October 24: Delhi and beyond, in pictures

The day’s developments, events and newsmakers

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File Photo: IANS
File Photo: IANS
M Nageswar Rao took temporary charge of the CBI or Central Bureau of Investigation in the early hours of the day in New Delhi
PTI
PTI
File photo shows Central Bureau of Investigation Chief Alok Verma at Supreme Court in New Delhi. 

PTI
PTI
Electoral officials demonstrate how to use an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) to locals during a voter awareness programme ahead of Rajasthan State Assembly elections, in Bikaner.
IANS
IANS
Workers busy making firecrackers at a workshop ahead of Diwali, in Ahmedabad.

PTI
PTI
Women sell traditional earthen pots for the upcoming Diwali festival, in Bikaner.
PTI
PTI
NCC cadets take part in a Polio eradication awareness rally on World Polio Day, in Jabalpur.

PTI
PTI
Buddhist monks take part in ‘Kathina Chivaar Daan’, a robe-offering ceremony, at Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya.
PTI
PTI
Polivce detain Youth Congress activists during a protest against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over the ‘bank fraud cases’, in Mumbai.

IANS
IANS
Police personnel present at the site where an explosion in Varanasi occurred inside a house, reportedly killing one person Lahartara area.
PTI
PTI
People inspect a damaged house where two militants were killed during an encounter with security forces at Nowgam on the outskirts of Srinagar. A cordon and search operations were launched in the city by security personnel after they received information that a few militants had sneaked in the area. 

AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, left, and Prince Charles, center, accompany King Willem-Alexander, second right, and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands in viewing Dutch items from the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace in London. Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima are on a two-day State Visit to Britain. 
AP/PTI
AP/PTI
President Donald Trump with, from left, Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark Milley, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, listen to questions from members of the media during a briefing with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington.

NH photo
NH photo
National Sikh Campaign is working to promote a major documentary on Guru Nanak’s life which will be transmitted on 250 public TV stations in the US. Connecticut Public TV station will host it and will make it available on the World channel.
IANS
IANS
Afghan farmers work at a potato farm in Bamyan province, central Afghanistan. The picturesque Bamiyan province with its beautiful landscape has been a popular tourist destination in the conflict-ridden Afghanistan over the past decades, and growing potatoes in recent years has added to Bamiyan’s natural charm. 

IANS
IANS
A racer competes during the buffalo racing in Chonburi. Hundreds of buffaloes took part in the centuries-old buffalo racing festival held annually in October among rice farmers to celebrate the rice harvest. 

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