Find today's news in pics from India and around the world for August 24, 2026
Students play at Kartavya Path amid monsoon showers, in New Delhi. The weather office issued a red alert for heavy rain and a yellow alert for moderate rain across several districts, with thunderstorms, lightning and winds of 30-40 kmph also expected in parts of the city. | Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma
People take a holy dip in the Ganga river on the last Monday of the holy month of 'shravan' at Har Ki Pauri, in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. | Photo: PTI
DMK MLAs address the media after staging a walkout during an ongoing Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly session, in Chennai. | Photo: PTI/R Senthilkumar
People offer prayers to Lord Shiva on the last Monday of the holy month of 'shravan', at a temple in Patna, Bihar. | Photo: PTI
Premises of a water treatment plant following a chlorine gas leak, at Godhani village, in Nagpur, Maharashtra. Several people were hospitalised after the leakage occurred in a 900-kg capacity chlorine gas cylinder at the water treatment plant at around 1 am, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) said. | Photo: PTI
Charred remains of medical equipment are seen after a fire in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of a government hospital killed at least three newborns, in Amravati district, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI
Wreckage of a car is seen after a collision with another car near the PWD office at ITO, in New Delhi. Two MLAs, including Anil Jha, the sitting MLA from Kirari, were among six people who sustained minor injuries after a car travelling from Laxmi Nagar towards ITO hit a divider, crossed the railing, and collided with an Innova car coming from the opposite direction in central Delhi on Sunday night, police said. | Photo: PTI
Students play at Kartavya Path amid monsoon showers, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma
An aerial view of the Somnath Temple on the last Monday of the holy month of 'Shravan', in Gir Somnath district, Gujarat. | Photo: PTI
Police personnel stand guard on a road after a clash between Marathi and non-Marathi auto-rickshaw drivers over a language issue at Kandivali Link Road, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI
People take a holy dip in the swollen Ganga river on the last Monday of the holy month of 'shravan', at Gandhi Ghat, in Patna, Bihar. | Photo: PTI
Family members and relatives mourn after a fire in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of a government hospital killed at least three newborns, in Amravati district, Maharashtra, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. | Photo: PTI
People arrive from a flooded area following a rise in the water level of the Ganga river, in Patna, Bihar. | Photo: PTI
Firemen at work after a fire broke out at a car showroom, in Madhyamgram, North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal. At least 30 vehicles were gutted in the fire that broke out in the early hours of Monday, police said. | Photo: PTI
National Security Guard (NSG) personnel arrive to conduct a reconnaissance exercise with other security agencies near the Kalighat Temple, in Kolkata, West Bengal. | Photo: PTI/Swapan Mahapatra
People take part in a 'Kanwar Yatra' procession on the last Monday of the holy month of 'Shravan', in Ajmer, Rajasthan, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. | Photo: PTI
Women shop for 'rakhis' ahead of the 'Raksha Bandhan' festival, in Sangli, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI