Picture of the Day

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Flowers with water drops make for a pretty picture in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Photo: M. Karunakaran

 

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The Milky Way Over the Peak of the Furnace

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''This is one of my best innings ever and I am so happy that it came at the right time for Pakistan,'' said Razzaq

 

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A view of the Guangzhou cricket stadium. The Twenty20 format will be followed at the Asian Games cricket debut in Guangzhou. Photo: Ananth Krishnan

 

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WELCOME INDIA: A Malaysian artiste performs at a cultural programme during the launch of 'Little India', a shopping complex, by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Malaysian counterpart Mohd. Najib Tun Abdul Razak in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AP

 

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A police officer's shadow is seen on a shattered wind screen of a car targeted by unknown gunmen in Karachi, Pakistan. Photo: AP

 

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Plastic toy guns on sale at Navrang agencies, Bunder street, Chennai. Photo: M. Karunakaran

 

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, water fills the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province. The water level at the world's largest hydropower plant reached its maximum capacity on Tuesday, signalling that the decades-old project is generating its maximum amount of power. Photo: AP

 

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IF LOOKS COULD KILL: Indian cricketers S. Sreesanth (left) and Harbhajan Singh during a promotional event in Mumbai. Photo: PTI

 

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Spicules: Jets on the Sun
Credit: K. Reardon (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, INAF) IBIS, DST, NSO
Explanation: Imagine a pipe as wide as a state and as long as the Earth. Now imagine that this pipe is filled with hot gas moving 50,000 kilometers per hour. Further imagine that this pipe is not made of metal but a transparent magnetic field. You are envisioning just one of thousands of young spicules on the active Sun. Pictured above is one of the highest resolution image yet of these enigmatic solar flux tubes. Spicules line the above frame of solar active region 11092 that crossed the Sun last month, but are particularly evident converging on the sunspot on the lower left. Time-sequenced images have recently shown that spicules last about five minutes, starting out as tall tubes of rapidly rising gas but eventually fading as the gas peaks and falls back down to the Sun. What determines the creation and dynamics of spicules remains a topic of active research.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

 

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A police officer's shadow is seen on a shattered wind screen of a car targeted by unknown gunmen in Karachi, Pakistan. Photo: AP

Why not put a beheaded body and call it in "PICTURE OF THE DAY".

IDIOT.

 

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Why not put a beheaded body and call it in "PICTURE OF THE DAY".

IDIOT.

My intension not to show violance but the shattered glass by bullet inspired me

 

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Lt. Col. Satyendra Verma performs first BASE jump from the 235-metre Pitampura TV tower in New Delhi on Friday. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

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In this aerial photo, a giant landslide under a residential street is seen in Schmalkalden, Germany. Photo: AP