Find today's news in pics from India and around the world for June 05, 2026
Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai resigned from the party's primary membership on Friday, June 5, 2026, and BJP chief Nitin Nabin accepted the resignation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Annamalai are seen during a BJP event, near Palladam in Tirupur, in this file photo dated Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. | Photo: PTI/R Senthilkumar
In this image posted on June 5, 2026, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi does scuba diving during a visit to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. | Photo: @INCIndia/X via PTI
In this image posted on June 5, 2026, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi rides a scooty during a visit to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. | Photo; @INCIndia/X via PTI
TMC leader Firhad Hakim speaks with the media after resigning as the mayor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), in Kolkata, West Bengal. | Photo: PTI/Swapan Mahapatra
Rupee logo at Reserve Bank of India (RBI) headquarters, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The rupee appreciated 50 paise to 95.24 against the US dollar on Friday after the RBI liberalised norms for FPI investment in government securities | Photo: PTI/Shashank Parade
Police personnel at the site after a crane collapsed during Jewar flyover construction, in Faridabad, Haryana. | Photo: PTI
Students stage a protest against arrest of Gyan Bindu Coaching Director Roshan Anand and demanded his release in connection with the attack on Khan Sir's coaching center, in Patna, Bihar. | Photo: PTI
Premises of the St. Luke’s Health–Sugar Land Hospital with a patient tower named in honour of Indian-American couple Brij and Sunita Agrawal, who have donated USD 5.5 million to expand medical services and patient care in the Greater Houston area, including support for a new primary care clinic serving the fast-growing Sugar Land community, in Houston, Texas. | Photo: PTI
Bihar Governor Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.), right, administers the oath of office to Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai as the new Chief Justice of the Patna High Court at Lok Bhavan, in Patna. | Photo: PTI
Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai resigned from the party's primary membership on Friday, June 5, 2026, and BJP chief Nitin Nabin accepted the resignation. Annamalai is seen during a BJP event, in New Delhi, in this file photo dated Sunday, May 5, 2024. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
Shreyas Iyer will formally replace Suryakumar Yadav as India's new T20 captain when the national selection panel meets in Mumbai on Saturday, June 6, 2026, to finalise squads for the white-ball tour of the UK and the subsequent Asian Games in Japan. Iyer is seen during a practice session ahead of an ICC Champions Trophy cricket match against Pakistan, in Dubai, UAE, in this file photo dated Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. | Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore
In this image received on June 5, 2026, LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi along with Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, Congress President and Rajya Sabha candidate from Karnataka, Mallikarjun Kharge, party leaders KC Venugopal and Siddaramaiah during Kharge’s filing of the nomination papers for Rajya Sabha, at Vidhana Soudha, in Bengaluru. | Photo: KPCC via PTI
Police personnel detain an AAP worker protesting over power cuts and electricity bills, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI/Nand Kumar
In this screengrab from a video posted on June 5, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the inauguration and laying of foundation stones of various development projects, in Surat district, Gujarat. | Photo: @NarendraModi/YT via PTI
Women stand in queue at a block office, in Malda, West Bengal. The Annapurna Bhandar Scheme is a social security program launched by the Government of West Bengal. It provides eligible women with a flat monthly financial assistance of ₹3,000 via Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and offers free travel on state-run government buses. | Photo: PTI
Lost mobile phones were distributed to their owners at GRP Cantt Railway Police station, in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI
People dressed as Covid-19 medical staff stage a protest near the residence of Punjab health and family minister Dr Balbir Singh demanding to fulfill government promises of regular employment and calling for recognition of their services rendered during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Photos: PTI
Union Minister Anurag Thakur, right, along with actor Jackie Shroff presents saplings to each other on the occasion of World Environment Day, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI
People stand in queue to fill water, as the water supply gets disrupted, after the repair of the Kolar water supply could not be completed on Thursday, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. | Photo: PTI