A young girl cools down at a fountain in the last ray of the setting sun near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia. Photo: AP
A road is packed in heavy traffics following power outrage and rains in the central New Delhi. Photo: AP
A worker stocking cooking gas cylinders onto a tri-cycle for domestic distribution at Royapettah in Chennai. Both cooking gas and kerosene are considered price se sensitive as they have a major impact on poor households all over the country. Photo:S. R. Raghunathan
These north Indian contract labourers presumably moved from their native places looking for better jobs that could elevate their financial status. But they were made to remain with a job which required them to move up in air only to assemble (105 meter) gigantic electric power supply feeders. Picture taken at Sunguvarchatram in Kancheepuram district. Photo: B. Jothi Ramalingam.
A newly wed couple poses for wedding photo shooting in Shanghai, China. Photo: AP
A survey of the socio-economic condition of the Vrindavan widows in Uttar Pradesh, told the Supreme Court that they are “highly vulnerable” groups, living in “pathetic” conditions. The welfare measures meant for the widows are not reaching them and it is being taken away by others including NGOs. Photo: V. V. Krishnan
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency inspecting the anti-tsunami wall at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Japan. The 20-member IAEA mission, first at the Onagawa nuclear power plant, about 120 kilometers north of Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, since the crisis, aims to find out the extent of damage at the plant from the magnitude 9.0 quake. Photo: AP
A family travelling in a two-wheeler covering up their faces in different ways to protect themselves from the heat and dust at Anna Nagar West, in Chennai. Photo: K. Pichumani
A two-wheeler rider carrying Casuarina poles in his vehicle not only risking his life but also posing a threat to other vehicle users in Chennai. Photo: K. Pichumani
The submerged Sangamnagar-Dhaka bridge over Koyna River which has delinked 36 villages after heavy rains at Koynanagar in Satara, Maharashtra. Photo: PTI