News in pictures: From the President's Colours Presentation to US tornadoes

The big news events on March 4, 2019, presented in pictures.

President Ram Nath Kovind at Sulur Air Force Station during the President's Colours Presentation in Coimbatore. (Photo | U Rakesh Kumar, EPS) 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hands over the key of a house to a beneficiary of Pradhanmantri Awas Yojana during the inauguration of various developmental projects, in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Chief Minister of Gujarat Vijay Rupani is also seen. (Photo | PTI)

Workers throng to have breakfast after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy launches the free food scheme for non-formal sector labourers at Amma canteens across Chennai. (Photo | P Jawahar, EPS)

A Pakistani family waves to their Indian relatives, who are leaving to return to India, after being stranded in Pakistan for a week, at Lahore Railway Station in Pakistan, on March 4, 2019. A Pakistani railways official says a key train service between Pakistan and neighbouring India has been resumed. (Photo | AP)

Indian Air Force chief B S Dhanoa on March 4, 2019, declined to comment on the death toll in India's air strike in Pakistan's Balakot, saying it was for the government to provide details on the number of terrorists killed and the Air Force only sees if a target has been hit or not. (Photo | U Rakesh Kumar, EPS)

A fallen cell tower lies across U. Route 280 highway in Lee County, Alabama in the Smiths Station community after what appeared to be a tornado struck in the area on March 3, 2019. Severe storms destroyed mobile homes, snapped trees and left a trail of destruction amid weather warnings extending into Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. (Photo | AP)

A foreigner stands in the tourist gallery area of the Lingaraj temple on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Foreign nationals are not permitted to enter the temple premises. (Photo | Biswanath Swain, EPS)