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Silence as Strategy? CPI(M) and the Normalisation Of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

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| Photo: PTI : Cricketer Virat Kohli upon his arrival at Vadodara Airport ahead of India's ODI cricket series with New Zealand, Gujarat.

Day In Pics: January 07, 2026

| Photo: PTI/Shahbaz Khan : Passengers commute by bus on a cold winter morning, in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: January 06, 2026

| Photo: PTI : Students with their parents outside Tollygunge Adarsha Hindi High School amid concerns over the dilapidated condition of government schools, in Kolkata.

Day In Pics: January 05, 2026

| Photo: PTI/Kunal Patil : Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, left, and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray release their alliance manifesto for the upcoming civic polls, at Sena Bhavan, in Mumbai.

Day In Pics: January 04, 2026

| Photo: PTI : A person shows a sample of the drinking water that is being collected following a diarrhoea outbreak caused by contaminated water, at Bhagirathpura area, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Indore Water Contamination Triggers Health Scare, Exposes Gaps In Urban Water Safety

| Photo: PTI/Salman Ali : NCC cadets during Republic Day parade rehearsals at Cariappa Parade Ground, in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: January 03, 2026

| Photo: PTI : Exposed water pipeline at the site of contamination in Bhagirathpura where several people fell ill after consuming contaminated tap water, in Indore.

Day In Pics: January 02, 2026

| Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary : Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officials during a rehearsal ahead of the Republic Day, at Kartavya Path in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: January 01, 2026

| Photo: PTI : Security personnel at the site after a loco train collided with a goods train on Tuesday night inside Pipalkoti tunnel of the Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project tunnel in Gopeshwar area, Chamoli district. Atleast 60 people were injured in the incident.

Day In Pics: December 31, 2025

Year-Ender 2025: Moments Captured In Time, Through The Outlook Lens

Year-Ender 2025: Moments Captured In Time, Through The Outlook Lens

| Photo: PTI : A dense layer of fog shrouds the city area on a cold winter morning, in Ranchi.

Day In Pics: December 30, 2025

Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary : Victim in the Unnao rape case, centre, at Supreme Court in New Delhi. Supreme Court stayed the Delhi High Court's order suspending the life sentence of expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case.

Day In Pics: December 29, 2025

| Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary : Students walk along a road on their way to school amid dense fog on a winter morning, in New Delhi.

In Photos: Zero Visibility Morning As Delhi Chokes Under Severe Smog

| Photo: PTI/Atul Yadav : Members of various organisations raise slogans during a protest seeking justice for the Unnao rape case survivor, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: December 28, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Doctors raise slogans during an indefinite strike against the termination of services of a fellow doctor who entered into a brawl with a patient, at Indira Gandhi Medical College, in Shimla. Medical services, barring emergency services, were severely affected across several hospitals in Himachal Pradesh due to the strike.

Day In Pics: December 27, 2025

| Photo: AICC via PTI : LoP in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to former prime minister Manmohan Singh on his first death anniversary, in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: December 26, 2025

| Photo: PTI/R SenthilKumar : Christian devotees offer prayers during the Christmas morning service at Santhome Cathedral Basilica church, in Chennai.

Day In Pics: December 25, 2025

| Photo: @isroofficial5866/Yt via PTI : Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launches the BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite of AST SpaceMobile, USA, onboard its launch vehicle LVM3-M6 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

Day In Pics: December 24, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Security officials keep vigil during a search and cordon operation, in Salia village of Anantnag district.

Day In Pics: December 23, 2025

| Photo: PTI/Atul Yadav : Indian Navy officials during a rehearsal ahead of Republic Day, at Kartavya Path in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: December 22, 2025

| Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary : School children brave dense fog on a winter morning, at Mayur Vihar area, in New Delhi. Visibility plunged across parts of Delhi on Saturday morning, with buildings and flyovers fading into a grey blur amid dense fog, as the capital’s AQI edged closer to the ‘severe’ category at 384.

Dense Fog Blankets Delhi, Visibility Falls Across City

| Photo: PTI : Passengers arrive at the Ranchi railway station amid train delays and cancellations caused by fog on a winter morning, in Ranchi.

Day In Pics: December 21, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Eight elephants are killed after a herd is struck by the Sairang-New Delhi Rajdhani Express, in Nagaon district, Assam.

Day In Pics: December 20, 2025

| Photo: AP/Mahmud Hossain Opu : A protester reacts to the camera near the premises of the Prothom Alo daily newspaper which was set on fire by angry protesters after news reached the country from Singapore of the death of a prominent activist Sharif Osman Hadi, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Sharif Osman Hadi Death: Bangladesh Erupts In Violent Protests

| Photo: PTI/Shiva Sharma : Devotees sit near the 'Amrit Sarovar' at Golden Temple amid dense fog, in Amritsar.

Day In Pics: December 19, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Congress party workers hold a protest over the proposed renaming of MGNREGA under the VB-G Ram G Bill, in Prayagraj.

Day In Pics: December 18, 2025

Labani Jangi : The last two decades have revealed that images no longer merely document events; they actively produce political meaning.

Images Against Darkness: 100 Years Of The Indian Communist Movement And The Culture Of Rebellion, In Photos

| Photo: PTI : Commuters on a foggy winter morning near the Charminar, in the Old City of Hyderabad, Telangana.

Day In Pics: December 17, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Cranes clear the charred remains of buses after a fog-hit pile-up involving several buses and cars triggered fires on the Yamuna Expressway, in Mathura.

Fog Triggers Deadly Multi-Vehicle Pile-Up on Yamuna Expressway

| Photo: PTI/Salman Ali : Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other opposition MPs participate in a protest march against the VB-G RAM G Bill, introduced by the union government to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005, during the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: December 16, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Kavita Chand, a native of Almora in Uttarakhand, poses with the Tricolour after successfully summiting Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica.

Day In Pics: December 15, 2025

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IMAGO / Matrix Images : Pro-longed dry spell in Himachal Pradesh, India A farmer attends to her potato farm at a village in Nagrota Bagwan near Dharamsala, India on January 24, 2024. The extended period of dry weather in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh along with a mild winter this year, poses a threat to Rabi farmers who may incur losses due to adverse effects on crop growth. In addition to the impact on crops, the insufficient rainfall may lead to water shortages in the upcoming summer, with the state experiencing an 83 percent deficit in December. Dharamsala, India

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| Photo: PTI/Salman Ali : Vehicles at a petrol pump amid dense fog on a cold winter morning, in New Delhi.

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X : Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren reviewing preparations for the Davos (WEF) and United Kingdom (London) visits today. Under his leadership, an 11-member delegation from Jharkhand will, for the first time, present the state's industrial potential, sustainable development vision, tourism, and investment opportunities on the global platform of the World Economic Forum.

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IMAGO / Hindustan Times : Hundreds of people have been displaced after demolitions in Malvani. Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha alleged 'illegal encroachment' of 'infiltrators', Congress criticised.

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| Photo: PTI : People search for their names in the draft voter list after the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh, in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh.

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