May 7: Delhi and beyond, in pictures

The day’s developments, events and newsmakers

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NH Photo
NH Photo
AICC General Secretary Smt. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra addressing a public meeting in Ambala, Haryana.
PTI Photo
PTI Photo
Opposition leaders Abhishek Manu Singhvi, N Chandrababu Naidu, Farooq Abdullah, Sanjay Singh and others address the media after Supreme Court hearing, in New Delhi. The Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by 21 Opposition leaders seeking a review of its April 8 order directing the Election Commission to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs to five polling booths per assembly. 

PTI Photo
PTI Photo
DMK Leader MK Stalin during a 2019 by-election campaign for party’s Aravakuruchi assembly candidate Senthil Balaji, in Karur.
Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
Congress’s Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal, Digvijaya Singh performs ‘pooja’ in the presence of Former Minister Computer Baba, at the venue where he will be camping along with thousands of seers to undertake ‘Hat Yog’, in Bhopal.

PTI Photo
PTI Photo
Senior Congress leader Suresh Pachouri and other party leaders display a list of names of debt-ridden farmers after party’s loan waiver scheme, outside the residence of former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, in Bhopal.
Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
People offer prayers on the first day of Ramadan, in Srinagar. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief. 

PTI Photo
PTI Photo
file photo Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi with his wife Rupanjali Gogoi attending the Republic Day ‘At Home’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Gogoi, got a clean chit from the Supreme Court’s In-House Inquiry Committee which “has found no substance” in the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by a former woman employee of the apex court. 
Photo by Vipin
Photo by Vipin
Several activists and a group of lawyers protested against the procedure adopted by the three-judge panel, led by Justice SA Bobde, to deal with the sexual harassment case against CJI Gogoi.  

PTI Photo
PTI Photo
Members of the Free Church gather inside Church premises at Sansad Marg, New Delhi. Members allegedly witnessed Hindu rituals being performed inside the Church compound. 
AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Pope Francis prays in front of a statue of Mother Teresa at her memorial in Skopje, North Macedonia. Francis, who is on a three-day trip to the Balkans, is visiting North Macedonia for the first-ever papal visit to the country. 

AP/PTI
AP/PTI
A Sri Lankan naval soldier stands guard as Catholic devotees pray at the St. Anthony’s church after it was partially opened for the first time since Easter Sunday attacks, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Handlers, known as Mahouts, lead a procession of 10 elephants to kneel outside the Grand Palace in honor of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn following his coronation ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand.

PTI Photo
PTI Photo
Candidates during a physical fitness test for the post of Special Police Officers (SPO), at Gulshan Ground in Jammu.
Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
The decommissioning ceremony of INS Ranjit, a Rajput class destroyer, underway at Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

AP/PTI
AP/PTI
President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Russian military vehicles parked at a square for a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia. The parade will take place at Moscow’s Red Square on May 9 to celebrate 74 years of the victory in WWII. 

AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Duat Mai stands atop a dead whale at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. The Marine Mammal Center plans a necropsy to determine what killed the animal. 
AP/PTI
AP/PTI
Priyanka Chopra attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” exhibition in New York. 

Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
The statue of Lord Parasurama being bathed with milk on the occasion of ‘Akshaya Tritiya’ or ‘Parasurama Jayanti’, in Mathura.
Photo: IANS
Photo: IANS
People throng a jewellery shop on Akshaya Tritiya in Bengaluru.

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