Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma with Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Ranee Narah at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected ministers of the state at Meghalaya Raj Bhawan in Shillong on Tuesday. PTI Photo(PTI3_12_2013_000131A)
Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister N Modi gets a hug from K Shrikanth, former chairman of the selection committe of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) during a meeting in Gandhinagar on Tuesday. PTI Photo (PTI3_12_2013_000171B)
Gadaharishpur: Debris of sub-sonic cruise missile Nirbhaya that underwent path deviation after maiden test-firing from Chandipur launch on Tuesday. The missile fell off in a remote seaside Gadaharishpur village in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. PTI Photo (PTI3_12_2013_000181B)
CHENNAI : TAMILNADU : 12/03/2013 : A view of commercial establishments were closed on Anna Salai due to a day long Bandh in favour of TESO in Chennai. Photo : R_Ravindran.
Jalpaiguri: Villagers surround the body of a wild elephant found near fields in Gajoldoba in Jalpaiguri on Tuesday. PTI Photo (PTI3_12_2013_000114A)
US Cardinal Timothy Dolan, right, and Cardinal Ricardo J. Vidal, of the Philippines, attend a Mass for the election of a new pope celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, not pictured, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday to elect the next pope amid more upheaval and uncertainty than the Catholic Church has seen in decades: There's no front-runner, no indication how long voting will last and no sense that a single man has what it takes to fix the many problems. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, right, accompanied by FBI Director Robert Mueller, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2013, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats. Clapper delivered the U.S. intelligence community's overview of global threats posed by terrorism, cyber attacks, weapons of mass destruction, the months-long civil war in Syria and the unsettled situation in post-Arab Spring nations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
China's top leaders from left, outgoing-Chairman of the National People's Congress, Wu Bangguo, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Chinese Communist Party chief and incoming-President Xi Jinping, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and incoming-Premier Li Keqiang stand for the national anthem during the closing session of the annual Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing. Photo: AP
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greets members of the Pakistani delegation before an inauguration of the Pakistan-Iran Gas Pipeline Project with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari in Gabd, near the Pakistani border in Iran. Photo: AP
A woman holds a doll of late President Hugo Chavez at a rally in support of acting President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Photo: AP
Three men lie dead inside a public bus after unknown gunmen opened fire on them in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico. Photo: AP
A Fairchild Air Force Base helicopter touches down on Coffee Pot Road as a Navy chopper circles the crash site of a Navy aircraft in Washington state. Photo: AP