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Jan 10, 2012
It took more than two days for the UP administration to get its act together and organise carefully chosen pink plastic (so that the choice of colour did not reflect any one political party) for the jumbo cover-up ordered by the election commission on January 7. The EC had ordered that the statues of Mayawati and her party symbol elephants were built using public money and their display violated the Model Code of Conduct for the upcoming elections in UP. Meanwhile, a PIL was moved in the Allahabad HC challenging the decision, on the grounds that elephant is a symbol of Hinduism and hence should not be disrespected in this fashion. Call it the Streisand Effect—an attempt to hide something which has the inverse effect of publicising what you are trying to hide some more—but covered up or not, it ain't easy hiding those elephants away
- AP Photo/ Tsering Topgyal

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India 2012
It took more than two days for the UP administration to get its act together and organise carefully chosen pink plastic (so that the choice of colour did not reflect any one political party) for the jumbo cover-up ordered by the election commission on January 7. The EC had ordered that the statues of Mayawati and her party symbol elephants were built using public money and their display violated the Model Code of Conduct for the upcoming elections in UP. Meanwhile, a PIL was moved in the Allahabad HC challenging the decision, on the grounds that elephant is a symbol of Hinduism and hence should not be disrespected in this fashion. Call it the Streisand Effect—an attempt to hide something which has the inverse effect of publicising what you are trying to hide some more—but covered up or not, it ain't easy hiding those elephants away Police take away Tibetan Youth Congress members in a bus during their protest against Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo's visit to India, outside Hyderabad House in New Delhi. A bull tamer is run over by a bull during Jallikattu, a bull-taming sport played as part of the harvest festival of Pongal, in Palamedu near Chennai. At least 72 competitors were hurt, 11 of them seriously in the event which was cut short after a section of spectators turned violent and clashed with police resulting in the injury to 40 more people. Disaster response personnel search as onlookers gather around derailed cars of a passenger train following an accident at Sathi Sarapa village near Guwahati. 3 persons were killed and over 50 injured when a passenger train derailed after hitting an earth-cutting vehicle at an unmanned railway crossing. People crowd around a bus that plunged into a river as it is pulled out by a crane from the Kalvi River, about 30 kilometers from Goa's capital of Panaji. Police say a school bus plunged into a river and at least seven people were killed. Rescuers recovered the bodies of six children and one adult. Devotees offering prayers to Lord Shiva on the occasion of Maha Shivratri festival at a temple in Allahabad. Kingfisher airlines aircraft's stand parked as a China airlines aircraft taxis on the runway at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. Struggling to stay afloat after cancelling large number of flights, Kingfisher Airlines was rapped by DGCA for not adhering to its flight schedules but the aviation regulator made it clear there were no plans to take any punitive action against it for the moment. Army barracks buried under snow at Sonamarg in central Kashmir. A total of seventeen soldiers were killed when two avalanches hit Army camps at Sonamarg and at Gurez in Kashmir. A TV grab of the 22-year-old woman, Nalina Reddy, who volunteered for a mock fire rescue drill on the premises of a private garment factory fell to her death after the rope by which she was coming down snapped. The mock drill was conducted by the state fire services department in the industrial suburb. Worshipers from Barsana are sprayed with colored water by men from Nandgaon during Lathmar Holi at Nandagram Temple, in Nandgaon. Priests and devotees celebrate Holi at Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan near Mathura. Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal and Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel, during the launch of India's first 4G service in Kolkata. Army trucks carrying supplies for soldiers pass through the Zojila Pass,108 kilometers north of Srinagar. The Srinagar-Leh National Highway connecting Ladakh to the Kashmir valley was re-opened to traffic after remaining closed for six months. The highway passes through the 3510 meter-high Zojila Pass which lies on the lower depressions of the Himalayan range. Rescue work in progress, a day after a ferry, with over 350 people on board, capsized in heavy storm in Brahmaputra river in Dhubri district, Assam. Rescuers searched without any result today for the over 100 missing even as the Centre got in touch with Bangladesh to locate bodies that may have washed downstream to the neighbouring country. Uprooted coconut trees and a damaged electric poll after a storm in Chikmagalur in Karnataka. Devotees throng around the chariots as they wait to pull them during the annual festival of Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra, at Puri, Orissa. Devotees participate in the annual festival of Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra, in Puri, Orissa. For the flag and the country. Some government staff brave the fire and the smoke to remove the Indian tricolour from the top of the Mantralaya — headquarters of the Maharashtra state government after it caught in fire in Mumbai. Hundreds of employees were evacuated from the seven-storey government building as more than two dozen fire engines battled a major fire that raged for more than three hours in the country's financial and entertainment capital. Devotees on the way to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath, at Baltal. A truck is struck at the flooded national highway 31 at Chepte in Kamrup district, Assam. File Photo: BSF women constables take part in the 'Beating the Retreat Ceremony' at Indo-Pak Attari-Wagah border near Amritsar on July 22, 2010. The Times of India (TOI) quoted Border Security Force (BSF) Inspector-General (Frontier) Aditya Mishra as having told the newspaper recently that Pakistan has also agreed to women platoon commanders for the beating retreat ceremony. Stranded tourists sleeping on a road which was closed after a landslide in Kullu in Himachal Pradesh. People take part in snake boats race at the Champakulam Lake in Alappuzha, Kerala. People boarding an overcrowded train at Chandausi Railway Station in Bheem Nagar on World Population Day. In this photo taken Friday, July 6, 2012, residents crowd around a government tanker delivering drinking water because of short supply in running water taps in New Delhi. Many areas of the capital are facing acute water shortage, a repeated annual phenomenon during summer when taps go dry as demand rises. Villagers wade through flood-water after heavy rains on the outskirts of Siliguri. People gather to watch river water that washed away a bridge as a flash flood strikes in Uttarkashi district. Ten people were killed and 38 others went missing as incessant rains battered Uttarakhand today triggering landslides, cloud bursts and flash floods which flattened homes and stranded hundreds of pilgrims with the Chardham Yatra coming to a grinding halt. The flooded Bhagirathi River washing away houses and shops after flash floods in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand. Vehicles stranded in mud on a highway after cloud burst and heavy rains in Uttarkashi. Devotees form a human pyramid to break the Dahi handi, as part of celebrations to mark Janmashtami in Mumbai. Devotees form a human pyramid to break the Dahi handi, as part of celebrations to mark Janmashtami in Mumbai. Muslims take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers at Jama Masjid in New Delhi. Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Osamu Suzuki, left, goes through the site map during his visit to the proposed site for Maruti Suzuki India Ltd’s (MSIL) manufacturing facility at Hansalpur near Mehsana, about 110 kilometers North of Ahmedabad. The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India, a subsidiary of Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp., will build the new manufacturing facility in Gujarat by 2015-16. People walk past a shop named Hitler in Ahmadabad. After members of the Jewish community urged for a change in the name of the store, Rajesh Shah, one of the owners, said that he would make the change if compensated for re-branding costs. Congress workers chase away a policewoman during a protest over coal blocks allocation in Bhubaneswar. People help an injured police woman after a clash between Congress workers and the police during a protest over coal blocks allocation, in Bhubaneswar. A Mumbai Court remanded anti-corruption cartoonist and free speech campaigner Aseem Trivedi to police custody till September 16 for allegedly making cartoons that insult India's flag, Parliament and the national emblem, although Trivedi explained that the cartoons intended to display the insult to the nation that is being done by politicians, and do not seek to insult national symbols in any way. Indira Sagar Dam affected people standing in the reservoir water of the dam at Narmada river on the 14th day of their 'Jal Satyagrah' agitation for proper compensation and rehabilitation, at Khardana village in Harda district on Madhya Pradesh. Anti-nuclear activists stand in sea waters forming a human chain, protesting against the atomic power plant, off nearby Indinthakarai coast, in Tamil Nadu. Taking a leaf from 'Jal Satyagraha' activists in Madhya Pradesh, the activists of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy stood in the waters close to the shores in a new turn to their year-long protests. A vehicle stuck in rubbles at Okhimath after flash floods in Rudraprayag district in Uttarakhand. Rescue work is carried out in a village after dozens of homes were washed away by heavy rains and flash floods in Rudraprayag district in Uttarakhand. Villagers at a landslide site in Pegong, North Sikkim. Rhinoceros stand in the flood water at Kaziranga wildlife sanctuary in Assam. Floodwaters have also submerged 70 per cent of the kaziranga Wildlfe Sanctuary forcing rhinos and other wild animals to shelter in the woodland of the park located at a higher altitude. Devotees crowd around an idol of Lord Ganesh being carried for immersion in the sea on the final day of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai. Devotees hold earthen lamps as they take part in the 'Maha Arti' during Navratri festival in Gandhinagar on Monday night. An idol of goddess Durga is immersed into the River Ganges on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata. The five-day festival, commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, 10-armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. Subroto Roy, chairman of Sahara India Pariwar and Force India team principal Vijay Mallya chat before the start of the Indian Formula One Grand Prix, at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi Twitter user HariKishore23 put this photo up on his Twitterfeed saying Transformer broken down due to building collapse near my home. The cyclone Nilam hit the Tamil Nadu coast this evening at 100 km per hour. Rescue personnel holding a rope in a flooded area hit by the cyclone Nilam in Vizag district. At least 25 people were killed in in rain-related incidents in different districts in the last three days, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who reviewed the flood situation in the state with his Cabinet colleagues, was informed. Crowd of devotees at Adalat Ghat where a bamboo bridge on Ganga river collapsed after a stampede during Chhat Puja in Patna. Chhath worshippers, who are still under a shock following the stampede at Adalat Ghat on the bank of the Ganga in which 17 persons lost their lives, blamed the district administration for poor arrangement. Fireworks light the sky above the illuminated Golden Temple during the birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev, in Amritsar. New recruits of Border Security Force during their passing out parade at Humhama on the outskirts of Srinagar. A man jumps off a water-tank to commit suicide in Ghaziabad allegedly over corruption and poor economic conditions in the country. Police uses water cannons to disperse protesters who gathered at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi to demand justice for the gang rape victim. Policemen use tear gas shells and water canon to disperse protesters during a march towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi demanding justice for the 23-year-old gangrape victim. The young students had gathered to demand justice for the 23-year-old gangrape victim. They did not get a hearing, what they got at the Raisina Hill near President house, New Delhi, instead was the police jackboot: lathicharge, water cannons, tear gas shells A student tries to hit a policeman with an iron rod during a protest in New Delhi. Police used tear gas and water cannons to push back thousands of people who tried to march to Rashtrapati Bhawan to protest the recent gang rape and brutal beating of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus. <b>Anger Spills</b> Soaked to the bone, protesters cower in the face of police water cannons near Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi. Triggered by the gangrape of a 23-year-old student on December 16, they were among thousands demanding better safety for women. <p> <i>“When I see the emotional outbursts on the streets on TV... it’s hard to digest this is my sister they are talking about.”</i> <p> <b>Brother of the Delhi gangrape victim</b> <b>Hate crush</b> It’s a train from Bangalore, their place of work. Terror-stuck Northeastern people rush out in Guwahati station. <p> <i>“We RSS members are trying to build confidence in Northeasterners. We tell them we’re all brothers, they need not worry.”</i> <p> <b>Karunakaira Rai RSS representative in Bangalore</b> Indian cricket fans wear masks of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and stand in a queue to enter the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, venue of the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Ahmadabad.
Jan 10, 2012
It took more than two days for the UP administration to get its act together and organise carefully chosen pink plastic (so that the choice of colour did not reflect any one political party) for the jumbo cover-up ordered by the election commission on January 7. The EC had ordered that the statues of Mayawati and her party symbol elephants were built using public money and their display violated the Model Code of Conduct for the upcoming elections in UP. Meanwhile, a PIL was moved in the Allahabad HC challenging the decision, on the grounds that elephant is a symbol of Hinduism and hence should not be disrespected in this fashion. Call it the Streisand Effect—an attempt to hide something which has the inverse effect of publicising what you are trying to hide some more—but covered up or not, it ain't easy hiding those elephants away
- AP Photo/ Tsering Topgyal
Jan 17, 2012
Police take away Tibetan Youth Congress members in a bus during their protest against Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo's visit to India, outside Hyderabad House in New Delhi.
- PTI Photo/Vijay Verma
Jan 18, 2012
A bull tamer is run over by a bull during Jallikattu, a bull-taming sport played as part of the harvest festival of Pongal, in Palamedu near Chennai. At least 72 competitors were hurt, 11 of them seriously in the event which was cut short after a section of spectators turned violent and clashed with police resulting in the injury to 40 more people.
- AP Photo/ Arun Sankar K.
Feb 03, 2012
Disaster response personnel search as onlookers gather around derailed cars of a passenger train following an accident at Sathi Sarapa village near Guwahati. 3 persons were killed and over 50 injured when a passenger train derailed after hitting an earth-cutting vehicle at an unmanned railway crossing.
- AP Photo/ Anupam Nath
Feb 18, 2012
People crowd around a bus that plunged into a river as it is pulled out by a crane from the Kalvi River, about 30 kilometers from Goa's capital of Panaji. Police say a school bus plunged into a river and at least seven people were killed. Rescuers recovered the bodies of six children and one adult.
- AP Photo
Feb 20, 2012
Devotees offering prayers to Lord Shiva on the occasion of Maha Shivratri festival at a temple in Allahabad.
- PTI Photo
Feb 21, 2012
Kingfisher airlines aircraft's stand parked as a China airlines aircraft taxis on the runway at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. Struggling to stay afloat after cancelling large number of flights, Kingfisher Airlines was rapped by DGCA for not adhering to its flight schedules but the aviation regulator made it clear there were no plans to take any punitive action against it for the moment.
- AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi
Feb 24, 2012
Army barracks buried under snow at Sonamarg in central Kashmir. A total of seventeen soldiers were killed when two avalanches hit Army camps at Sonamarg and at Gurez in Kashmir.
- PTI Photo
Feb 24, 2012
A TV grab of the 22-year-old woman, Nalina Reddy, who volunteered for a mock fire rescue drill on the premises of a private garment factory fell to her death after the rope by which she was coming down snapped. The mock drill was conducted by the state fire services department in the industrial suburb.
- TV Grab/ IBNlive
Mar 03, 2012
Worshipers from Barsana are sprayed with colored water by men from Nandgaon during Lathmar Holi at Nandagram Temple, in Nandgaon.
- AP Photo/ Kevin Frayer
Mar 07, 2012
Priests and devotees celebrate Holi at Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan near Mathura.
- PTI Photo
Apr 10, 2012
Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal and Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel, during the launch of India's first 4G service in Kolkata.
- PTI Photo/ Swapan Mahapatra
Apr 25, 2012
Army trucks carrying supplies for soldiers pass through the Zojila Pass,108 kilometers north of Srinagar. The Srinagar-Leh National Highway connecting Ladakh to the Kashmir valley was re-opened to traffic after remaining closed for six months. The highway passes through the 3510 meter-high Zojila Pass which lies on the lower depressions of the Himalayan range.
- AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan
May 01, 2012
Rescue work in progress, a day after a ferry, with over 350 people on board, capsized in heavy storm in Brahmaputra river in Dhubri district, Assam. Rescuers searched without any result today for the over 100 missing even as the Centre got in touch with Bangladesh to locate bodies that may have washed downstream to the neighbouring country.
- PTI Photo
May 11, 2012

- Shankar, Copyright: Children's Book Trust
Jun 18, 2012
Uprooted coconut trees and a damaged electric poll after a storm in Chikmagalur in Karnataka.
- PTI Photo
Jun 21, 2012
Devotees throng around the chariots as they wait to pull them during the annual festival of "Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra," at Puri, Orissa.
- AP Photo/ Biswaranjan Rout
Jun 21, 2012
Devotees participate in the annual festival of Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra, in Puri, Orissa.
- AP Photo/ Biswaranjan Rout
Jun 21, 2012
For the flag and the country. Some government staff brave the fire and the smoke to remove the Indian tricolour from the top of the Mantralaya — headquarters of the Maharashtra state government after it caught in fire in Mumbai. Hundreds of employees were evacuated from the seven-storey government building as more than two dozen fire engines battled a major fire that raged for more than three hours in the country's financial and entertainment capital.
- AP
Jun 25, 2012
Devotees on the way to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath, at Baltal.
- PTI Photo
Jun 29, 2012
A truck is struck at the flooded national highway 31 at Chepte in Kamrup district, Assam.
- PTI Photo
Jun 30, 2012
File Photo: BSF women constables take part in the 'Beating the Retreat Ceremony' at Indo-Pak Attari-Wagah border near Amritsar on July 22, 2010. The Times of India (TOI) quoted Border Security Force (BSF) Inspector-General (Frontier) Aditya Mishra as having told the newspaper recently that Pakistan has also agreed to women platoon commanders for the beating retreat ceremony.
- PTI File Photo
Jul 02, 2012
Stranded tourists sleeping on a road which was closed after a landslide in Kullu in Himachal Pradesh.
- PTI Photo
Jul 04, 2012
People take part in snake boats race at the Champakulam Lake in Alappuzha, Kerala.
- PTI Photo
Jul 11, 2012
People boarding an overcrowded train at Chandausi Railway Station in Bheem Nagar on World Population Day.
- PTI Photo
Jul 13, 2012
In this photo taken Friday, July 6, 2012, residents crowd around a government tanker delivering drinking water because of short supply in running water taps in New Delhi. Many areas of the capital are facing acute water shortage, a repeated annual phenomenon during summer when taps go dry as demand rises.
- AP Photo/ Kevin Frayer
Jul 16, 2012
Villagers wade through flood-water after heavy rains on the outskirts of Siliguri.
- PTI Photo
Jul 26, 2012

- T. Narayan
Aug 04, 2012
People gather to watch river water that washed away a bridge as a flash flood strikes in Uttarkashi district. Ten people were killed and 38 others went missing as incessant rains battered Uttarakhand today triggering landslides, cloud bursts and flash floods which flattened homes and stranded hundreds of pilgrims with the Chardham Yatra coming to a grinding halt.
- AP Photo
Aug 06, 2012
The flooded Bhagirathi River washing away houses and shops after flash floods in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand.
- PTI Photo
Aug 07, 2012
Vehicles stranded in mud on a highway after cloud burst and heavy rains in Uttarkashi.
- PTI Photo
Aug 10, 2012
Devotees form a human pyramid to break the "Dahi handi," as part of celebrations to mark Janmashtami in Mumbai.
- AP Photo/ Rafiq Maqbool
Aug 10, 2012
Devotees form a human pyramid to break the "Dahi handi," as part of celebrations to mark Janmashtami in Mumbai.
- AP Photo/ Rajanish Kakade
Aug 20, 2012
Muslims take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers at Jama Masjid in New Delhi.
- AP Photo/ Kevin Frayer
Aug 25, 2012
Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Osamu Suzuki, left, goes through the site map during his visit to the proposed site for Maruti Suzuki India Ltd’s (MSIL) manufacturing facility at Hansalpur near Mehsana, about 110 kilometers North of Ahmedabad. The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India, a subsidiary of Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp., will build the new manufacturing facility in Gujarat by 2015-16.
- AP Photo/ Ajit Solanki
Sep 04, 2012
People walk past a shop named "Hitler" in Ahmadabad. After members of the Jewish community urged for a change in the name of the store, Rajesh Shah, one of the owners, said that he would make the change if compensated for re-branding costs.
- AP Photo/ Ajit Solanki
Sep 06, 2012
Congress workers chase away a policewoman during a protest over coal blocks allocation in Bhubaneswar.
- PTI Photo
Sep 06, 2012
People help an injured police woman after a clash between Congress workers and the police during a protest over coal blocks allocation, in Bhubaneswar.
- PTI Photo
Sep 09, 2012
A Mumbai Court remanded anti-corruption cartoonist and free speech campaigner Aseem Trivedi to police custody till September 16 for allegedly making cartoons that insult India's flag, Parliament and the national emblem, although Trivedi explained that the cartoons intended to display the insult to the nation that is being done by politicians, and do not seek to insult national symbols in any way.
- Photo Courtesy: Alok Dixit
Sep 11, 2012
Indira Sagar Dam affected people standing in the reservoir water of the dam at Narmada river on the 14th day of their 'Jal Satyagrah' agitation for proper compensation and rehabilitation, at Khardana village in Harda district on Madhya Pradesh.
- PTI Photo
Sep 13, 2012
Anti-nuclear activists stand in sea waters forming a human chain, protesting against the atomic power plant, off nearby Indinthakarai coast, in Tamil Nadu. Taking a leaf from 'Jal Satyagraha' activists in Madhya Pradesh, the activists of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy stood in the waters close to the shores in a new turn to their year-long protests.
- AP Photo/ Rafiq Maqbool
Sep 14, 2012
A vehicle stuck in rubbles at Okhimath after flash floods in Rudraprayag district in Uttarakhand.
- PTI Photo
Sep 16, 2012
Rescue work is carried out in a village after dozens of homes were washed away by heavy rains and flash floods in Rudraprayag district in Uttarakhand.
- PTI Photo
Sep 23, 2012
Villagers at a landslide site in Pegong, North Sikkim.
- PTI Photo
Sep 23, 2012
Rhinoceros stand in the flood water at Kaziranga wildlife sanctuary in Assam. Floodwaters have also submerged 70 per cent of the kaziranga Wildlfe Sanctuary forcing rhinos and other wild animals to shelter in the woodland of the park located at a higher altitude.
- PTI Photo
Sep 29, 2012
Devotees crowd around an idol of Lord Ganesh being carried for immersion in the sea on the final day of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai.
- AP Photo/ Rajanish Kakade
Oct 23, 2012
Devotees hold earthen lamps as they take part in the 'Maha Arti' during Navratri festival in Gandhinagar on Monday night.
- PTI Photo
Oct 24, 2012
An idol of goddess Durga is immersed into the River Ganges on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata. The five-day festival, commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, 10-armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil.
- AP Photo/Bikas Das
Oct 28, 2012
Subroto Roy, chairman of Sahara India Pariwar and Force India team principal Vijay Mallya chat before the start of the Indian Formula One Grand Prix, at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi
- AP Photo/Manish Swarup
Oct 31, 2012
Twitter user HariKishore23 put this photo up on his Twitterfeed saying "Transformer broken down due to building collapse near my home." The cyclone Nilam hit the Tamil Nadu coast this evening at 100 km per hour.
- Courtsey Twitter
Nov 05, 2012
Rescue personnel holding a rope in a flooded area hit by the cyclone Nilam in Vizag district. At least 25 people were killed in in rain-related incidents in different districts in the last three days, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who reviewed the flood situation in the state with his Cabinet colleagues, was informed.
- PTI Photo
Nov 20, 2012
Crowd of devotees at Adalat Ghat where a bamboo bridge on Ganga river collapsed after a stampede during Chhat Puja in Patna. Chhath worshippers, who are still under a shock following the stampede at Adalat Ghat on the bank of the Ganga in which 17 persons lost their lives, blamed the district administration for "poor arrangement".
- PTI Photo
Nov 28, 2012
Fireworks light the sky above the illuminated Golden Temple during the birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev, in Amritsar.
- AP Photo/Sanjeev Syal
Dec 07, 2012
New recruits of Border Security Force during their passing out parade at Humhama on the outskirts of Srinagar.
- PTI Photo
Dec 12, 2012
A man jumps off a water-tank to commit suicide in Ghaziabad allegedly over corruption and poor economic conditions in the country.
- PTI Photo
Dec 22, 2012
Police uses water cannons to disperse protesters who gathered at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi to demand justice for the gang rape victim.
- PTI Photo/ Vijay Verma
Dec 22, 2012
Policemen use tear gas shells and water canon to disperse protesters during a march towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi demanding justice for the 23-year-old gangrape victim.
- AP Photo/ Tsering Topgyal
Dec 22, 2012
The young students had gathered to demand justice for the 23-year-old gangrape victim. They did not get a hearing, what they got at the Raisina Hill near President house, New Delhi, instead was the police jackboot: lathicharge, water cannons, tear gas shells
- Sanjay Rawat
Dec 22, 2012
A student tries to hit a policeman with an iron rod during a protest in New Delhi. Police used tear gas and water cannons to push back thousands of people who tried to march to Rashtrapati Bhawan to protest the recent gang rape and brutal beating of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus.
- AP Photo/ Altaf Qadri
Dec 26, 2012
Anger Spills Soaked to the bone, protesters cower in the face of police water cannons near Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi. Triggered by the gangrape of a 23-year-old student on December 16, they were among thousands demanding better safety for women.

“When I see the emotional outbursts on the streets on TV... it’s hard to digest this is my sister they are talking about.”

Brother of the Delhi gangrape victim
- Raveendran/AFP (From Outlook 14 January 2013)

Dec 26, 2012
Hate crush It’s a train from Bangalore, their place of work. Terror-stuck Northeastern people rush out in Guwahati station.

“We RSS members are trying to build confidence in Northeasterners. We tell them we’re all brothers, they need not worry.”

Karunakaira Rai RSS representative in Bangalore
- Anupam Nath/AP

Dec 28, 2012
Indian cricket fans wear masks of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and stand in a queue to enter the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, venue of the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Ahmadabad.
- AP Photo/Ajit Solanki
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