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 Rare visual treat... Combo picture shows various phases of the solar eclipse visible between 4:39 pm and 4:57 pm in Bangalore on Monday. The top strip is from the Vidhana Soudha and the bottom strip from the Nehru Planetarium. Bangaloreans could only catch glimpses of the celestial treat as clouds played spoilsport obscuring visibility completely after 5 pm. 
DH photos/ S Eshwar/Anantha Subramanyam K

Hurriyat leader Prof Abdul Ghani Bhat (left), Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed (centre) and National 
Conference chief Farooq Abdullah at a function on the premises of SP college in Srinagar on Monday. The trio were the students of 
the college and shared a single dais to celebrate its centenary celebrations.
 PTI 

Occupational hazard... The guzzler of gallons of water is forced to quench his thirst with piped supply. The jumbo and his mendicant 
master arrived in Mangalore from Ujjain and are on their way to Dharmasthala. 
DH Photo/ Anand Bakshi 

Arranging colourful dolls is a traditional way to celebrate Dasara in the south of India.If it is arranging of dolls for the elderly, for the young, Dasara is all about getting together and spending the nights dancing. 
DH photo

 A sign is seen outside a Boots pharmacist in Fleet Street in London on Monday.Retail giant Boots is set to merge with one of its biggest rivals, Alliance UniChem, in a bid to form Britain's largest pharmacy chain. 
AFP

Liberians pass beneath a poster of presidential candidate Varney Sherman (L), in Monrovia the capital of Liberia on Monday.The country has been crippled by 14 years of civil war. Elections scheduled for 11 October 2005 are to put an end to the political transition process led by President Charles Gyude Wade, who took office in October 2003, two months after the end of  civil war and the departure into exile of former President Charles Taylor.
 AFP  

 Picture perfect... Ballerinas from the English National Ballet pose in front of a painting by the French impressionist Edgar Degas entitled ‘Yellow Dancers’, at the Tate Britain art gallery in London on Monday.
AP

 Ready for the big fight (kusti)... Young wrestlers who have come from different places, waiting in a queue to check their weights, to 
register their names for Dasara wrestling competition beginning from Tuesday.
DH photo

Celebrating the wild... Artiste Ganesh Somayaji gives final touches to a painting of a peacock started by Deputy Conservator of 
Forests Anitha Arekal as she inaugurated Wildlife Week celebrations at Pilikula Nisarga Dhama in Mangalore on Monday.
DH photo 

The monkey menace in Tumkur has seen a rise in the past two years due to the felling of trees on the National Highway No 4. The trees served as a natural habitat for the monkeys.
DH photo 

 ICC World XI one-day skipper Shaun Pollock (left) and Australian captain Ricky Ponting hold the Super Series one-day trophy aloft in Melbourne on Monday.
AFP

 The St Lawrence Church in all its glory.