1/21
Union Home Minister Amit Shah with BJP MP Sandeep Pathak during a meeting, in New Delhi. | Photo: @SandeepPathak04/X via PTI
2/21
NDRF personnel load relief supplies and essential medicines onto a second aircraft as India dispatches 37.5 tonnes of HADR assistance, essential medicines and food packets to support Nepal’s response to the devastating floods. | Photo: @DrSJaishankar/X via PTI
3/21
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses young athletes, students, and volunteers across the country via video conferencing during the 'Khelo India Dialogue - Khel Ki Baat, Pradhan Mantri Modi Ke Saath' program, in New Delhi. | Photo: @NarendraModi/YT via PTI
4/21
Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary conducts an aerial survey of the flood situation in border areas of Bagaha, Valmiki Nagar, Bettiah and Motihari following flash floods in neighbouring Nepal. | Photo: @samrat4bjp/X via PTI
5/21
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, centre, in a group photograph with Mizuno Corporation Representative Director and President Akito Mizuno, fifth left, and others during a meeting, in Japan. | Photo: @PiyushGoyal/X via PTI
6/21
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders and workers during a protest against the government over the increase in power tariffs, in Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir. The protesters demanded an immediate rollback of the revised rates, expressing concern over the financial burden it places on ordinary consumers. | Photo: PTI
7/21
People perform 'Yajurveda Upakarma' rituals during a ceremony, in Thiruvananthapuram, Keralam. | Photo: PTI
8/21
Chinese sailors are hoisted aboard a rescue vessel following their rescue from the sea off the Paradip coast, Odisha. They were among 24 crew members rescued after the Panama-flagged ship, MV Ocean Winner, sank approximately 230 nautical miles off the Paradip coast. | Photo: Handout via PTI
9/21
School students tie 'rakhi', a sacred thread, to BSF personnel on the eve of 'Raksha Bandhan' festival at India-Pakistan international border in the RS Pura sector of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. | Photo: PTI
10/21
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta being applied ‘tilak’ by a child during the ‘Raksha Bandhan’ celebration, in New Delhi. | Photo: @gupta_rekha/X via PTI
11/21
Rescue and police personnel stand near the mangled wreckage of a twin-engine, four-seater training aircraft that crashed in an agricultural field near Natthupurwa village along the Ganga Barrage area, in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The aircraft reportedly suffered an explosion during a training sortie, resulting in casualties among the onboard pilots. | Photo: PTI
12/21
Relatives of individuals missing after a devastating flash flood wait near an army rescue camp as search and rescue operations continue, in Trishuli, Nepal. A sudden flood swept through the Bhote Koshi River basin in northern Rasuwa on August 26, causing widespread damage to settlements, roads, and energy infrastructure, leaving hundreds reported missing as the death toll continues to rise. | Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma
13/21
AICC General Secretary and MP Randeep Singh Surjewala, right, and party leader Abhay Dubey address a press conference, at party office, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI
14/21
Students stand around a massive 'Maha Rakhi' measuring 65 feet by 75 feet, made by them using bamboo paper and leaves ahead of Raksha Bandhan celebrations at a school, in Nagpur, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI
15/21
School children hold ritual 'thalis' to tie 'Rakhis' to police personnel during celebrations ahead of the Raksha Bandhan festival at a police station, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. | Photo: PTI
16/21
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu gets a 'Rakhi' tied on his wrist by Brahmakumari sisters ahead of the Raksha Bandhan festival, in Shimla. | Photo: @CMOFFICEHP/X via PTI
17/21
This image shows interiors of RaGa, Chef Gaggan Anand's first-ever restaurant in India, opened in partnership with restaurateur Zorawar Kalra, at Janpath, in New Delhi. | Photo: RaGa via PTI
18/21
Members of the Coordination Committee of Paramedical and Health Workers and other government employees raise slogans outside Guru Nanak Hospital OPD during a statewide strike by government employees in Punjab to press for their demands, including release of pending dearness allowance, in Amritsar. The strike affected the functioning of various government departments and OPD services at hospitals. | Photo: PTI/Shiva Sharma
19/21
Government employees stage a statewide strike against the AAP government over their demands, including the release of pending dearness allowance, affecting functioning in various government departments and OPD services in hospitals, in Amritsar. | Photo: PTI/Shiva Sharma
20/21
Women residents from the Nanded North Assembly Constituency, tie ‘rakhis’ to Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde ahead of the ‘Raksha Bandhan’ festival, at the latter’s official residence, Nandanvan. | Photo: @mieknathshinde/X via PTI
21/21
Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman, right, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran, center, and Chairman of CII-National Future Tech Manufacturing Mission Pranav Kapuria during a Business Roundtable organized by CII and the Canada-India Business Council (CIB-C), in Toronto, Canada. | Photo: Handout via PTI
