Find today's news in pics from India and around the world for January 16, 2026
A person poses during an exhibition organised as part of the 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), at Parliament House complex, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Shahbaz Khan
Participants attempt to subdue a bull during Jallikattu, the traditional bull-taming sport held on Mattu Pongal amid Tamil Nadu's Pongal harvest festival celebrations, in Madurai. | Photo: PTI
BJP workers celebrate amid confetti and ‘gulal’ as they celebrate a party’s candidate’s victory in the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) elections, at Kopar Khairane, in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI
Hot air balloons carry passengers during the Hot Air Balloon Festival, being organised by Telangana Tourism, in Hyderabad. | Photo: PTI
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel during rehearsals amid dense fog on a cold winter morning, ahead of the Republic Day Parade, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore
Vehicles at a traffic signal amid traffic congestion on Delhi-Meerut Expressway exit at Sara Kale Khan, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits an exhibition during a programme marking a decade of the Startup India initiative, in New Delhi. | Photo: @NarendraModi/YT via PTI
Polling officials during counting of votes for the Nagpur Municipal Corporation election, at a centre in Nagpur, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI
West Bengal Ministers Aroop Biswas, left, Sujit Bose, centre, and Pulak Roy, right, participate in beach-cleaning activities at Sagar Island during the 'Gangasagar Mela', in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. | Photo:PTI
People fly a kite train during the third ‘International Kite Festival’, at Baansera Park, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore
Police official and artistes during the third ‘International Kite Festival’, at Baansera Park, in New Delhi. | Photo PTIKamal Kishore
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presents her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump during a meeting at the Oval Office, in Washington, DC. Machado, who has on previous occasions said that she would give her Nobel prize to Trump, met the American President in the White House Thursday, a closely-watched meeting that came days after the US carried out a military strike in Venezuela and captured its leader Nicolás Maduro. | Photo: @WhiteHouse/X via PTI
Security personnel keep vigil outside a centre during counting of votes for the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation election, at Vashi, in Navi Mumbai. | Photo: PTI
Rajasthan-themed decoratives and standees at the state’s stall during an exhibition organised as part of the 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), at the Parliament House complex, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Shahbaz Khan
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel during rehearsals amid dense fog on a cold winter morning, ahead of the Republic Day Parade, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore
Union External Afairs Minister S Jaishankar, right, shakes hands with Japan's Foreign Affairs Minister Toshimitsu Motegi during his visit to India, in New Delhi. | Photo: @DrSJaishankar/X via PTI
Family members of Sonu Kashyap interact with the media during a Mahapanchayat organised at the Meerut Commissionerate over the alleged murder of Sonu, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI
Agitators hold portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and late general Qassem Soleimani during a protest by Shia Muslims in support of the Islamic Republic, amid the deadly protests challenging Iran's theocracy and threats by the US to intervene militarily in the country, in Srinagar. | Photo: PTI/S Irfan
New Zealand's Devon Conway during a practice session ahead of the third ODI cricket match of the series between India and New Zealand, at Holkar Cricket Stadium, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. | Photo: PTI/Atul Yadav
Kinnar Akhada Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, centre, gives an addressal after the 'Patta Abhishek' ritual of a newly appointed Mahamandaleshwar at the 'Magh Mela 2026', in Prayagraj. | Photo: PTI
Police personnel arrive at Maulana Azad Stadium as part of security arrangements ahead of the Republic Day celebrations in Jammu. | Photo: PTI