in southern Sudan's independence referendum in Juba. About four million Southern Sudanese voters began casting their ballots in a week long referendum on independence that is expected to split Africa's largest nation in two.
- AP Photo/Pete Muller
Jan 12, 2011
Protesters block traffic near the site of a religious structure that was demolished by DDA in New Delhi. Police lobbed teargas shells and used force to disperse scores of people protesting the demolition of the 'illegal' religious structure in south-east Delhi, according to news reports. Backdrop is an unrelated heritage monument.
- AP Photo/Gurinder Osan
Jan 12, 2011
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick at a function in Patna. Zoellick is on a two-day visit to Bihar.
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Indian speed skaters pose with their medals after sweeping the men's speed skating event of the South Asian Federation (SAF) Winter Games in Dehradun. Subodh Patil (C) won gold in the event.
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Civil Defence Force women march as they rehearse for Republic Day celebrations in Kolkata.
- AP Photo/Bikas Das
Jan 12, 2011
A worker sorts onions at a wholesale market in Hyderabad. Onion prices have nearly doubled in recent weeks after unseasonable rains damaged the onion and garlic crops in Maharashtra.
- AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.
Jan 12, 2011
Actress Anushka Sharma performs during the "Apsara" awards in Mumbai on Tuesday night
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Activists of Pakistan's banned religious group Hizb-ut-Tahrir hold a demonstration against the upcoming visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. Biden arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday to meet PakistanÕs top political and military leadership to discuss a wide-range of issues. On Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's killing, Biden said: "Societies that tolerate such actions end up being consumed by those actions."
- AP/PTI
Jan 12, 2011
Vice Admiral D K Deewan coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC and because the Naval happens to be out of the country, his deputy appeared on his behalf.
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Army chief General V K Singh and Air Chief Marshal P V Naik coming out after appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee over alleged irregularities in defence-run canteens. This was a first first instance of its kind when serving defence chiefs were asked to appear before a PAC
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Actresses Preity Zinta, Neha Dhupia and Malaika Arora at a function
- PTI Photo
Jan 12, 2011
Actresses Preity Zinta, Neha Dhupia and Malaika Arora at a function
- PTI Photo
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