2012-12-09 Photo gallery

The 'Great Stupa' at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh. Photo by Uday Maitra

The 'Great Stupa' at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh. Photo by Uday Maitra

The World Upside down Gravity Defying photographs by French conceptual artist Philippe Ramette at gallery Sumukha in Bangalore on Saturday Dec 2012. DH photo

India's M S Dhoni with Yuvraj Singh ,Gautam Gambhir and Ishant Sharma reacts after they lost 3rd Test match against England at Eden Garden in Kolkata on Sunday. PTI Photo

England Captain Alastair Cook smiling after victory over India during the 3rd Test Match at Eden Garden in Kolkata on Sunday. PTI Photo

Priyanka Chopra arrives at a photocall during the 12th International Marrakech Film Festival in Marrakech December 8, 2012. REUTERS photo

Actress Priyanka Chopra, Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri and jury president and British film director John Boorman pose after receiving the Golden Star award for the film 'The Attack' during the award ceremony of the 12th International Marrakech Film ...

Indian Army Chief Bikram Singh poses in the driver's seat of a classic automobile during a vintage car parade in New Delhi on December 9,2012. More than a hundred vintage automobiles and motorcycles were on display and flagged off during the car rall...

Gujarat state police and Home Guard officials pose with their voter identity cards at The Postal Ballot Issue Centres at the Police Head Quarters (HQ) in Ahmedabad on December 9, 2012. Large numbers of police officials and homeguards thronged to cast...

Danish Muftaba of India (C) fights for the ball with Muhammad Ateeq of Pakistan in front of goal during the bronze medal match at the men's Hockey Champions Trophy tournament in Melbourne on December 9, 2012.  AFP photo

Muhammad Rizwan Snr (L) and Shakeel Abbasi of Pakistan (R) show off their bronze medals after their victory over India in the men's Hockey Champions Trophy tournament in Melbourne on December 9, 2012. Pakistan won the match 3-2. AFP PHOTO

An Indian man bails water from his boat while surrounded by polluted foam in New Delhi at dawn on December 9, 2012. India's Supreme Court said on December 8, all parameters of water quality of river Yamuna indicate that it resembles a drain and urged...

Forest officials ride tame elephants as they try to free an injured elephant (bottom) from a mud pit in Goalpara district in the eastern Indian state of Assam December 8, 2012. The elephant has been stuck in the mud pit for three days and has been...

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at a function in Vadodara on Sunday. PTI Photo

Forest officials, on domestic elephants, try to push an injured wild elephant after it was attacked by poachers at the foothills of Pancharatna hills in Goalpara district of lower Assam, India, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. The poachers cut off two tusks ...

A member of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender) community participates in a game during the Rainbow Carnival in Kolkata on December 9, 2012. The day long carnival was organised to show solidarity for the cause and to raise voices fo...

Guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal, Lead Vocalist Axl Rose and DJ Ashba of Guns 'N' Roses performs during a concert in Mumbai on Sunday night. PTI Photo