May 13: Delhi and beyond, in pictures

The day’s developments, events and newsmakers

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi is felicitated by party’s candidate from Fatehgarh Sahib, Amar Singh, and others during a public meeting ahead of the last phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Gaggar Majra village, Khanna, in Ludhiana district.
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Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba shakes hands with US Navy, Admiral John Michael Richardson, during guard of honour at South Block, in New Delhi.

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Irom Sharmila’s husband Desmond Coutinho with the newborn twins. Irom Sharmila also known as the Iron Lady of India gave birth to twin girls on Sunday, which also coincided with Mother’s Day at a hospital in Bengaluru 
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Officials work for the allotment of the EVMs and VVPAT machines at a distribution centre, ahead of the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Varanasi.

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Former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar arrive to appear before Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a bank loan fraud and money laundering case probe, in New Delhi.
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CPI(M) candidate from Kolkata-South Parliamentary constituency Nandini Mukherjee interacts with an elderly woman during her election campaign for the last phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Kolkata.

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Women take part in a voting awareness rally, ahead of the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Varanasi.
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Protesters hold placards as they shout slogans during a protest against the alleged rape of a three-year-old girl by a local in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir, in Srinagar.

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Workers take rest on a heap of mangoes at a wholesale fruit market in Jammu.
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The century-old Grand hotel engulfed in flames after a massive fire, in Shimla.

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A man stands near a house of a ‘Pattachitra’ artist, damaged in the aftermath of cyclone ‘Fani’, at Amphi Theatre, Raghurajpur village, in Puri district.
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Drago Ban inspects the damage to his car from fallen branches of a tree, in Zagreb, Croatia. Stormy winds have uprooted trees, knocked over traffic lights and disrupted traffic in Croatia, injuring two people and prompting authorities on Monday to advise people to stay indoors. 

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Police intervene after BJP supporters and TMC activists clashed near the venue of the party president Amit Shah’s election campaign rally that was cancelled after the landowner who had rented out his property reportedly withdrew his consent, at Baruipur, in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
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Voters check their names on the list posted outside polling precincts prior to voting in Manila, Philippines for the country’s midterm elections. Nearly 62 million Filipinos have registered to choose among 43,500 candidates vying for about 18,000 congressional and local posts in Monday’s elections in one of Asia’s most rambunctious democracies. 

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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, right, attends a roundtable event with Pasifika Community Organizations and International NGOs during his visit to Auckland, New Zealand. Guterres is on a three-day visit to New Zealand as part of a trip to the South Pacific to highlight the problems of climate change. 
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A police officer and resident look out at an abandoned pier after an earthquake made the office structure at the end incline to the right, in Puerto Armuelles. Authorities had no reports of serious damage or injuries more than two hours after the 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck a lightly populated area of Panama near its border with Costa Rica. 

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Artist Thomas Dambo, of Denmark, hugs Tori and Lexi Garner, and Jade and Paige Batdorff, who found the heart-shaped stone that the troll known as Isak Heartstone, background, was named after, at its new location in Breckenridge, Colo. The troll was originally built near the Wellington neighborhood in part of an annual Breckenridge Creative Arts event last summer. It became very popular among visitors, causing the troll to be taken down and moved to its new current location. 

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