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REWIND: India in the last 24 hours

October 21, 2016 08:35 IST

Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rupa Ganguly leads a protest march near West Bengal chief minister Mamata Baerjee's residence in Kolkata against the recent attack on Union Minister and party leader Babul Suprio. Photograph: PTI Photo


Congress workers torch Rita Bahuguna Joshi's poster in Lucknow after she left the party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo


West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sprinkles mustard seeds as farming resumes in Singur at the demolished Nano car plant site after a decade. Photograph: Ashok Bhaumik/PTI Photo


A girl shows a mortar shell fired from across the Line of Control by Pakistan in village Panjgrain, Rajouri district of Jammu on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo


All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supporters conduct special prayers for speedy recovery of party supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in front of Apollo hospital in Chennai on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo


A woman with her daughter collecting water Chestnuts from the polluted part of Dal Lake in Srinagar on Thursday. Photograph: S Irfan/PTI Photo


Members of Jamiat Ulama -E- Maharashtra protest against Uniform Civil Code in Mumbai on Thursday. Photograph: Shashank Parade/PTI Photo


Fire fighters try to douse the fire that broke down at a godown containing crackers in Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo


Punjab Police Director General of Police Suresh Arora inspects intoxicants in Amritsar on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo


Union Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates the MMTC Festival of Gold in New Delhi on Thursday. Photograph: Atul Yadav/PTI Photo


Army jawans and Jammu Kashmir Police during a search operation after dozens of rusted grenades and bullets were recovered during excavation in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo