In Pics: India This Week

The Quint brings you a specially curated snapshot of what happened in India this past week.

A flood affected boy floats in a container in Katahguri village along river Brahmaputra, east of Assam’s Guwahati, on Sunday, 14 July 2019. 

(Photo: AP/Anupam Nath)

Beyond the headlines and behind the scenes, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India this week, from 12 July to 19 July 2019.

An Amaranth pilgrim applies tilak on forehead as he rests at a base camp after the yatra was suspended due to restrictions imposed in Kashmir on Martyrs Day, in Jammu on Saturday, 13 July 2019.

Firefighters carry out rescue operation at a massive fire at a hardware factory in Jhilmil industrial area, in New Delhi.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh pays tributes to the fallen soldiers at the National War Memorial in New Delhi, Sunday, 14 July 2019, during the flag off ceremony of the Victory Flame which will reach Drass on Vijay Diwas.

ISRO’s GSLV Mk-III rocket rests at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota a day before the scheduled 15 July launch. The launch was called off due to a technical snag in the GSLV launch vehicle.

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy leaves after attending the Assembly session at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, Monday, 15 July. The ruling Cong-JD(S) government is on the verge of collapse after 15 MLAs submitted their resignations earlier this month.

Rescue workers rescue a child from the site of the collapsed four-storey Kesarbai building at Dongri in Mumbai. The building collapsed on Tuesday 16 July, killing 13 people. 

Jammu and Kashmir police special operations group (SOG) on a personnel patrol in Srinagar, Thursday, 18 July 2019.

Relatives of victims mourn outside a government hospital after three people were beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of cattle theft in Bihar’s Chapra district.

A boy repairs his cycle as vehicles ply at a road during rains in New Delhi, Monday, July 15, 2019. 

Police use water cannons to disperse Jan Adhikar Party supporters during their Vidhan Sabha gherao protest over the death of children due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and other issues, in Patna.

The earth’s umbra partially shadows the moon during a partial lunar eclipse in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, 17 July 2019. This lunar eclipse is visible in the countries of South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, according to NASA. 

One-horned rhinoceros seen at an elevated area following floods due to incessant monsoon rainfall in Kaziranga National Park, on Thursday, 18 July.

Villagers on a makeshift banana raft cross flood water in Jhargaon, east of Gauhati, Assam, on Wednesday, 17 July.