Find today's news in pics from India and around the world for April 17, 2026
Congress candidate from the Ranaghat Dakshin Assembly constituency, Rita Pal Das, campaigns ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Nadia, West Bengal. | Photo: PTI
Polling officials during the counting of votes in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), in Agartala, Tripura. | Photo: PTI
Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan pays tribute to former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar on the latter’s 99th birth anniversary, at Jannayak Sthal, in New Delhi. | Photo: @VPIndia/X via PTI
School students hold placards as they participate in the 'Nari Shakti Vandan Run', in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI
Women participate in the 'Nari Shakti Vandan Run', in Patna, Bihar. | Photo: PTI
A seer performs holy dip in the River Ganga on the occassion of 'Vaishakha Amavasya', in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI
Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi, centre, with BJP members, during a public meeting, in Gujarat. | Photo: Handout via PTI
Parvathaneni Harish, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, delivers a statement during the UN General Assembly Debate, in New York. | Photo: @IndiaUNNewYork/X via PTI
Protestors set a vehicle ablaze following the detention of a few locals over alleged encroachment of reserved forest land, at Runikhata range office, in Chirang district, Assam. The mob ransacked the forest range office and torched government vehicles inside the premises, located close to the Bhutan border, officials said. | Photo: PTI
Teacher aspirants stage a protest outside the Chief Minister’s residence demanding recruitment in the school education department, in Bhopal. | Photo: PTI
A 19-seater seaplane during its third trial landing at Tehri Lake in Koti Colony area after taking off from Dehradun's Jolly Grant Airport, in Tehri Garhwal district. | Photo: PTI
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, centre, waves to the gathering during an election campaign in support of BJP candidate for Siliguri constituency, Shankar Ghosh, right, ahead of West Bengal Assembly Election, in Darjeeling district. | Photo: @BhajanlalBjp/X via PTI
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, right, during an election campaign in support of BJP candidates ahead of the West Bengal Assembly Election, at Raiganj, in Uttar Dinajpur district. | Photo: PTI
A man fills water bottles from the top of a water tanker on a hot summer day, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh | Photo: PTI
Tipra Motha Party founder Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma, right, along with supporters celebrates after winning 24 out of 28 seats in the Tripura Tiprasa Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections, in Tripura, Agartala. | Photo: PTI
A shopkeeper stacks claypots at a shop on a hot summer day, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI
School students hold cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they participate in a programme on Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, also known as the Women's Reservation Act, in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI
BJP leader K Annamalai, left, during a roadshow in support of NDA candidate Vidiyal S Sekar ahead of the Assembly elections, in Ottanatham, Thoothukkudi district of Tamil Nadu. | Photo: @annamalai_k/X via PTI
Union Home Minister Amit Shah speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Special session of Parliament, in New Delhi. | Photo: Sansad TV via PTI
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, right, during a meeting with Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov, in New Delhi. | Photo: @MEAIndia/X via PTI
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, left, in a meeting with former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, centre, at the Parliament House, in New Delhi. | Photo: @ombirlakota/X via PTI
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during a meeting with Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov, in New Delhi. | Photo: @DrSJaishankar/X via PTI