Newly-appointed Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde being greeted by Minister of State for Home Affairs, M.Ramachandran and Jitendra Singh at North Block in New Delhi on Wednesday, August 01, 2012. Photo: R.V.Moorthy
A medicine counter set up at Jantar Mantar, the venue of Anna Hazare's hunger strike against corruption in New Delhi. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
Participants at the mass threading (Yajur Upakarma) at Trinayaneswara temple at Mysore Palace premises. Photo: M.A. Sriram
Filipino boys wade along garbage-laden floodwaters at Navotas city, north of Manila, Philippines. Fierce winds and heavy rains from the slow-moving Typhoon Saola battered the country, displacing 154,000 people. Photo: AP
CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat, CPI national secretary A. B. Bardhan, general secretary, Debbrata Biswas and leaders of Left parties during a dharna demanding comprehensive food security Bill in New Delhi. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
Saplings on display in Cherai, near Kochi as part of a campaign to grow vegetables in homesteads launched by the department of agriculture. Photo:H.Vibhu.
Veerapa Moily meets department officials after assuming charge as Union Power Minister in New Delhi. Photo: PTI
P Chidambaram during a meeting with MoS Finance Namo Narain Meena, Finance Secretary RS Gujral and other ministry officials after assuming charge as Finance MInister in New Delhi. Photo: PTI
Commuters exit an underground metro station where services were fully restored after Tuesday's power outage in New Delhi. Photo: AP
Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister M.S.M Anandan inspecting works at Sri Devaraja Swamy temple in Kancheepuram. B Jothi Ramalingam