May 4: Delhi and beyond, in pictures

The day’s developments, events and newsmakers

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Congress President Shri Rahul Gandhi & AICC General Secy Smt Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at Mahila Workers Meeting at Korwa, District Amethi in Uttar Pradesh
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Congress senior leader P Chidambaram, Sam Pitroda, Anand Sharma and Ahmed Patel after addressing a press conference ahead of the fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls, at AICC HQ, in New Delhi.

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Photo: IANS
Congress’s Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal, Digvijaya Singh during an election campaign for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, in Bhopal .
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PTI Photo
Election staff gather at a distribution centre to receive polling material for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Bikaner.

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Photo: IANS
A view of the Bhubaneswar airport that suffered significant damage due to the impact of extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani’, The Central government expects to make the Bhubaneswar airport operational by 1 p.m. on Saturday, as the state remains cut off from rail and road channels in the wake of cyclonic storm Fani which made landfall earlier in the day in Odisha.
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IANS/PIB
An aerial view of the cyclone affected Puri after cyclone Fani made a landfall in Odisha on Friday and wreaked havoc. In the aftermath of the devastation caused by Extremely Severe Cyclone ‘Fani’, the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy has launched a massive rescue and rehabilitation effort in Odisha. 

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PTI Photo
A view of the destruction caused by Cyclone Fani after its landfall, in Puri.
Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
Villagers being ferried to the banks of Ganga river on a boat during a dust storm at Kala Diara village in Patna, Bihar is witnessing weather changes due to the impact of Cyclonic storm Fani. 

Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
A deserted platform of the Howrah Junction railway station after the Indian Railway has cancelled 223 trains in the Bhadrak-Vizianagaram section, along the coastal lines of Odisha on the Kolkata-Chennai route till May 4 as a precaution against cyclone ‘Fani’, in West Bengal’s Howrah
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Photo: IANS
Due to huge rain and thunderstorm arises after Fani cyclone, over 80000 packets of wheat which stored in open area of Sohna Anaj Mandi got damaged, in Gurugram.

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PTI Photo
Tribal women near a stone plaque in Jharkhand’s Khnuti. The villagers, who do not allow entry of outsiders to their area, have decided to boycott the Lok Sabha polls on May 6. Unlike the rest of the country, the villages particularly under “Pathalgadi” are governed by a separate set of rules where Gram Sabhas reign supreme. There are over 100 Pathalgadi villages in Khunti district where the tribes do not recognise any authority and do not owe allegiance to constitution.
Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
The iconic ‘Palais Royale’ building at Worli Naka in Mumbai,In a major development, Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (IHFL) has decided to auction the Palais Royale building to recover dues worth a whopping Rs 971 crore from the owners, the S.Kumar’s fame industrialist Vikas Kasliwal. 

Xinhua/IANS)
Xinhua/IANS)
Representatives are present on the last day of the consultative Loya Jirga in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani once again called upon the Taliban group to give up fighting and join the peace process to end the war in Afghanistan as the consultative Loya Jirga or grand assembly of elders and chieftain concluded here.
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AP/PTI
A charter plane traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway. A Naval Air Station Jacksonville news release says a Boeing 737 arriving from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, crashed into the St. Johns River Friday night. 

AP/PTI
AP/PTI
In Bangkok, Thailand. Saturday began three days of elaborate centuries-old ceremonies for the formal coronation of Vajiralongkorn, who has been on the throne for more than two years following the death of his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in October 2016 after seven decades on the throne. 
AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito, left, waves with Empress Masako, right, to well-wishers from the balcony during his first public appearance with his imperial families at Imperial Palace in Tokyo. 

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