People gather to offer prayers at 'Shri Badarinath Dham' temple in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand on Saturday. An aircraft flies past in the backdrop of the 'Christ the Redeemer' statue amid cloudy conditions at Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on Saturday. People dry wheat to prepare traditional dishes during 'Nahay Khay' in Patna, Bihar on Saturday. A woman performs 'boron' ritual as the Kali Puja festival concludes in Bhopal. An elderly man takes a selfie with bloomi

Women take part in 'Kalash Shobha Yatra' in Kanpur on Friday. A worker arranges bananas at a wholesale market ahead of the Chhath Puja festival in Prayagraj on Friday. Orthodox nuns attend the procession of Saint Dimitrie Bassarabov, the patron saint of the Romanian capital, in Bucharest. People participate in the 3rd international Tawang Marathon in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh on Friday. A pair of langurs in Pushkar, Rajasthan on Friday.

Devotees perform rituals at banks of the Yamuna river during 'Bhai Dooj' festival in Prayagraj on Thursday. A woman dressed in traditional attire applies 'tilak' on her forehead, as she poses for a picture ahead of the 'Chhath' festival at the Yamuna riverfront on Thursday. A camel herder arrives with his animals at the 'Camel Fair' in Pushkar, Ajmer on Thursday. An artiste performs with fire during the immersion of an idol of Goddess Kali after the Kali Puja festival in Kolk

People light firecrackers as part of Diwali festival celebrations in Kanpur. A man plucks lotus flowers from a pond for sale during the festive season in Birbhum. People carry a young girl dressed as a Kumari for worship during Kali Puja festivities in Agartala, Tripura on Tuesday. People light firecrackers as part of Diwali festival celebrations in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. A girl performs on a mallakhamb pole as fireworks light up the sky during the Diwali festival of light

Priests perform 'Maha Aarti' at Assi Ghat during Diwali in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on Monday morning. A musician plays a flute during a smoggy morning, near India Gate in New Delhi on Monday. People visit the Taj Mahal during Diwali in Agra on Monday. Models wear creations from the Fauve collection during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo on Sunday. Sumo wrestlers Daieisho and Roga, facing, compete in a Grand Sumo Tournament bout on the dohyo, the sacred sumo wrestling

A man with his hand-pulled rickshaw passes by idols of mythological demons displayed for sale ahead of Kali Puja festival in Kolkata on Saturday. ‘Diyas’ are lit along the Kartavya Path amid a drone show during ‘Delhi Deepotsav’ event at the India Gate in New Delhi on Saturday. Artist Rosa Caitanya Hamilton Azevedo is carried by members of the group aerial circus Pendurados‚ Äù during a performance that explores healing from sexual violence through art and community in Brazil

Students of Ved Vidyalaya light ‘diyas’, earthen lamps, before leaving for their homes for the upcoming ‘Diwali’ festival in Prayagraj. Workers prepare garlands at Ghazipur flower market ahead of Diwali in New Delhi on Saturday. A farm worker plucks marigold flowers from a field for selling them during festive season at a village in Agra, Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. People purchase lanterns from a shop ahead of Diwali in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka on Saturday. People purchase

A woman places an earthen lamp next to a 'Rangoli' ahead of the 'Diwali' festival in Ahmedabad on Thursday. Miss Universe India 2025 Manika Vishwakarma at an event in New Delhi. Army officials celebrate Diwali along the Line of Control (LoC) near the India-Pakistan border in Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Rajasthani artists perform 'Ghoomar' during Lokrang Festival 2025 at Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, Rajasthan on Thursday. Indian Air Force and Coast Guard personne

People visit a lighting market to buy decorative lights ahead of Diwali in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Karol G performs during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on Wednesday in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A Rajasthani artists shows his long moustache to a foreign tourist during their journey in the Maharaja Express train, at Lalgarh Junction in Bikaner. An artisan works on an idol of Goddess Kali at a workshop ahead of ‘Kali Puja’ festival in Nadia, West Bengal on Thursda

An artisan paints earthen lamps ahead of the 'Diwali' festival in Amritsar on Tuesday. Italian President Sergio Mattarella, left, welcomes Pope Leo XIV as he arrives at the Quirinale Presidential Palace in Rome on Tuesday. A sarus crane reacts to an electric water pump at Dhanauri wetlands in Delhi-NCR. A woman works on an artifact at the 'Virasat Weaves – Handloom & Handicraft Expo 2025' in Bikaner on Tuesday. Naval officials during the fifth edition of the Indo-Indonesian J

Students dressed in traditional attire perform 'giddha', a traditional Punjabi folk dance, during the Zonal Youth Festival in Amritsar on Tuesday. A bull rests at the Kedarnath Dham complex in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand on Monday. A young man clicks a photo of a paragliding pilot during paragliding refresher course by Directorate of Tourism at Aithem View Point in Jammu on Monday. A fisherman carries his fishing net while walking with his bicycle on the bank of the G

A foreign participant takes pictures during the ‘Delhi Half Marathon’ at the Kartavya Path in New Delhi on Sunday. Singer Sunidhi Chauhan performs during the ‘Antaragni 2025’ at IIT Kanpur on Sunday. Artisans make earthen lamps ahead of the upcoming Diwali festival in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh on Monday. Volunteers hold placards as they take part in a rally on International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction in Agartala in Tripura on Monday. An artist works on a wall inscribing

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A young girl holds a clay model of Goddess Kali at a workshop ahead of Diwali in Nadia, West Bengal on Friday. Neelam Kothari walks the...

Devotees gather to offer prayers at Kedarnath Dham with snow-covered mountains in the background in Rudraprayag on Thursday. Two members...

People take a holy dip in 'sarovar' at Golden Temple on the birth anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas in Amritsar on Wednesday. A...

An artist paints a mural ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections in Patna on Tuesday. A potter makes earthen lamps at a workshop ahead of...

Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel during the full dress rehearsals for the Air Force Day parade at Hindon Air Force base in Ghaziabad on...

Farmers spray pesticide on paddy crops at a field in Bastar on Sunday. An artist fits ornaments on a clay idol of Goddess Lakshmi at his...