May 29: Delhi and beyond, in  pictures

The day’s developments, events and newsmakers

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Photo: Twitter
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik leaves after offering prayers at the Jagannath Temple ahead of taking oath as the Chief Minister for the fifth consecutive term, in Puri.
Photo by Vipin
Photo by Vipin
Former Delhi CM and senior Congress leader, Sheila Dikshitt reached Rahul Gandhi’s residence to urge him to not resign.

Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
A view of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) office that was burnt during a clash between BJP and TMC workers, at Melanpur village in Birbhum district of West Bengal.
PTI Photo
PTI Photo
Auto union members protest during their one-day chakka jam demanding increase in meter fair, in Jammu.

PTI Photo
PTI Photo
Muslim devotees arrange food inside a mosque as they prepare to break their day long fast during the holy month of Ramadan in Kolkata.
Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
Traditional vermicelli being sold at a market ahead of Eid, in Raipur.

Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
India’s youngest MP Chandrani Murmu of BJD pose for a photograph with her mother Urvashi Soren (L), in Bhubaneswar.
AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Associated Press Middle East editor Lee Keath, from left, joins AP’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners for International Reporting, Nariman El-Mofty, Maggie Michael and Maad al-Zikry, who joins by El-Mofty’s cellphone video, after they received their certificates at an awards luncheon at Columbia University, in New York. 

AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Demonstrators carry a statue of the Virgin Mary featuring a green handkerchief that symbolizes the abortion rights movement in Argentina, during a protest to legalize abortion outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Two young men wait outside a morgue for the release of the body of their brother Gabriel Hilario de Jesus, an inmate who was killed in the recent prison riots, in Manaus, Brazil. Dozens of inmates were killed in different prisons in Amazon state in the last two days.

Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
A farmer busy bathing his cattle at Valvanti River in Sanquelim, Goa.
`Photo: IANS
`Photo: IANS
The girls hostel where a massive fire broke out, in Janakpuri area of New Delhi. Five inmates were hospitalised after being rescued from the hostel. More than 50 other hostellers were evacuated safely. According to officials, the fire was sparked by a short circuit in the basement of the building and soon spread to the ground and first floors. 

Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
People wash utensils using water accumulated near a pipeline, as they face water shortage, in Patna.
Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
A still from the video of a woman threatening to jump off a roof of a multi-storey building in a Haryana housing society in Gurugram, that has gone viral on social media. The woman is seen standing at the edge of the roof as others are trying to dissuade her.

Pramod Pushkarna
Pramod Pushkarna
A Family keeping finding solace from the heat at Raj Path lawn in New Delhi
Pramod Pushkarna
Pramod Pushkarna
Scorching heat in the capital kept Raj Path deserted on Wednesday

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