Find today's news in pics from India and around the world for January 09, 2026
From left, BJP leaders Indranil Khan, Phalguni Patra, Locket Chatterjee, Shashi Agnihotri and Shishir Bajoria leave after a meeting of the party's delegation with West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, in Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee leads a protest march accompanied by party leaders including June Maliah and others against the Enforcement Directorate’s searches linked to political consultancy firm I-PAC, in Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Swapan Mahapatra
A man walks past icicles hanging from a structure amid heavy frost and snow cover during a cold wave in the valley, in Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir. | Photo: PTI
A fire breaks out at the Gangasagar Mela premises, gutting several temporary shelters on Sagardwip island in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district. | Photo: PTI
BJP leaders stage a protest against the alleged insult of Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur, by Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly and AAP leader Atishi, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI
People look on as a backhoe loader is used to remove debris after the allegedly illegal encroachments were demolished by the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) in the early hours of Thursday, in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | Photo: PTI/Shailendra Bhojak
TMC MPs Bapi Halder, left, and Kirti Azad at Parliament Street Police Station after being detained during a protest against ED raids on I-PAC, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI
A woman carries groceries as security personnel keep vigil amid Friday prayers following an anti-encroachment drive near the Faiz-e-Elahi mosque on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday that triggered violence, opposite the Turkman Gate area, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Karma Bhutia
Congress workers take out a symbolic funeral procession demanding CBI probe into the Ankita Bhandari murder case, in Dehradun. | Photo: PTI
Bangladeshi-Swedish author Taslima Nasrin during the Kerala Legislative International Book Festival (KLIBF), in Thiruvananthapuram. | Photo: PTI
People wait in queues during hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, in Malda district, West Bengal. | Photo: PTI
Wreckage of a vehicle at the site after a collision between a speeding car and a truck, near Indore. Daughter of Congress MLA and former Madhya Pradesh home minister Bala Bachchan and two others were killed in the incident, according to officials. | Photo: PTI