A farmer waters a spinach field at Punchakkari in Thiruvananthapuram. (Photo | Vincent Pulickal, EPS) 
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The week in pics: Indo-Maldives cycling expedition and more

Here is a selection of some of the best pictures clicked by New Indian Express photographers.

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Asian open-billed storks at a lake in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. (Photo | R Anandhakrishnan, EPS)
A shop in Broadway, Chennai filled with election campaign materials. (Photo | Ashwin Prasath, EPS)
A bull tamer in action during a jallikattu event organised at Sakkudi near Madurai, Tamil Nadu.(Photo | K K Sundar, EPS)
A visual of a sunrise at Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru. (Photo | Pandarinath B, EPS)
Cyclists from the Indian and the Maldivian armies captured during the flagging off ceremony of the joint Indo-Maldives cycling expedition in New Delhi. (Photo | Naveen Kumar, EPS)
Youngsters take a selfie at Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru. (Photo | Nagaraj Gadekal, EPS)
A bullock cart race in motion at Gokul village in Hubballi, Karnataka. (Photo | D Hemanth, EPS)
Students of St Vincent Colony Girls in Kozhikode look tensed on the first day of their SSLC examinations which began on 13 March. (Photo | Manu R Mavelil, EPS)
As the setting sun lends an orange hue to the horizon, an oarsman is seen rowing towards the shore in Vavvamoola, Thiruvananthapuram. (Photo | Vincent Pulickal, EPS)

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