Elections, exams and agitations, all amidst COVID fight: Here are the best pictures of the week
Here are some of the best pictures of the week capturing the various moods of people from different parts of the country taken by The New Indian Express photojournalists.
Blood trickles down the face of an oracle after she cut her head with a sword as a sacrificial offering at Sree Kurumba Bhagavathy Temple in Kodungallur, as part of the Bharani festival. (Photo | A Sanesh, EPS)
Delhi Pradesh Mahila Congress members take part in a protest against Uttarakhand CM remarks over ripped jeans. (Photo | Parveen negi, EPS)
Members of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Marshals check for people not wearing face mask in the wake of COVID-19 infection in Bangalore. (Photo | Shriram BN, EPS)
A group of boys enjoy a dip in the river to beat the summer heat at Perinjerikadavu in Kozhikode. (Photo | T P Sooraj, EPS)
Khushboo Sundar, the BJP candidate for Thousand Lights assembly constituency in Chennai, takes selfie with sanitary workers after filing nomination papers. (Photo | P Jawahar, EPS)
A police officer taking care of a baby while her mother casting vote for MLC elections in Hyderabad. (Photo | Vinay Madapu, EPS)
A health worker collects samples from a woman at Koyambedu Flower Market in Chennai. (Photo | R Satish Babu, EPS)
Tourists learning surfing, as surfing activities have resumed at Papanasam beach in Varkala, with the influx of domestic tourists. (Photo | B P Deepu, EPS)
Magician Gaddapati Ramakrishna, who is on a nationalwide Bharat Sandesh Yatra, rides a bike blindfolded at Charminar. He aims at creating awareness on national integrity, environment conservation and Covid. (Photo | Vinay Madapu, EPS)
A scooter which met with an accident near the national highway at Palarivattom, in Kochi. Though the rider has escaped with minor injuries, the stretch has become a regular spot of accidents these days. (Photo | Albin Mathew, EPS)
Primary contacts of a Covid positive fellow student writing exam wearing PPE kits in Bengaluru. (Photo | Vinod Kumar T, EPS)
YSRC activists celebrate their landslide victory in municipal elections at the party central office in Tedapalli. (Photo | Prasant Madugula, EPS)
