2012-09-20 Photo gallery

Samajwadi Party activists shout slogans during a protest along railway tracks in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Angry opposition workers have disrupted train services as part of a daylong strike in India to protest rising diesel prices a...

Indian railway policemen stand near a burning effigy representing the Indian government during a protest along railway tracks in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Angry opposition workers have disrupted train services as part of a daylong s...

Nepalese women pose for a picture during the Rishi Panchami festival, in Kathmandu September 20, 2012. Rishi Panchami is observed on the last day of Teej when women worship Sapta Rishi (Seven Saints) to ask for forgiveness for sins committed during t...

An Indian resident rests his head in his hands in front of closed shops at Lajpat Nagar market in New Delhi early September 20, 2012. Opposition parties and trade unions called for shopkeepers, traders and labourers in India to block railway lines an...

Samajwadi Party activists hold an effigy representing Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his cabinet colleagues before burning it during a protest along railway tracks in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Angry opposition workers have...

Activists of India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shout anti government slogans in front of burning tyres during a one day strike in Jammu on September 20, 2012. Opposition parties and trade unions called for shopkeepers, traders an...

Mumbai: Director Madhur Bhandarkar and actress Kareena Kapoor perform worship of Lord Ganesh on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai on Tuesday. PTI

Activists of India's main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a nationwide strike in the old quarters of Delhi September 20, 2012. Schools, shops and government of...

Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne with DRDO Director General V K Saraswat and D G Elangovan, Chief Controller R & D, during a function of modified, EMB-145 aircraft of the AEW&C programme in Bengaluru on Thursday. PTI

BJP workers stop the traffic during their nationwide protest against FDI in retail and fuel price hike in Ahmedabad on Thursday. PTI

Workers take rest at their shop at Koyambedu market in Chennai during Bharat bandh protest over FDI in retail and fuel price hike on Thursday. PTI

UP BJP Chief Lakshmikant Vajpayee, Ramesh Pokhriyal and other leaders holding a protest against FDI in multi-brand retail and hike in diesel prices in Meerut on Thursday. PTI

President Pranab Mukherjee shakes hands with his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa during a meeting at rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI

A participant does push-ups backstage during a bodybuilding competition in Srinagar September 20, 2012. A total of 70 participants are competing in different bodybuilding categories, organisers said. REUTERS

Pawan Goenka, President of Automotive, Mahindra & Mahindra, during the launch of their new SUV Quanto in Mumbai on Thursday. PTI

Barbers doing their business outside closed shops during nationwide protest protest against the government's recent decisions to increase diesel prices, and allow FDI in multi-brand retail, in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI

Devotees carry a statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, into the Arabian Sea on the first day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai September 20, 2012. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession acc...

BJP activists take out a bike rally during their protest against FDI in retail and fuel price hike in Gurgaon on Thursday. PTI

A supporter throws a teargas canister, which was earlier thrown by police, during clashes along a road which leads to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad September 20, 2012. Some 800 protesters march towards the U.S. embassy gathered in a demonstration to ...

Force India Formula One driver Nico Hulkenberg of Germany smiles as he rests at the team's suite at the paddock of Marina Bay Street Circuit ahead of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix September 20, 2012. REUTERS