Buddhist monks participate in an International Tipitaka Chanting ceremony, praying for World Peace, at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, April 6, 2022.
A view of the Meenakshi Amman temple in Madurai as the annual Chithirai festival commences with its traditional flag hoisting ceremony.
A worker carries out restoration work at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus heritage building in Mumbai.
The Navratri festival begins on Monday, September 26, 2022.
Workers renovate a minister's room at the Vidhan Bhawan in Lucknow before it is occupied.
Artists perform on a Bhubaneswar street on the occasion of National Street Theatre Day, April 12, 2022.
Navy personnel perform yoga on board INS Vikramaditya. In the run-up to the International Day of Yoga, several naval ships are conducting yoga and meditation sessions on board.
A student with his mother walks past a mural depicting the Royal Bengal Tiger painted by Italian wildlife painter Maurizio Boshceri in collaboration with artists from the Government College of Arts in Kolkata.
Artists dressed up as cocks entertain students at a book distribution programme at Jayanagar in Bengaluru, June 28, 2022.
Awareness about the use of 'Battery Cages' and cruelty against birds in Connaught Place, New Delhi.
Yeh Hai India: Capturing Events And Moods Across Our Incredible Country.
Devotees pull the Swarna Ratham during the ongoing Navaratri Brahmotsavam celebrations at Tirumala in Tirupati.
The Indian Army's Durga Battalion rescued a man stranded in the Betar river in Poonch on Sunday, July 17, 2022.
Jharkhand traffic Police Constable Upendra Kumar Ray -- who was felicitated by senior police officers for his extraordinary contribution in managing traffic -- displays his impressive moustache in Ranchi.
The song that best encapsulates Geeta Dutt's unfairly abbreviated life would probably be: Yaad Karoge, Yaad Karoge, Ek Din Humko Yaad Karoge. On her 95th birth anniversary on November 23, Dinesh Raheja pieces together the life of this talented singer.
Soldiers display their combat skills at the Nagrota military station in Jammu.
A flock of pigeons fly over a rice field during the rice harvest season on the outskirts of Srinagar, September 19, 2022.
A mahout rides his elephant on the GS Road amidst heavy traffic in Guwahati, August 28, 2022.
Yeh Hai India: Capturing Events And Moods Across Our Incredible Country.
A woman being frisked amid sporadic security checks ahead of Republic Day in Srinagar.
The tourist arrivals this year are said to be the highest in a decade.
A one-horned rhinoceros and her newborn calf swim in a pond to beat the heat on a hot summer day at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Morigaon, Assam.
Ramashankar Gupta, an RTI activist from Chattisgarh, gets his beard shaved after 21 years on the fulfillment of his wish to make Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur a new district, September 11, 2022.
Villagers brave slippery terrain to collect water due to an extreme water shortage in winter, in Lahaul and Spiti.
A volunteer of the NGO Hindu Utsav Bhagyanagar Samithi distributes free buttermilk to commuters in Hyderabad on a hot summer day.
As the rest of India swelters in unbearable heat, respite appears on the horizon with the first showers in Kerala.
A clever pigeon quenches its thirst from a water outlet on a hot summer day in Prayagraj.
Monkeys are a constant presence and a menace in what is called Lutyens' Delhi, around government offices and even around the Sanctuary of Indian Democracy.
A labourer lifts a 50 kg bag of wheat using his teeth at a grain market, in Bathinda, April 17, 2022.
You can be elderly, you may find it difficult to walk, but you can't keep an Indian away from the ballot box.
Indian Army soldiers walked for 15 km in continuous snowfall and zero visibility to successfully rescue 16.civilians stranded amid heavy snowfall from the Sinthan Pass in Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir,
Nag Panchami will be celebrated on August 2.
Temperatures are shooting up in central and westeren India, but parts of northern India had a brief respite with unseasonal rainfall on Wednesday, like what the Ridge in Shimla experienced.
82-year-old retired government employee Muthu offers prayers at the temple he has built in memory of his dog Tom, who died due to health issues, at Manamadurai, Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu.
An artist gives finishing touches to an idol of Goddess Durga ahead of the Durga Puja festival at Kumartuli in Kolkata, September 11, 2022.
Preparations are underway for Gudhi Padwa -- the Maharashtrian new year celebrated in Maharashtra and Goa -- and the Mervekar family of Girgaum in south Mumbai is engaged in making various types of Gudhis for the occasion.
18 years ago, an angry sea wreaked havoc across coastal Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
The 83 km long road has been used since the time of the Mughals.
The family arranged this grand homecoming as the newborn is the first girl child in the family.
An ill woman being carried by her family members for 12 km to reach the nearest medical facility in the Badiyar area of Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, July 19, 2022.
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