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V. Karthik Venkatesh, V D, Holy Cross School, Salem

 

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AN EYE-CATCHER: The Dasara flower show was inaugurated at Curzon Park in Mysore on Friday. Photo: M.A. Sriram

COLOURFUL EVENT: The caparisoned elephants play an important role during Dasara in Mysore. Photo: M.A. Sriram

FESTIVE SEASON: As Navarathri started on Friday, the "golu" is being set up at the entrance of a shop in Chennai. Photo: V. Ganesan

 

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EXEMPLARY: The IAF's Surya Kiran aerobatic aircraft make a formation during an air display on Air Force Day 2010 at Hindon on Friday. Photo: PTI

 

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Newly-inducted women constables of the Border Security Force tying the rakhi to a male colleague on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan at the Attari-Wagah border, about 35 km from Amritsar, on Tuesday. Photo: PTI

 

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Snapshots from Campus Jive 2010

 

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A view of the books donated at the 'Aviva Great Wall of Education’. Photo: V. Ganesan

 

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(From right) Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kalery and U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station train at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled for October 8. Photo: AP

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A stag and a doe in a wildlife park in Aurach near Kitzbuehel, in the Austrian province of Tyrol. Photo: AP

 

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A schoolgirl greets a member of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) posted in South Mumbai on the day of the Ayodhya verdict. Photo: PTI

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Indonesian students look at paper-made cherry blossoms with messages written by Indonesian and Japanese students, during the commemoration of the first anniversary of the West Sumatra earthquake organized by the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute in Sungai Limau, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo: AP

 

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ALL IS WELL: Australian women hockey team members pose for a photograph at the Commonwealth Games Village in New Delhi. Players from several Commonwealth nations have started occupying the Village. Photo: R.V.Moorthy

 

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ARMY INTERVENTION: Army personnel build a new foot overbridge at the Nehru Stadium after a bridge under construction collapsed last week ahead of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Photo: V.V.Krishnan

 

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BIENVENUE!: A passenger disembarking from the Russian Railways' Moscow-Nice luxury train is greeted by the Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, at Nice station. The first train in the luxury service from Russia to the French Riviera arrived in Nice some 53 hours after its departure from Moscow. Photo: AP

 

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STAR ATTRACTION: Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh with Leonardo di Caprio at an event on climate change in New York. Photo: PTI

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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT: A Super Decathlon minutes before it crashed after flying too low at the air show in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The pilot was critically injured. Photo: AP

 

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INTENSE INCENSE: A visitor prays as she burns joss sticks at the City God Temple in Shanghai during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Photo: AP

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ECOLOGICAL TRAGEDY: A dead Pilot whale lies in the sand at Spirits Bay in the North Island of New Zealand. At least 40 out of 80 whales that stranded themselves on the remote northern New Zealand beach have died, and more whales are joining them on land. Photo: AP

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JOSTLING WITH HYACINTH: Bangladeshi commuters cross the Buriganga River on a floating boat bridge in Dhaka. Photo: AP

 

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SPEED BREAKER: A policeman speaks to a Kashmiri boy during curfew at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. Photo: Nissar Ahmad

 

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U.S. and the South Korean Marines landing crafts sail to shores in a smoke screen during the 60th Incheon Landing Operations Commemoration Ceremony near Incheon, South Korea. Photo: AP