Jan 05, 2011
CWG Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi arrives at CBI headquarters for questioning in connection with alleged irregularities in the Games projects in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/ Manvender VashistJan 05, 2011
Members of the NGO, Nirman Noida, and students hold placards demanding justice for domestic help Hemraj who was killled in the Aarushi double murder case, in Noida.
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PTI PHOTOJan 05, 2011
Sanjeev Aggarwal, MD of Helion Investment Advisors and a victim of the Rs 300 crore fraud in Citi Bank's Gurgaon branch, files an FIR in connection with the fraud, in Gurgaon.
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PTI PhotoJan 05, 2011
Security personnel patrol a street during a high alert in Srinagar a day after a Police Station House Officer and his bodyguard were seriously injured in an attack by militants.
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PTI PhotoJan 05, 2011
People warming themselves around a fire on a biting cold day in Ayodhya.
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PTI PhotoJan 05, 2011
A boatman breaks ice with the paddle in the partially frozen Dal Lake in Srinagar. The lake water was frozen partially as the cold wave continues in the Valley.
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PTI Photo/ S IrfanJan 05, 2011
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, center, and his Interior Minister Rehman Malik, right, arrive to attend the funeral of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer in Lahore, Pakistan.Thousands of Pakistani police were on high alert in Lahore ahead of the funeral for an outspoken provincial governor shot dead by a bodyguard reportedly enraged by his opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam. Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, a high-profile, 66-year-old businessman and media tycoon, was a stalwart of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, and his assassination sent nuclear-armed Pakistan reeling at a time of great political turmoil.
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AP/PTIJan 05, 2011
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, center, the accused killer of Punjab's Gov. Salman Taseer, arrives at court, in Islamabad, Pakistan. More than 500 Muslim scholars praised the man suspected of killing a Pakistani governor because the politician opposed blasphemy laws that mandate death for those convicted of insulting Islam. The group of scholars and clerics known as Jamaat Ahle Sunnat is affiliated with a moderate school of Islam and represents the mainstream Barelvi sect. The group said in a statement that no one should pray for Taseer or express regret for his murder.
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AP/PTIJan 05, 2011
Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah and J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah addressing a press conference in Jammu.
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PTI Photo Jan 05, 2011
Policemen confiscate an effigy of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati from agitating youth activists of Samajwadi Party Allahabad.
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Commando of Pakistan's Elite force Mumtaz Qadri, right, who allegedly killed Punjab's governor Salman Taseer sits in a police custody in Islamabad, Pakistan. An intelligence official interrogating the suspect, identified as Mumtaz Qadri, told that the bearded elite force police commando was boasting about the assassination, saying he was proud to have killed a blasphemer. The governor of Pakistan's powerful Punjab province was shot dead by one of his guards in the Pakistani capital. The killing was the most high-profile assassination of a political figure in Pakistan since the slaying of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on December 2007.
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AP/PTI Jan 05, 2011
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram shares a light moment with C Rangarajan (L), Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, during the Financial Inclusion Day function in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/ Vijay Kumar Joshi Jan 05, 2011
A Pakistani mother buries her child in mud during the solar eclipse in Karachi, Pakistan. Superstitious people hope that burying ailing person during solar eclipse will cure them.
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Jan 05, 2011
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh cuts a cake as he celebrates his 77th birthday with his supporters in Lucknow.
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PTI Photo/ Nand Kumar Jan 05, 2011
Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Salman Khurshid poses next to the statue of the bull outside the Bombay Stock Exchange during a meeting on "Sustainable Growth" on the occasion of "India Corporate Week" at BSE in Mumbai.
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PTI Photo/ Vishal Kelkar Jan 05, 2011
Schoolstudents watch the display during a science exhibition oganised during the “98th Indian Science Congress”, at a school in Chennai.
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A baby elephant, which fell in a pit, being rescued by forest officials at Banta village near Ranchi.
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Artists preparing themselves for a performance during the 16th Youth Festival in Bhopal.
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PTI PhotoJan 05, 2011
Afghan immigrants with their lips sewn together, during a hunger strike in central Athens. Six Afghans have sewn their lips as part of the protest, to pressure the Greek government into granting them refugee status. Human rights activists condemned the government's "inhuman" plan for a border fence to stem the flood of illegal immigrants entering from Turkey, and urged Athens to ease its strict asylum policy. The country currently rejects more than 99 percent of all asylum requests tabled every year.
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AP/PTIJan 05, 2011
Former Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy addresses supporters during his 'Odarpu Yatra' in Vishakhapatnam.
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PTI Photo Jan 05, 2011
Latoya Jackson arriives at a Los Angeles Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. A prosecutor has opened a hearing that will determine whether Michael Jackson's doctor will stand trial in the superstar's death by saying the pop superstar was already dead by the time help was summoned. Dr. Conrad Murray appeared in a Los Angeles court to begin a multi-day hearing where prosecutors will lay out some of their evidence to support an involuntary manslaughter charge.
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AP/PTIJan 05, 2011
Students of Telangana region hold placards during a protest in front of the Andhra Pradesh Bhavan in New Delhi.
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Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla along with a delegation of the community members arrive for a meeting with Rajasthan ministers regarding their demand for 5% reservation in jobs, in Jaipur.
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PTI PhotoJan 05, 2011
Members of PDCI form a human chain as they block the road at Esplanade during a protest against the West Bengal government in Kolkata.
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PTI Photo/Ashok BhaumikJan 05, 2011
South African batsman Jacques Kallis, left, looks back as he plays a shot during the third test against India in Cape Town, South Africa.
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AP/PTIJan 05, 2011
India’s Somdev Devvarman reacts after losing his match against Belgium’s David Goffin in the first round of the Chennai Open 2011.
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PTI Photo/R Senthil KumarJan 05, 2011
Security personnel patrol a street during a high alert in Srinagar a day after a Station House Officer (SHO) and his bodyguard were seriously injured in an attack by militants, in Srinagar.
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PTI PHOTOJan 05, 2011
Actor Amitabh Bhachan enjoys speedboat ride with his grand son near Benaulim beach in Goa on Tuesday Jan. 03, 2011.
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PTI Photo Jan 05, 2011
World number two tennis player Roger Federer, from Switzerland returns the ball to Marco Chiudinelli from Switzerland during the Qatar ATP Open Tennis tournament in Doha, Qatar.
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AP/PTIJan 05, 2011
Czech tennis player Tomas Berdych returns the ball to his Croatian opponent Ivan Dodig (unseen), during their men's singles second round match at the ATP Chennai Open. Tomas Berdych won the match 6-2, 6-4.
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PTI Photo/R Senthil KumarJan 05, 2011
Security personnel keep vigil as students walk by on the eve of the Andhra Pradesh political parties' meeting in New Delhi to discuss the Justice B N Srikrishna Committee report on Telangana, near the Osmania University in Hyderabad.
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PTI PhotoJan 05, 2011
BCCI Secretary N Srinivasan leaves after the IPL governing council meeting, in Mumbai.
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PTI Photo/Santosh HirlekarJan 05, 2011
Rescue workers carry an ailing person to a helicopter as airlifting of victims of the heavy snowfall begins, at Keylong near Kullu in Himachal Pradesh.
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PTI Photo Jan 05, 2011
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi comes out of CBI headquarters after eight hours of questioning on alleged financial irregularities in the conduct of the Games, in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/Manvender VashistJan 05, 2011
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President Pratibha Patil at Benaulim beach in South Goa.
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Former Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy with supporters during his "Odarpu yatra" in Vishakhapatnam.
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PTI PhotoJan 05, 2011
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee leaves after a meeting with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, senior leaders of Congress and party MPs of the Telangana region on the eve of the release of the Justice Srikrishna Committee report on Telangana, in New Delhi.
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PTI Photo/ Subhav ShuklaJan 05, 2011
TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu speaks at the all party meeting at NTR Trust Bhawan in Hyderabad.
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Ghelot speaks to the media persons after meeting with the Gujjar leader Col. Kirori Singh Bainsla, over the latter's demand for reservation in government jobs, in Jaipur.
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Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla and other community leaders gesture after a meeting with Rajasthan ministers regarding their demand for 5% reservation in jobs, in Jaipur.
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