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Naidu Welcomes ₹10,000 Crore Railway Lifeline for Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday thanked the Centre for approving a nearly Rs 10,000 crore railway project in the state, involving the construction of third and fourth lines between Nidadavolu and Duvvada.

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| Photo: PTI : A woman looks at a sand art carved by Sand artist Rupesh Singh dedicated on 'Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam', commonly known as Women's Reservation Act, at Namo Ghat, in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

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| Photos: Sandipan Chatterjee/OUTLOOK : In Kenda Mari village of Bengal's Nandigram constituency, a huge percentage of Muslim women voters have been deleted, most of whom possess all necessary documents.

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| Photo: PTI : Women cover themselves amid heat on a hot summer day, in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

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| Photo: Suresh K. Pandey/Outlook : Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, Tamil Nadu’s Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services, is contesting from the Madurai Central constituency for the third consecutive time.

Welfarism To Delimitation: Campaign Narrative Shifts In Tamil Nadu’s Final Stretch

| Photo: PTI/Salman Ali : Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leaders Rahul Gandhi and KC Venugopal, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut, NCP(SP) leader Supriya Sule, TMC leader Sagarika Ghose, DMK leader TR Baalu and other leaders during INDIA bloc meeting at Kharge's residence, in New Delhi.

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| Photo: Sandipan Chatterjee : In the Matua dominant constituency of Gaighata, many have found their names struck off electoral rolls after the SIR

Bengal Elections 2026: SIR-Panic And Citizenship-Anxiety Unsettle Matua Community In Thakurnagar

| Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma : Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan in a group photograph with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, MoS Ramdas Athawale, Congress President and Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge, and others during the tribute paying ceremony to Dr BR Ambedkar on his birth anniversary, observed as ‘Ambedkar Jayanti’, at Prerna Sthal, Samvidhan Sadan, in New Delhi.

Day In Pics: April 14, 2026

| Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav : Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata.

Disenfranchised Before The Polls? Protest In Kolkata Spotlights Deleted Voters

| Photo: Dinesh Parab/Outlook : Sujat Ambedkar, great-grandson of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, pays tribute at Chaitya Bhoomi on the occasion of his 135th birth anniversary in Mumbai.

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| Photo: Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook : Replica of Babri Masjid Rejinagar, near Beldanga in Murshidabad district, West Bengal.

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| Photo: PTI/Shiva Sharma : People visit the Jallianwala Bagh on the 107th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, in Amritsar, Punjab. Hundreds of people protesting peacefully against the Rowlatt Act were gunned down by British forces without any provocation on this day in 1919.

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| Photo: PTI : Police personnel inspect the wreckage of a vehicle during a protest by factory workers demanding a hike in wages, in Noida, Gautam Buddh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh. The protest carried incidents of arson, vandalism and stone-pelting reported from Phase-2 and Sector 60 areas, police said.

Noida Workers' Wage Protest Turns Violent As Police Clash, Road Blocked

| Photo: Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook : Deleted Voters are showing their documents at Daulatpur Gram Panchayet Milangarh Malda

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| Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma : Congress MP and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi flags off the ‘Run for Ambedkar, Run for Constitution’ marathon organised by the AICC, at Mandi House, in New Delhi.

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| Photo: NASA via PTI : The Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II crew members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, unseen, splashes down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, USA.

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| Photo: @CPR_VP/X via PTI : Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan administers oath to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a member of the House during a ceremony at the former's chamber at the Parliament House complex, in New Delhi. Union Ministers JP Nadda and Nirmala Sitharaman are also seen.

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| Photo: AP/Anupam Nath : A woman shows the indelible ink mark on her index finger after casting her vote at a polling center during the state election in Guwahati.

Dance Of Democracy: Streets Abuzz As People Cast Their Votes In Kerala, Assam And Puducherry

| Photo: PTI/R Senthilkumar : A voter gets her finger marked with indelible ink while casting vote during the Puducherry Assembly elections, at a polling station in Puducherry.

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| Photo: Yasir Iqbal : People raise slogans as they gather to celebrate in response to the ceasefire agreement between Iran, the United States and Israel, after US President Donald Trump pulled back from his threats to destroy Iranian civilization, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

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| Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook : Daily-wage labourers in Noida's Khora Colony labour market, waiting to be hired for a day's work.

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| Photo: AP/Vahid Salemi : Pro-government demonstrators chant slogans as they hold Iranian flags and a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a gathering after announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war with the United States and Israel, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami, or Islamic Revolution, Square, in Tehran, Iran.

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| Photo: PTI : Nine-judge constitution bench to hear review pleas on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in a case related to the entry of women in the Sabarimala Temple. People are seen waiting to offer prayers at the temple, in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, in this file photo dated Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026.

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| Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook : Large crowds occupy the New Delhi Railway Station platform, as passengers sit, rest, and wait amid a heavy rush of many going back to their native states due to the LPG crisis.

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| Photo: Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook : Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during her election meeting at Bhabanipur constituency

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| Photo: PTI/Atul Yadav : AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal arrives at the Delhi High Court to appear in connection with the liquor scam case, in New Delhi.

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| Photo: Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook : Political wall graffiti at Salt Lake

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| Photo: PTI : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin addresses a public meeting ahead of the Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, in Virudhunagar.

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| Photo: PTI : A worker gathers damaged wheat crop following rain and hailstorm that hit several villages, in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.

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| Photo: PTI : An LPG cylinder carrier truck and other vehicles queue up at a CNG station amid disruptions in supplies due to the ongoing West Asia war, in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka.

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