October 8: Delhi and beyond, in pictures

The day’s developments, events and newsmakers

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People perform last day of pitrapaksh rituals on the banks of Hooghly river on ’Mahalaya’, in Kolkata.
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PTI
Security personnel stand guard at a polling station during the first phase of elections for urban local bodies, in Budgam district of central Kashmir.

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Xinhua/IANS
People look at giant pumpkins during the Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off Event in Langley, Canada.
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AP/PTI
Vandenberg Air Force Base video provided by SpaceX, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Argentinian satellite blasts off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch site, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles

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AP/PTI
Residents who were injured by an aftershock receive treatment outside the general hospital in Port-de-Paix, Haiti. A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck Haiti on Sunday
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Xinhua/IANS
Sara Netanyahu (C), wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Jerusalem

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Recovery crews remove debris from the scene of a fatal crash, where a limousine crashed into a parked and unoccupied SUV killing 20 people at an intersection a day earlier, in Schoharie, N.Y. 
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AP/PTI
This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a view of Tropical Storm Michael, lower right, churning as it heads toward the Florida Panhandle, at 6:52 p.m. Eastern Time.

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PTI
Indian Air Force’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) flies-past during the 86th Air Force Day Parade 2018 at Air Force Station, Hindon in Ghaziabad.
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PTI
Police personnel use batons to disperse sanitation workers of Municipal Corporation of Delhi during a protest over their various demands at Parliament Street in New Delhi.

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Hava Yehezkel, left mourns next to the body of he daughter Kim during her funeral in in Rosh HaAyin, Israel
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AP/PTI
Wes Phills, of Brooklyn, N.Y., center, walks offstage after winning the overall award and middleweight class in the International Association of Trans Bodybuilders competition in Atlanta

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PTI
Miss India Trans Queen winner Veena Sendre, flanked by 1st runner up Sania Sood and 2nd runner up Namita Ammu during the final of the beauty pageant for the transgenders, in Mumbai
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PTI
Artistes create graffiti dedicated to the rights of sex workers at a community puja pandal, in Kolkata

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PTI
State government employees stage a protest for the old pension scheme, in front of Vidhan Sabha in Lucknow.
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PTI
Congress party activists stage a demonstration against alleged corruption in Rafale deal, in Bhopal.

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IANS
Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh in Washington DC

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