Find today's news in pics from India and around the world for December 12, 2025
In this image, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi chairs a review meeting of the party's Lok Sabha MPs, at Parliament House Annexe, in New Delhi. Congress MPs KC Venugopal, Gaurav Gogoi and K Suresh are also seen. | Photo: @INCIndia/X via PTI
Students pay tribute to the five victims who died during the anti-CAA protests in 2019, in Guwahati. | Photo: PTI
In this Nov. 7, 2022 file photo, former Lok Sabha speaker Shivraj Patil during a round table discussion and clarion call for National Legislators' Conference (NLC) - 2023, in New Delhi. Patil passed away on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025 at the age of 90. | Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary
Special Investigation Team (SIT) officer Rosie Kalita (right) and other officials arrive at a court in connection with the Zubeen Garg death case, in Guwahati. The SIT on Friday submitted the chargesheet in the case. | Photo: PTI
NCP (SP) leaders and workers gather to celebrate party chief Sharad Pawar's 85th birthday at the Y B Chavan Centre, in Mumbai. | Photo: PTI
A booth level officer (BLO) interacts with a voter during verification of voter identification cards as part of 'Special Revision' (SR) of electoral rolls of Assam, in Guwahati. | Photo: PTI
Artist Swapan Kumar Das draws a portrait of Argentine footballer and 2022 FIFA World Cup winning captain Lionel Messi ahead of his visit, in Kolkata, West Bengal. Messi's long-awaited return to India, after a magical maiden visit back in 2011, will be high on glitz but low on actual football, promising a spectacle that may not recapture the raw sporting frenzy that once shook the Salt Lake Stadium. | Photo: PTI/Swapan Mahapatra
Mounted police personnel keep vigil as an army helicopter conducts a rehearsal ahead of 'Vijay Diwas' celebrations, including the Eastern Command's 'military tattoo', at Maidan, in Kolkata. Vijay Diwas, observed on Dec. 16, marks India's victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war that led to the creation of Bangladesh. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
A black swan in a pond at the Chandigarh Bird Park, in Chandigarh. | Photo: PTI/Shiva Sharma
Volunteers wave Indian and Argentinian national flags as part of a rehearsal on the eve of Lionel Messi's 'GOAT Tour India 2025' at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan stadium, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. Messi is scheduled to start his GOAT Tour India 2025 from Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Swapan Mahapatra
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Andaman and Nicobar Island Lt. Governor Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi (Retd.), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat and others during the unveiling of a statue of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at a park at Beodnabad, in Sri Vijaya Puram, in South Andaman district. | Photo: @AmitShah/X via PTI
Preps for Messi's visit to Kolkata A partially covered 70-feet statue of Argentine footballer and 2022 FIFA World Cup winning captain Lionel Messi, seen amid preparations for his scheduled visit to Kolkata.
MPs belonging to National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents during a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. | Photo: Narendra Modi FB via PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets BJP leader Vijender Gupta, in New Delhi. | Photo: @Gupta_vijender/X via PTI
Chess grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa interacts with school students during the Dharavi Schools Chess Championship 2025, organised for children from over 30 Dharavi schools at the District Sports Club, in Mumbai. | Photo: PTI/Kunal Patil