People checking out the Metro Rail coach on display at the industrial exhibition in Nampally, Hyderabad on Saturday -DC/S.Surender Reddy
Noted Carnatic singer Sanjay Subrahmanium performs on the first day of the Swathi Thirunal music festival in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. S.R. Mahadav Sarma accompanies him on violin - DC/Peethambaran Payyeri
Film-serial actor Sadhika greeting veteran film artists at a function organised in connection with the centenary celebrations of Malayalam film industry by Old Film Lovers' Association at Muthalakulam in Kozhikode on Saturday - DC/Venugopal
A two-day old snakelet of a King Cobra was found by labourers at the construction site of the National Games football and cricket stadium at Kariavattom in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.They called up noted snake catcher Vava Suresh, who said that
LuLu Group managing director Yusuffali M.A. interacts with students of 'Kuttikalude Kottaram Green School,' Kayamkulam, after inaugurating Kochi Photo Journalists Forum's news photo exhibition at the LuLu mall in Kochi on Saturday - DC/Sunoj Ninan
Dog lovers with their pets during the 'obedient session' of the dog show organised by Malabar Canine Club at Zamorin's School ground, Kozhikode on Saturday - DC/Venugopal
Kerala CM Oommen Chandy greeting Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer along with health minister V.S. Siva Kumar on the courtyard of Ernakulam Town Hall on Saturday. Chandy came down from the first floor of the hall from a meeting on cancer centre to greet
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the foundation laying ceremony of the TCS learning centre at the Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. Minister for HRD for state Shashi Tharoor, Kerala Governor Nikhil Kumar, Chief minister Oommen Chandy
Police remove Yuvamorcha activists who showed black flag to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when his convoy reached Chakka Junction in Thiruvananthapuram on his way to Technopark on Saturday - DC/Peethambaran Payyeri
Kerala CM Oommen Chandy presents a memento made of paddy to PM. Kerala Minister for education PK Abdurabb and Union Minister for State Shashi Tharoor look on - DC/Peethambaran Payyeri
Minister for education P.K. Abdurabb presents a memento to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the inauguration the total e-literacy programme of PN Panicker Vigyan Vikas Kendra at Kanakakkunnu in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday - DC/Peethambaran
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh unveiling the plaque to mark the beginning of Capital centre, Central University of Kerala at a function at Rajbhavan on Saturday - DC/Peethambaran Payyeri
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being apprised about the model of the Kochi LNG Terminal, in Kochi, Kerala on Saturday. Governor of Kerala Nikhil Kumar, Union Minister for Petroleum
Students of Elamakkara Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, who performed at the inauguration of International Book Festival in Kochi, going through the books after the function - DC/Arunchandra Bose
Members of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) activists staging protest against the UPA Government on price hike of petrol and non-subsidized LPG cylinders in Chennai on Saturday - PTI
Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland plays a shot against Canada's Vasek Pospisil of Canada in the men's singles semifinal match at the ATP Chennai Open 2014 in Chennai. Wawrinka won the match - AP
Canada's Vasek Pospisil plays a shot against Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland in the men's singles semifinal match at the ATP Chennai Open 2014 in Chennai - AP
Air Asia CEO Mittu Chandilya (L) watching the semi-final match between Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France and Marcel Granollers of Spain during the ATP Chennai Open 2014 in Chennai on Saturday - PTI
Marcel Granollers of Spain plays a shot against France's Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the semi final of the singles match at the ATP Chennai Open 2014 in Chennai on Saturday - AP
France's Edouard Roger-Vasselin plays a shot to Marcel Granollers of Spain in their men's singles semifinal match at the ATP Chennai Open 2014 in Chennai on Saturday - AP
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha during inauguration of the Pongal Gift Package Scheme to the card holders ahead of Pongal Festival in Coonoor on Saturday - PTI
Youth Congress members wear the masks of BJP leaders as they protest against the induction of tainted politicians in the BJP, in Bangalore on Saturday - PTI
Japanese women with Indian school children paint on a huge canvas during the artwork - PTI
A Japanese woman paints on a huge canvas during an art work titled 'Bornfree Guernica' based on the theme 'A future without war, poverty and hunger' in Bangalore on Saturday - PTI
Kawasaki Motors India, Managing Director Yuji Horiuchi (L) with Deputy Managing Director Shigeto Nishikawa (R) during the launch of a bikers' lounge in Bangalore on Saturday - PTI
Buffalo race in progress during rural sports event at Karakala, in Karnataka on Saturday - PTI
A homeless man smokes in front of a closed shop on a cold day in Hyderabad on Saturday. Though India is famous for its brutally hot summers, temperatures fall sharply for a few weeks in December and January - AP
Anti-tobacco activist and chairman of Warangal-based Srinivasa Heart Foundation, Dr Srinivas Ramaka, receives the Global Healthcare Summit Award-2014 for community service from Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi at an event held at Ahmedabad.
West Zone police produce the accused people of a murder that occurred on New Year's eve at Mallepally in Hyderabad. The assailants had attacked victim with iron roads over grudge - DC/P.Surendra
Aam Aadmi Party members pose with broom, the electoral symbol of the party, during the inauguration of the party office at Moghalpura in Old City of Hyderabad on Saturday. Till the day, 35,000 people have been enrolled as AAP members in Hyderabad,
Botsa Satyanaraya shows a hammer that can be used to break the emergency windows in the newly launched Garuda Plus bus by the APSRTC on Saturday. J. Purnachandra Rao, Vice-Chairman & MD of APSRTC is also seen - DC/P. Surendra
Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana views a video as he addresses a press meet at Bus Bhavan in Hyderabad on the new safety features introduced in APSRTC luxury buses on Saturday - DC/P.Surendra
Protesters burn an effigy during their demonstration - DC/S. Surender Reddy
BJP Mahila Morcha activists staging protest against the UPA Government on price hike of LPG cylinders, in Hyderabad on Saturday - PTI
OUJAC students weer arrested in Hyderabad for protesting against the Seemandhra legislators, who were not allowing a discussion on the Telangana Bill in the Assembly, on Saturday.
Police detaining ABVP students while they were protesting during Andhra Pradesh Assembly session demanding introduction of Telangana Bill, in Hyderabad on Saturday - PTI
Congress MP Madhu Goud Yaskhi hugs D. Sridhar Babbu, who resigned from the AP Cabinet recently, in Hyderabad on Saturday.
C.V.R. Rajendran, CMD of Andhra Bank welcoming AP Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy at the 182nd State level Bankers' committee meeting at Jubilee Hall in Hyderabad on Saturday - DC/P.Surendra
School children look at a statue of former CM late Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, which was burnt by unidentified persons at night near the Ramnagar Bridge in Hyderabad on Saturday - DC/Deepak Deshpande
YSR Congress leader Y.S. Vijayamma addresses the media along with other leaders in the AP Assembly premises on Saturday.
TRS MLA K. T. Rama Rao shows on his mobile phone a newspaper cutting as proof that former CM late Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy supported Telangana statehood, in contradiction with YSR Congress' current stand on the issue, in the Assembly premises on
TRS MLAs carried placards supporting Telangana to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Saturday.
MLCs staging a protest demanding the introduction of debate over Telangana Bill in the Assembly, in Hyderabad on Saturday - PTI
Para-military jawans and policemen stand guard in front of the AP Assembly in Hyderabad on Saturday.
A foreigner, who was going to visit the AP State Archaeological Museum, was not allowed entry by the police on Saturday as the Andhra Pradesh Assembly session was on.
School officials are seen in the picture here. The management clarified that the students were only barred from writing their exam. - DC/Deepak Deshpande
Rupa Yadav, the kids’ mother, talks to the children - DC/Deepak Deshpande
Three students of Gowtham Model School, Himayathnagar, were not allowed to take their exams on Friday and were made to sit in a separate room for failing to pay the school fee. However, the students’ parents alleged that the children were locked-up
The venue witnessed huge rush of people, who wanted to have a feel of the Metro Rail coach - DC/S. Surender Reddy
People having a look at the display during the exhibition - DC/S.Surender Reddy
Many clicked pictures inside the coach - DC/S.Surender Reddy
A model Hyderabad Metro Rail coach is seen at the exhibition on Saturday - DC/S. Surender Reddy
S.K.Joshi, Principal Secretary of Muncipal Administration inaugurated the Hyderabad Metro Rail Stall at the Exhibition Grounds on Saturday. Hyderabad Metro Rail MD N.V.S.Reddy, L&T MD V B Gadgil and others are also seen - DC/S. Surender Reddy
Andhra Pradesh and South India in pictures: January 4