Glimpses from India and around the world that will make you smile and cry.
How Heroes Rescue
IMAGE: Rescue personnel carry an injured person on a stretcher during ongoing search and rescue operations after a devastating cloudburst at Chasoti village in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir. Photograph: ANI Photo
Hunt For Survivors
IMAGE: Indian Army, State Disaster Force, police and local administration carry out a search and rescue operation in flash flood-hit Chasoti in Kishtwar. Photograph: ANI Video Grab
Spirit Of The Tricolour
IMAGE: A man body painted in the Tricolour hoists the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. Photograph: ANI Video Grab
Daughter Remembers Vajpayee
IMAGE: Namita Bhattacharya pays tributes to her father Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his death anniversary at Sadaiv Atal in New Delhi. Photograph: Jitender Gupta/ANI Photo
Tears Amid Tragedy
IMAGE: A mourner reacts during the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks while seeking aid at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters
School Turned Rubble
IMAGE: A Palestinian woman sits at the site of an Israeli strike on a school that was sheltering displaced people in Gaza City. Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters
Escorting Putin Home
IMAGE: US fighter jets escort the Russian presidential aircraft after President Vladimir Putin left Alaska following his meeting with US President Donald John Trump, as seen from a plane porthole during a flight back to Russia. Photograph: Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool/Reuters
Voice Against Trump
IMAGE: A demonstrator holds a banner and an upside-down American flag during a protest against Trump near a military vehicle at Union Station Washington, DC, after Trump's announcement of the federal takeover of the metropolitan police department and the deployment of the national guard to assist in crime prevention in the nation's capital. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters
Humans Ref Humanoids
IMAGE: Referees approach Booster Robotics T1 humanoid robots that clashed during a 5-on-5 soccer group match on a football pitch at the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing. Photograph: Florence Lo/Reuters
King Honours WWII Veterans
IMAGE: Britain's King Charles III speaks with Yavar Abbas of the Sikh Regiment, who fought World War II, at a reception for veterans and their families hosted by the Royal British Legion in Alrewas, Staffordshire. Photograph: Eddie Mulholland/Pool/Reuters
Clearing War Ruins
IMAGE: Workers remove debris in a block of flats damaged by overnight shelling, which local Russian-installed authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, in the course of the Russia-Ukraine military conflict, in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city of Ukraine. Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
Training For Battle
IMAGE: Members of the Ukrainian armed forces train in Ukraine's Kharkiv region. Photograph: Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters
Freedom Takes Flight
IMAGE: Kite maker Jagmohan Kanojia shows his newly made kites for Independence Day with pictures of Indian freedom fighters on them in Amritsar. Photograph: ANI Photo
Tuskers On The Catwalk
IMAGE: Elephants take part in an elephant fashion show on World Elephant Day in Jaipur. Photograph: ANI Photo
Dog Lovers Hit Streets
IMAGE: Dog lovers protest the Supreme Court's order to send all stray dogs in Delhi-NCR to shelters within 8 weeks at Connaught Place in New Delhi, here and below. Photograph: ANI Photo
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Save Elephants
IMAGE: Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a sand sculpture of an elephant in Puri with the message 'Save My Habitat' to raise awareness about elephant conservation on World Elephant Day. Photograph: @sudarsansand X/ANI Photo
Photographs curated by Anant Salvi/Rediff
Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale/Rediff