February 20: Delhi and beyond, in pictures

The day’s developments, events and newsmakers

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Photo courtesy: IANS
Photo courtesy: IANS
Security beefed up near Line of Control (LoC) in Churanda village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri a day after Indian and Pakistani troops traded heavy fire across the LoC in Baramulla.
Photo courtesy: PTI
Photo courtesy: PTI
A supporter clicks picture of Congress President Rahul Gandhi with his mobile phone at an election campaign rally, ahead of Meghalaya Assembly polls at Mendhipathar in North Garo Hills district.

Photo courtesy: Pramod Pushkarna
Photo courtesy: Pramod Pushkarna
A site for  war memorial and museum at north of India Gate road which leads to Kasturba Gandhi Marg is closed for parking in New Delhi.
Photo courtesy: IANS/PIB
Photo courtesy: IANS/PIB
President Ram Nath Kovind with a delegation of a youth from Jammu and Kashmir at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi.

Photo courtesy: IANS
Photo courtesy: IANS
Punjab police personnel along with SGPC Task Force participate in a full dress rehearsal at Golden Temple ahead of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to Amritsar.
Photo courtesy: IANS
Photo courtesy: IANS
JNU students march towards Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to protest against their vice chancellor in New Delhi.

Photo courtesy: IANS
Photo courtesy: IANS
Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi addresses during a seminar on menstrual health in New Delhi
Photo courtesy: PTI
Photo courtesy: PTI
People walk outside the Calcutta High Court during 2nd day of the lawyers’ 5-day cease-work, in Kolkata.

Photo courtesy: PTI
Photo courtesy: PTI
Women from Muslim community participate in a demonstration rally against triple talaq bill at Raj Bhawan in Bhopal.
Photo courtesy: PTI
Photo courtesy: PTI
Congress activists shout slogans during a protest over the Punjab National Bank scam outside Governor’s house in Kolkata.

 PTI
PTI
All India Democratic Student’s Organisation (AIDSO) activists hold placards and raise slogans against DMRC for metro fair hike, outside Metro Bhawan in New Delhi 
. AP/PTI
. AP/PTI
Refugees and migrants are rescued by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, after leaving Libya trying to reach European soil aboard an overcrowded rubber boat, 60 miles north of Al-Khums, Libya.

AP/PTI
AP/PTI
In this photo released on Tuesday Feb. 20, 2018 which provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense run to help survivors from a street that attacked by airstrikes and shelling of the Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria. A Syrian monitoring group and paramedics say government shelling and airstrikes on rebel-held suburbs of the capital, Damascus, killed at least 98 people on Monday. 
 AP/PTI
AP/PTI
In this multiple exposure photo, Andi Naude, of Canada, jumps during the women’s moguls finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, 

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