October 18: Delhi and beyond, in pictures

The day’s developments, events and newsmakers

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Pramod Pushkarna

Photo by Vipin
Photo by Vipin
Once again the national capital is soon to become a gas chamber, the air quality deteriorates to ‘very poor’ category for the first time in the season on Thursday 
Photo by Pramod Pushkarna
Photo by Pramod Pushkarna
Once again the national capital is soon to become a gas chamber, the air quality deteriorates to ‘very poor’ category for the first time in the season on Thursday .

Photo by Vipin
Photo by Vipin
Ashish Pandey, accused of brandishing gun at guests outside a hotel, being brought out of the Patiala House Courts in New Delhi. He has been sent to one-day police remand.
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat and Internationally-acclaimed child rights activist and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi during the annual Vijayadashami celebration of the RSS at its Reshimbagh headquarters in Maharashtra’s Nagpur.

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Workers busy installing an effigy of Ravana on the eve of Dussehra in Patna.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. European Union leaders are converging on Brussels for what had been billed as a “moment of truth” Brexit summit but which now holds little promise for a breakthrough.

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Actors wearing masks depicting United States President Donald Trump, left, and Peru’s former president Alan Garcia, perform during protest against corruption in Lima, Peru. The sign on the briefcase held by the Garcia character reads in Spanish “Money comes by itself.” 
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Marq Vincent Perez is escorted from the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building in Victoria, Texas, after being sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for intentionally setting a fire that destroyed a mosque at the Islamic Center of Victoria in January 2017. 

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Turkish forensic officers leave the Saudi consulate after they conducted a new search over the disappearance and alleged slaying of writer Jamal Khashoggi, in Istanbul. Pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak on Wednesday said it had obtained audio recordings of the alleged killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, drives the Aurus, or Cortege, limousine as Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, sits in the passenger seat at the Sochi Autodrom circuit in Sochi, Russia.

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Hindu devotees stand in a queue to offer prayers on the ninth day of Dashain festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by Hindu goddess Durga, marking the victory of good over evil. Animals are sacrificed at Hindu temples during this festival. 
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Devotees arrive to pay obeisance at Lord Ayyappa Temple in Sabarimala.

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A view of Dubai as seen from the sky deck of world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, United Arab Emirates.
Photo by Pramod Pushkarna
Photo by Pramod Pushkarna
Ravana effigy at janpath ashoka road round about put up by resident in New Delhi

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