• An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier carries a rocket launcher as he takes up position with colleagues at an outpost along a fence at the India-Pakistan border in R.S Pora south-west of Jammu. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP
    An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier carries a rocket launcher as he takes up position with colleagues at an outpost along a fence at the India-Pakistan border in R.S Pora south-west of Jammu. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP
  • Schoolgirls visit a pandal, or a temporary platform, with a giant idol of Hindu goddess Durga ahead of the Durga Puja festival in Guwahati, India. Anuwar Hazarika / Reuters
    Schoolgirls visit a pandal, or a temporary platform, with a giant idol of Hindu goddess Durga ahead of the Durga Puja festival in Guwahati, India. Anuwar Hazarika / Reuters
  • People dressed in traditional attire perform the Garba dance, to appease Goddess Durga, in a religious event named, 'Abhivyakti 2016' during the nine-day long Navratri festival in Bhopal. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA
    People dressed in traditional attire perform the Garba dance, to appease Goddess Durga, in a religious event named, 'Abhivyakti 2016' during the nine-day long Navratri festival in Bhopal. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA
  • A Kashmiri man pulls up a fishing net as he sits on a traditional boat during sunset on the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Dar Yasin / AP Photo
    A Kashmiri man pulls up a fishing net as he sits on a traditional boat during sunset on the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Dar Yasin / AP Photo
  • India's captain Virat Kohli (2nd R) celebrates with his teammates after the dismissal of New Zealand's Ross Taylor. Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters
    India's captain Virat Kohli (2nd R) celebrates with his teammates after the dismissal of New Zealand's Ross Taylor. Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters
  • Police and rescue workers look for survivors in the rubble at the site of a collapsed building under construction in Bengaluru. Abhishek N. Chinnappa / Reuters
    Police and rescue workers look for survivors in the rubble at the site of a collapsed building under construction in Bengaluru. Abhishek N. Chinnappa / Reuters
  • An army soldier guards outside the base camp which was attacked by suspected militants at Baramulla, northwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Mukhtar Khan / AP Photo
    An army soldier guards outside the base camp which was attacked by suspected militants at Baramulla, northwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Mukhtar Khan / AP Photo
  • Workers pull an idol of the Hindu goddess Durga from a workshop to load it onto a truck towards a pandal, or a temporary platform, ahead of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata. Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters
    Workers pull an idol of the Hindu goddess Durga from a workshop to load it onto a truck towards a pandal, or a temporary platform, ahead of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata. Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters
  • A worker grinds a metal window grill at a steel and iron manufacturing unit in Ahmedabad. Amit Dave / Reuters
    A worker grinds a metal window grill at a steel and iron manufacturing unit in Ahmedabad. Amit Dave / Reuters

Inside India: October 6, 2016


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