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Participants attempt to subdue a bull during Jallikattu, the traditional bull-taming sport held on Mattu Pongal amid Tamil Nadu's Pongal harvest festival celebrations, in Madurai. | Photo: PTI
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BJP workers celebrate amid confetti and ‘gulal’ as they celebrate a party’s candidate’s victory in the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) elections, at Kopar Khairane, in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI
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Hot air balloons carry passengers during the Hot Air Balloon Festival, being organised by Telangana Tourism, in Hyderabad. | Photo: PTI
4/20
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel during rehearsals amid dense fog on a cold winter morning, ahead of the Republic Day Parade, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore
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Vehicles at a traffic signal amid traffic congestion on Delhi-Meerut Expressway exit at Sara Kale Khan, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore
6/20
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits an exhibition during a programme marking a decade of the Startup India initiative, in New Delhi. | Photo: @NarendraModi/YT via PTI
7/20
Polling officials during counting of votes for the Nagpur Municipal Corporation election, at a centre in Nagpur, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI
8/20
West Bengal Ministers Aroop Biswas, left, Sujit Bose, centre, and Pulak Roy, right, participate in beach-cleaning activities at Sagar Island during the 'Gangasagar Mela', in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. | Photo:PTI
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People fly a kite train during the third ‘International Kite Festival’, at Baansera Park, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore
10/20
Police official and artistes during the third ‘International Kite Festival’, at Baansera Park, in New Delhi. | Photo PTIKamal Kishore
11/20
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presents her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump during a meeting at the Oval Office, in Washington, DC. Machado, who has on previous occasions said that she would give her Nobel prize to Trump, met the American President in the White House Thursday, a closely-watched meeting that came days after the US carried out a military strike in Venezuela and captured its leader Nicolás Maduro. | Photo: @WhiteHouse/X via PTI
12/20
Security personnel keep vigil outside a centre during counting of votes for the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation election, at Vashi, in Navi Mumbai. | Photo: PTI
13/20
Rajasthan-themed decoratives and standees at the state’s stall during an exhibition organised as part of the 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), at the Parliament House complex, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Shahbaz Khan
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Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel during rehearsals amid dense fog on a cold winter morning, ahead of the Republic Day Parade, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Kamal Kishore
15/20
Union External Afairs Minister S Jaishankar, right, shakes hands with Japan's Foreign Affairs Minister Toshimitsu Motegi during his visit to India, in New Delhi. | Photo: @DrSJaishankar/X via PTI
16/20
Family members of Sonu Kashyap interact with the media during a Mahapanchayat organised at the Meerut Commissionerate over the alleged murder of Sonu, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI
17/20
Agitators hold portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and late general Qassem Soleimani during a protest by Shia Muslims in support of the Islamic Republic, amid the deadly protests challenging Iran's theocracy and threats by the US to intervene militarily in the country, in Srinagar. | Photo: PTI/S Irfan
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New Zealand's Devon Conway during a practice session ahead of the third ODI cricket match of the series between India and New Zealand, at Holkar Cricket Stadium, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. | Photo: PTI/Atul Yadav
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Kinnar Akhada Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, centre, gives an addressal after the 'Patta Abhishek' ritual of a newly appointed Mahamandaleshwar at the 'Magh Mela 2026', in Prayagraj. | Photo: PTI
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Police personnel arrive at Maulana Azad Stadium as part of security arrangements ahead of the Republic Day celebrations in Jammu. | Photo: PTI
