Glimpses from India and around the world that will make you smile and cry.
First Hybrid Humans
IMAGE: An AI-reconstructed image, created at Tel Aviv University, shows a mixed Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens family.
The image is based on research conducted by an Israeli-French team on a prehistoric child's skull, believed to be the world's earliest known human fossil exhibiting a combination of Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens traits. Photograph: Tel Aviv University/Handout via/Reuters
IMAGE: Professor Israel Hershkovitz of the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University, holds the remains of the prehistoric child skull. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
Trapped in Rubble
IMAGE: Palestinian Saja Hamad lies trapped under the rubble of a house hit by an Israeli strike in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip. Photograph: Reuters
IMAGE: Saja was rescued and is now recovering in hospital. Photograph: Reuters
Carrying Through the Floods
IMAGE: A man carries a family member on his back as he wades through a flooded street in Mumbai. Photograph: Reuters
Jalandhar Under Water
IMAGE: School students make their way through a waterlogged road in Jalandhar. Photograph: ANI Photo
Ganga Forces Exodus
IMAGE: People with their belongings move to safer places in Kanpur as the water level of the Ganga rises. Photograph: ANI Photo
Sarvari In Spate
IMAGE: The flooded Sarvari river following a cloudburst in the Lag valley in Kullu. Photograph: ANI Photo
Yamuna Swallows Mathura Ghats
IMAGE: Flooded ghats in Mathura after the Yamuna flows over the danger mark. Photograph: ANI Photo
Faith Ignores Floods
IMAGE: A man prayers to a Shivaling at Gola Ghat in Kanpur even as water levels of the Ganga crosses the danger mark. Photograph: ANI Photo
Parliamentary Protest
IMAGE: Opposition MPs protest as Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks in the Lok Sabha. Photograph: Sansad TV/Video Grab/ANI Photo
Is Priyanka Ignoring Dr T?
IMAGE: Is Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi giving party MP Shashi Tharoor -- whose recent comments have not gone down well with the Congress leadership -- the cold shoulder? Photograph: Rahul Singh/ANI Photo
Ukraine Hides Below
IMAGE: People take shelter inside a metro station during a Russian air raid alert in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters
Hamare Mange Poori Karon!
IMAGE: Diploma In Elementary Education students (session 2023-2025) protest outside the Bihar State Electricity Board office in Patna demanding immediate release of the 2nd year result and an opportunity to appear in the TRE-4 recruitment exam. Photograph: ANI Photo
Sadar Bazar Goes Swadeshi
IMAGE: A Federation of Sadar Bazar Trades Association member puts up a poster for Swadeshi goods at a shops in Sadar Bazar in New Delhi following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day call to buy Swadeshi products. Photograph: ANI Photo
Save Hockey
IMAGE: A hockey player protests at Dinku Road, Khuman Lampak in Imphal East, Manipur. Photograph: ANI Photo
Photographs curated by Anant Salvi/Rediff
Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale/Rediff
