India News In Pictures

People busy making lamps ahead of Diwali in Mumbai, on Oct.8, 2014. (Photo: Sandeep Mahankal/IANS)

Sikh Nihangs demonstrate their skills during Parkash Utsav of Sri Guru Ram Dass at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, on Oct.8, 2014. (Photo: IANS)

An idol of goddess Lakshmi being immersed on the banks of Hooghly river in Kolkata on Oct.8, 2014. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS)

An injured BSF jawan - who got injured in cross border firing at Indo -Pak border in RS Pora sector of Jammu - being treated at a Jammu hospital on Oct.8, 2014.Twenty people were injured in overnight Pakistani firing at the border in Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: IANS)

The idols of Durga that were immersed in the Yamuna river after Dussehra, fished out of the river and kept on the banks so as to avoid water pollution, in Agra, on Oct.9, 2014. (Photo: Pawan Sharma/IANS)

People participate in a cultural procession organised on Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti at Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore, on Oct.8, 2014. (Photo: IANS)

A view of spectacularly illuminated Golden Temple on Parkash Utsav of Sri Guru Ram Dass in Amritsar, on Oct.8, 2014. (Photo: IANS)

Polling personnel inspect Electronic Voting Machines ahead of Maharashtra Assembly polls in Mumbai, on Oct.8, 2014. (Photo: Sandeep Mahankal/IANS)

A man applies chandan on his forehead after a holy dip in the waters of Ganga river on the first day of Kartik month (of lunar Hindu calendar), in Varanasi, on Oct.9, 2014. (Photo: IANS)

A view of rare Selenelion lunar eclipse as seen from Guwahati on Oct. 2014. During a Selenelion eclipse, the sun and moon are exactly 180 degrees apart in the sky. (Photo: IANS)

People view the rare Selenelion lunar eclipse in Guwahati on Oct. 2014. During a Selenelion eclipse, the sun and moon are exactly 180 degrees apart in the sky. (Photo: IANS)