Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia attend the National Development Council meet in New Delhi. Photo: Rajeev Bhatt
Chief Ministers Narendra Modi (Gujarat), Sadananda Gowda (Karnataka) and Oommen Chandy (Kerala) during the 56th National Development Council meeting in New Delhi. Photo: PTI
DMK president M. Karunanidhi presents a bouquet to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at her residence in New Delhi as his wife Rajathi Ammal and former Union Minister T.R. Baalu look on. Photo: Special Arrangement
Jharkhand Police personnel take part in a jungle warfare drill at Tatisilve in Ranchi. Photo: PTI
Shikaras participate in a race at the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Photo: PTI
Tunisian women read election posters in Tunis. Tunisia is throbbing with excitement as political parties hold final rallies ahead of the country's first elections post the “Jasmine Revolution”, which kick-started the Arab Spring now sweeping the region. Photo: AP
Anti-government protesters gesture in front of makeshift barricades in the western village of Dumistan, Bahrain. Photo: AP
A Thai Buddhist monk carries items as he passes by the flooded Weeru Wanaram temple at Don Muang District, in Bangkok. Thailand’s catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has said. Photo: AP
A six-meter-high depiction of Belgian cartoon hero Tintin and his dog Snowy is seen atop the Lombard Building in Brussels ahead of the world premiere of Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn”. Photo: AP