November 16: Delhi and beyond, in pictures

The day’s developments, events and newsmakers

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A wave hits the sea walkway after cyclonic storm ‘Gaja’ made landfall at Rameswaram, in Ramanathapuram district,. Over 80,000 people were evacuated from low-lying areas as severe cyclonic storm ‘Gaja’ crossed Tamil Nadu’s coast between Nagapattinam and nearby Vedaranyam early Friday, bringing heavy rains in coastal regions. 
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A view of a damaged car after cyclone Gaja hits Kodaikanal, The Centre Friday assured the Tamil Nadu government of all assistance to deal with the situation arising out of the cyclonic storm ‘Gaja’, which has so far claimed 11 lives.

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents the ‘Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award for Excellence in Journalism’ to Chairman, The Hindu Publishing Group of Newspapers, N Ram, during the National Press Day celebrations, in New Delhi, 
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PTI Photo
Tourists dressed in traditional attire take a selfie at the annual Pushkar Camel Fair 2018, in Pushkar, The annual five-day livestock fair is one of the largest camel fairs in the world. 

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AASU activists with members of 28 ethnic organisations participate in a torch light procession against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, in Guwahati, 
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Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu visits an underground British-era bunker in which twin 22-tonne cannons was recently unearthed, at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai, 

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Police stand guard after women’s rights activist Trupti Desai (unseen) arrived at the Cochin International Airport to visit the Sabarimala temple, in Kochi2018. Desai was forced to stay inside the Airport as hundreds of protesters blocked her way at the arrival gate of the domestic terminal.
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Film Producer and actor Samu Mitra(R) and eminent folk singer Purnadas Baul, interact with media during ‘24th Kolkata International Film Festival’, in Kolkata, 

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PORT MORESBYA man wearing a traditional costume performs during a cultural show as part of APEC 2018 activities at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea,
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First lady Melania Trump, left, and Tricha Prabhu, center, laugh as they listen to Judah Siegand, right, during a discussion at the Family Online Safety Institute annual conference in Washington.

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Xinhua News Agency/AP/PTI
aerial photo and released on Thursday, the Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland shows Hotel in Songjiang district of Shanghai, east China. The 18-story hotel has been built into the side of a huge hole in the ground left by a former put mine with sixteen of its floors below ground level.
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Nuon Chea, who was the Khmer Rouge’s chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, sits in a court room before a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes Friday by an international tribunal. 

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(Photo: IANS
Visitors at the Krishi Mela 2018 in Bengaluru .

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