Aadi Perukku festival, Mnangagwa electoral win, and other news in picture

MP complains of uneasiness during session, given treatment

Trinamool member Idris Ali was seen taken in ambulance after he complained uneasiness. He returned to the House after getting medical support.

Lok Sabha witnessed a brief adjournment for 10 minutes due to protests by Trinamool members.

Even as the House reconvened, sloganeering continues. Speaker completes Question Hour proceedings amind sloganeering.

Well-wishers visit Karunanidhi

S. Sankaran, a retired ICF employee, has come to gift a walking stick he made to M. Karunanidhi   | Photo Credit: G. Krishnaswami

 

Mr. Karunanidhi, who was admitted to the hospital on last Friday night, remains stable and was put through a transient step towards improving his lung function, the sources at the hospital said.

While rumours of him sitting on a chair circulated on social media all day, sources said it was part of a medical procedure. Well-wishes continue to throng to the Kauvery hospital to wish the DMK leader a speedy recovery.

It's celebration time in Cauvery delta

On the eve of Adi Peruku Festival, devotees in large numbers assemble at Kooduthurai in Bhavani to take bath in River Cauvery in Erode District on Friday.    | Photo Credit: M. Govarthan

 

With the Cauvery in full flow and water flowing in almost all major water courses across the delta districts after several years, the Aadi Perukku festival is expected to be celebrated with gaiety on Friday.

The festival, which falls on the 18th day of Tamil month Aadi, will witness thousands of people, especially newly weds, taking holy dips in the Cauvery and perform special pujas on its banks.

The festival is a celebration of the flow of water as farmers go in for cultivation during the ‘Aadi pattam.’ Given the copious flow in Cauvery, the festival is expected to be celebrated on a grand manner this year.

Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa wins first post-Mugabe election

ZANU-PF supporters celebrate the victory of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the conference center where the results were announced in Harare, Zimbabwe, Friday.   | Photo Credit: AP

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former spy chief installed after Robert Mugabe's removal in a coup in November, was elected on Thursday after a poll marred by the deaths of six people in an army crackdown on opposition protests.

After two days of claims and counterclaims, the 75-year-old Mnangagwa secured a comfortable victory, polling 2.46 million votes against 2.15 million for 40-year-old opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.

ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meet

From left to right, Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Vijay Kumar Singh, Vietnam's Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Thailand's Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai pose for a photo ahead of the ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on the sidelines of the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Singapore, Friday.  

 

The 51st session of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers meeting is currently underway in Singapore.

Singapore’s prime minister said today he hoped to complete by the end of the year a massive China-backed regional trade pact that has taken centre stage as Washington embarks on a unilateral, protectionist agenda. In his comments, which came at the start of a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Singapore, Lee also warned about escalating global trade tensions.

(With inputs from agencies)