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Updated: December 18, 2014, 12:00 AM
Inside India: December 18, 2014
An Indian woman carries her son to school wrapped in a shawl on a cold foggy morning in New Delhi, India. Prakash Singh / AFP
Indian Sikh devotees offer prayers at the Golden Temple on a foggy morning in Amritsar, India. Narinder Nanu / AFP
Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party hold up masks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election campaign rally in Kathua, India. Channi Anand / AP Photo
An Indian local walks with his yak on a snow-covered road during the season’s first snowfall at Kufri, India. AFP
An Indian man shows the eye of a dead elephant at a field in Lokhisapori area, Sonitpur district of Assam state, India. EPA
Kashmiri people wait in queues outside a polling station to cast their votes during the fourth phase of the state assembly election in Srinagar, India. Danish Ismail / Reuters
A cinema goer watches Bollywood movie "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" (The Big Hearted Will Take the Bride), starring actor Shah Rukh Khan, inside the Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai, India. Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
Indian Space Research Organisation’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mark-III) rocket lifts off carrying CARE (Crew Module Atmospheeric Re-entry Experiment) from the east coast island of Sriharikota, India. Arun Sankar K / AP Photo
Indian Sikh devotees clean the holy sarover (water tank) during Karsewa, where they offer to clean the area for free, at the Sikh Shrine Gurdwara Bibeksar in Amritsar, India. Narinder Nanu / AFP
Indian schoolchildren prepare lit candles ahead of a vigil in Jalandhar, India as they pay tribute to the 132 slain Pakistani schoolchildren and nine staff. Taliban insurgents stormed an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar and systematically went from room to room shooting children during an eight-hour killing spree. Shammi Mehra / AFP