1. Female Indian civil defence personnel share a
moment before taking part in the rehearsal for
the Republic Day parade in Kolkata January 4,
2015. India will celebrate its annual Republic
Day on January 26. (Photo by Rupak De
Chowdhuri/Reuters)
2. A rickshaw puller wrapped up in a blanket waits for customers on a cold morning at Allahabad, India Monday, December 22, 2014. Cold wave conditions
intensified across northern India as temperatures dipped along with thick blankets of fog cutting out sunlight. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)
3. December 26, 2014 photo, Indian women offer prayers on the Marina Beach at the Bay of Bengal to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Tsunami
in Chennai, India. Crying onlookers took part in beachside memorials and religious services across Asia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the Indian
Ocean tsunami that left more than a quarter million people dead in one of modern history's worst natural disasters. (Photo by Arun Sankar K./AP Photo)
4. Children get down from a water pipeline used as a path on the way to school in Mumbai January 5, 2015. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
5. A roadside vendor holds Christmas ornaments and paraphernalia for sale in Mumbai, India, Saturday, December 20, 2014. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP
Photo)
6. An Indian Border Security Force soldier from camel mount division adjusts his collar at a practice for the upcoming Republic day parade in New Delhi, India,
Wednesday, January 7, 2015. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)
7. An Indian Muslim boy carries a religious flag during a religious procession to mark the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad at old quarters of New Delhi,
India, Sunday, January 4, 2015. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/AP Photo)
8. Visually impaired students of a school for the blind listen to their instructor before the start of a soccer match inside their school in New Delhi January 5,
2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)
9. Indian policemen stand guard as an Indian tribal girl leaves for a relief shelter after her village was attacked by an indigenous separatist group, in Shamukjuli
village in Sonitpur district of Indian eastern state of Assam, Wednesday, December 24, 2014. Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo
10. An Indian border girl displays a mortar shell allegedly fired from the Pakistan side of the border at Bainglad village in Samba sector, about 52 kilometers (32
miles) from Jammu, India, Tuesday, January 6, 2015. Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo
11. A local resident plays with a stray dog outside her house in the morning in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad December 19, 2014. (Photo by Amit
Dave/Reuters)
12. In this December 22, 2014 photo, Indian
passengers warm themselves around a
fire as they wait for their train to arrive
on a cold morning, in Allahabad, India,
Monday. Cold wave conditions
intensified across northern India as
temperatures dipped along with thick
blankets of fog cutting out sunlight.
(Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)
13. Workers level the banks of the Ganges river in preparation for the upcoming Magh Mela festival in the northern Indian city of Allahabad January 4, 2015
(Photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)
14. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters dance to celebrate the news of early election result trends outside their party headquarters in Jammu, India, Tuesday,
December 23, 2014. Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo
15. People boats are rowed across the Buriganga river during the nationwide dawn to dusk strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 29, 2014. The Bangladesh
Nationalist Party (BNP) led 20-party opposition alliance has called for the strike to stress their demands for new elections under a caretaker administration.
Most of shops, business establishments, school and colleges remained closed during the strike. (Photo by Abir Abdullah/EPA)
16. Indian Sikh children participate in a religious procession ahead of the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh in Jammu, India, Monday, January 5, 2015. The
birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru, will be marked on Jan. 7 this year. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
17. A woman decorates the exteriors of her house ahead of the
Christmas celebrations in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad
December 22, 2014. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)
18. A man dressed in a Santa Claus outfit waves at the crowd as he rides with balloons on a horse cart during Christmas celebrations in Mumbai December 23,
2014. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
19. Muslim brides sit as they wait for their weddings to start during a mass marriage ceremony in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad December 25, 2014.
20. An Indian woman wrapped in a shawl travels with others on a bullock cart on a cold day at Jhansi district, in Bundelkhand, India, Monday, December 29, 2014.
Most parts of north India Monday continued to shiver under biting cold with the mercury dipping several notches. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)
21. A Hindu holy man is reflected on a mirror as he prepares a bowl of vermillion powder for devotees near “Sangam”, the confluence of holy rivers of Ganges,
Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, during the annual traditional fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India,
Tuesday, January 6, 2015. Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo
22. A Tibetan woman carries a child on her back, as she walks to attend the Jangchup Lamrim teachings conducted by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai
Lama at the Gaden Jangtse Thoesam Norling Monastery at Mundgod in the southern Indian state of Karnataka December 27, 2014. (Photo by Abhishek N.
Chinnappa/Reuters)
23. Schoolchildren attend a yoga session at a camp in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad January 6, 2015. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)
24. Children sit around a fire to keep themselves warm during the early morning hours along a road in Mumbai January 2, 2015. (Photo by Danish
Siddiqui/Reuters)
25. A plain-clothes policeman (L) escorts two men who were arrested in connection with the alleged abduction and gang-rape of a Japanese tourist, outside a
court in Kolkata January 3, 2015.
26. India's Border Security Force Daredevils team perform as they rehearse for the upcoming Republic Day parade amidst the morning fog, in New Delhi, India,
Wednesday, January 7, 2015. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)
28. A child rides in a remote-operated toy car at the India Gate in New Delhi January 5, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)
29. A man takes a nap on a parked cycle rickshaw along the roadside during early morning in the old quarters old Delhi December 18, 2014. (Photo by Anindito
Mukherjee/Reuters)
30. A man brushes his teeth with a Neem twig in front of his house at a slum area in Kolkata December 18, 2014. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)
31. A vendor gets dressed under a mosquito net at his roadside shop in Mumbai January 5, 2015. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
32. A Kashmiri devotee prays as a head priest displays a holy relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammed at the Hazratbal shrine on Eid-e-Milad, the birth anniversary of
the Prophet, in Srinagar, India, Sunday, January 4, 2015. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)
33. A man warms himself by a bonfire as a puppy looks on a cold and foggy morning in Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura, December 29,
2014. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)
34. Female porters carry a holy woman belonging to the Jain community through a street to collect food from local residents living in nearby areas, during early
morning in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad December 19, 2014. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)
35. A Sadhu or a Hindu holyman arrives to take a holy dip at Sangam during Magh Mela in the northern Indian city of Allahabad January 5, 2015.
36. Passengers crowd atop a train as they travel on a cold winter morning at a railway station in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of New Delhi December 29, 2014.
(Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)
37. A worker prepares his chewing tobacco while standing in front of sacks at a wholesale grocery market on a winter morning in the old quarters of Delhi
December 19, 2014. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
38. Sikh devotees show off their fire blowing skills during a religious procession ahead of the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh in Jammu January 5, 2014.
Guru Gobind Singh was the last and the tenth Guru of the Sikhs. (Photo by Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)
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40. A couple wrapped in quilts wait for their bus at a terminal on a cold winter morning in New Delhi December 23, 2014. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
41. Men bathe at a roadside municipal tap in Kolkata January 5, 2015. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)
42. An Indian Hindu Holy man carries a glass as he walks out of his tent to perform a ritual ahead of the annual month long Hindu religious fair “Magh Mela”, in
Allahabad, India, Sunday, January 4, 2015. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)
43. Volunteers of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) take part in a drill on the last day of their three-day workers' meeting in
the western Indian city of Ahmedabad January 4, 2015. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)
44. Indian soldiers listen to their instructor (not pictured) during the rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a cold winter morning in New Delhi January 6,
2015. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
45. Nihangs or Sikh warriors perform “Gatkha”, a traditional form of martial arts, during a religious procession ahead of the birth anniversary of GuruGobind
Singh in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh January 5, 2015. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)
46. Indian Air Force soldiers rehearse for the Republic Day parade on a cold and foggy winter morning in New Delhi December 30, 2014. India will celebrate its
annual Republic Day on January 26. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
47. A stray dog sits between guns and gloves belonging to Indian Air Force soldiers during a break of a rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a cold and winter
morning in New Delhi December 30, 2014. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
50. A man lights a bidi, a local cigarette hand-rolled with tobacco leaf, along the roadside during early morning in the old quarters old Delhi December 18, 2014.
(Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)
51. Indian Sikhs participate in a religious procession to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru, in New Delhi, India, Sunday,
December 28, 2014. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/AP Photo)
52. Labourers work during the early morning at the construction site of a road in Mumbai January 2, 2015. India's annual infrastructure output growth
accelerated to a five-month high of 6.7 percent in November, driven by higher production of cement and refinery products, government data showed on
Wednesday. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
53. Sikh men perform the service of cleaning the “Sarowar” or the sacred pond of the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines on the occasion of the 349th
birth anniversary of the tenth Guru or master of the Sikhs, Sri Guru Gobind Singh in Amritsar, India, December 28, 2014. Photo by Raminder Pal Singh/EPA
54. A vendor wrapped in a shawl carries flowers for sale at a market place on a cold winter morning in the old quarters of Delhi December 31, 2014. (Photo by
Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
55. An Indian man exercises as fog envelops a park in New Delhi, India, Monday, December 22, 2014. Cold wave conditions intensified across northern India as
temperatures dipped along with thick blankets of fog cutting out sunlight for long hours. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/AP Photo)
