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Indian paramilitary soldiers performed neck exercises after rehearsals for the upcoming Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India, Wednesday.
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Indian paramilitary soldiers performed neck exercises after rehearsals for the upcoming Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India, Wednesday.
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Indian schoolgirls ride on a bicycle rickshaw during a break in the monsoon rains near the Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 5, 2011.
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Commuters leave after days work as monsoon clouds gathered over New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011.
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The police tried to disperse protesters with water as they demonstrated outside the office of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or R.S.S., in New Delhi. The protest was against a former R.S.S. chief, K. Sudarshan, who recently accused the Congress Party president in India, Sonia Gandhi, of being an American C.I.A. agent.
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An Indian soldier stood guard during curfew in Srinagar, India, Thursday. Unrest against New Delhi’s rule in Kashmir has roiled the disputed Himalayan region for the past three months, resulting in at least 94 deaths — including 22 from police fire this week.
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A worker loaded crushed rocks into a truck at a construction site Monday in New Delhi in preparation for the Commonwealth Games, which start in October.
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An Indian man passed his daughter above the crowd as he and other tried to board a crowded train at a train station in New Delhi. Most rail stations at most Indian cities are crowded throughout the year but get exceptionally packed in the summer months, when schools close for breaks and people travel to visit friends and relatives.
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An Indian mahout bathed his elephant in the Yamuna River on a hot day in New Delhi.
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A woman cried after a fire destroyed her home in a slum area in Ghazipur, on the outskirts of New Delhi. The fire, which destroyed about 600 residences, was reportedly started after a power line fell.
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World Water Day: Mahendra Kumar surfaces to catch his breath as he dives into a polluted section of the River Yamuna to scavenge for ornaments and coins left by Hindu rituals at the river bank, in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 22, 2010. Officials say factories are ignoring regulations and dumping untreated sewage and industrial pollution, turning toxic the river that gives the capital much of its drinking water.
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A worker in New Delhi helped prepare coloured powder for the Indian festival of Holi, a brilliant celebration of spring.
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A man held a child near the Indian Parliament in New Delhi during a protest by people from across the country on issues including rising inflation, unemployment and food security. The budget session of the Parliament began Monday.
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A man is seen silhouetted as he smokes on the banks of the River Yamuna in New Delhi, India, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Despite a 2001 Supreme Court ruling ordering the cleanup of the Yamuna, and despite billions in government spending to do just that, the waterway that supplies 70 percent of New Delhi’s water remains a frothy, putrid sewer.
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An Indian woman works at a construction project in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on February 01, 2010 in New Delhi, India. The Commonwealth Games are due to be held in the Indian capital from October 3-14, 2010, but concerns remain over construction of its sporting and transport infrastructure. The sheer scale of the project has drawn an enormous population of migrant workers from all over India.
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The fingers of a woman in a state of trance are seen through a lattice wall at the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya in New Delhi February 4, 2010.
