2012-12-26 Photo gallery

UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav and his family members during a meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday. PTI Photo

Bhartiya Janata Party politician and Minister of Fisheries for Gujarat Purshottam Solanki (C) greets Chief Minister for the western Indian state of Gujarat Narendra Modi (R) during the swearing in ceremony of Modi at The Sardar Patel Navrangpura Stad...

Policemen use batons to control the crowd of cricket fans jostling for tickets for the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. The first bilateral series between India and Pakistan since...

Sadhus warm themselves by a fire on the banks of the “Sangam,” the confluence of the three rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati in Allahabad on December 26, 2012, ahead of The Maha Kumbh Mela. The Kumbh Mela, which is scheduled to take pl...

Students and others shout slogans and hold placards as they take part in a protest rally in Allahabad on December 26, 2012, following the rape of a student in the Indian capital on December 16. India's government has ordered a special inquiry into th...

A Hindu holy man who has arrived ahead of the month-long Mahakumbh festival sits at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna in Allahabad, India, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to arrive here in January fo...

Police personnel after receiving new bikes for patrolling by the authority in Noida on Wednesday. PTI Photo

A visitor at a 'rangoli' exhibhition held to pay homage to Balasaheb Thackeray at the Shiv Sena Bhavan in Mumbai on Wednesday. PTI Photo

Communist Party leaders and activists protesting against FDI in the retail sector in front of the office of Walmart in Chennai on Wednesday. PTI Photo