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Informal caste councils in northern India continue to impose patriarchal control, issuing threats, bans and lethal diktats that undermine women’s rights and personal freedoms.

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| 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

| Photo: Sandipan Chatterjee : The Old-world Charm: A CPI(M) comrade working at the party’s office in Kamarpurkar in Hoogly district of West Bengal

The Ruins Of An Idea: Capturing Shades Of The Left Across The Country

| Photo: PTI/Shahbaz Khan : A view of the Parliament House complex on a foggy winter morning, in New Delhi.

Delhi Air Pollution: Delhi’s Dystopian Morning As AQI Plunges To ‘Severe Plus’

| Photo: AP/Shahbaz Khan : People have tea at a roadside stall during a cold and smoggy winter morning, in New Delhi. Delhi battled toxic fumes on Sunday as the air quality slipped into the 'severe' category with a reading of 459, according to the Central Pollution Control Board.

Day In Pics: December 14, 2025

| Photo: PTI/Shahbaz Khan : Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to the martyrs of the 2001 Parliament attack during a ceremony to mark its 24th anniversary, at Samvidhan Sadan, in New Delhi. Vice President CP Radhakrishnan and LoP in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi are also seen.

Day In Pics: December 13, 2025

| Photo: @INCIndia/X via PTI : 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.

Day In Pics: December 12, 2025

| Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary : In this file photo, activist Umar Khalid speaks during a demonstration against Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi. Delhi court has granted interim bail to 2020 riots accused Umar Khalid to attend his sister's wedding.

Day In Pics: December 11, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Police personnel patrol the Banbhoolpura area ahead of the Supreme Court order in the railway land encroachment case, in Haldwani, Uttarakhand.

Day In Pics: December 10, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Security personnel conduct searches in the Hutmurah forest area as part of the ongoing investigation linked to the Delhi blast case, in Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir.

Day In Pics: December 09, 2025

| Photo: PTI/Salman Ali : TMC MPs Mahua Moitra, Dola Sen and others stage a protest over the issue of pending Central dues for West Bengal, during the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: December 08, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub where a fire broke out due to a cylinder blast, in North Goa. At least 25 persons were killed and six others suffered injuries in the incident, according to officials.

Twenty-Five People Killed In Goa Nightclub Fire

| Photo: PTI : Passengers enquire at an IndiGo airlines counter amid flight disruptions, at Birsa Munda Airport, in Ranchi.

Day In Pics: December 07, 2025

| Photo: Handout via PTI : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath pays tribute to Lord Buddha during the 69th death anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar, also called ‘Mahaparinirvan Diwas’, at Bhimrao Ambedkar Mahasabha Office Complex, Hazratganj, in Lucknow.

Day In Pics: December 06, 2025

| Photo: PTI : Stranded passengers at Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport following IndiGo flight cancellations, in Patna.

Nationwide Travel Chaos as IndiGo Cancels Over 400 Flights

| Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool via AP : Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a press statement after their talks at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: December 05, 2025

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PTI; Representative image : During the operation, police recovered 21 country-made pistols, 20 live cartridges and 27 knives under the Arms Act.

Delhi Police Apprehend 966 In Southeast Delhi Ahead Of New Year Under Operation Aaghat 3.0

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IMAGO / Xinhua; Representative image : 13 Terrorists Killed In Balochistan Intelligence-Based Operation

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PTI : The patient, on a wheelchair, who was allegedly assaulted by a doctor, while lying on a hospital bed, at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), in Shimla, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. A video of the incident went viral triggering protests.

Resident Doctors’ Strike Disrupts Hospital Services Across Himachal Pradesh

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| Photo- File; Representative image : Singerha allegedly informed her about the vacancies and asked her to visit the university with her documents.

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Photo- File : Unnao Rape Case convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar

CBI Moves Supreme Court Against Bail To Kuldeep Sengar In Unnao Rape Case

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RAJIB DHAR : India Flags Grave Concern Over Attacks On Minorities In Bangladesh

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imago : Nurses in a hospital in Raxaul, Bihar
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Prashant Jagtap Joins Congress After Quitting Sharad Pawar-Led NCP Faction

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PTI : A Booth Level Officer (BLO) interacts with a voter as he checks and collects filled enumeration forms for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, in Thiruvananthapuram,

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| Photo: PTI/Salman Ali : Agitators, including women activists, hold placards as they stage a protest against the suspension of the jail term of Kuldeep Sengar, a former BJP MLA who was convicted in the Unnao rape case, outside the Delhi High Court, in New Delhi.

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