Members of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party protest in front of the Telangana memorial as the Winter Session of Andhra Pradesh Assembly begins, in Hyderabad on Thursday. -PTI
A World Bank delegation held discussions with Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, at the Secretariat in Hyderabad, on Thursday.
MIM legislators led by party Floor Leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, arrives for Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Thursday.
Para Military jawans on guard in front of the AP Assembly on the first day of Winter Session, in Hyderabad, on Thursday.
Police force and BSF personnel standing guard outside the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly on the first day of its Winter Session. The assembly paid tributes to former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, who died last week.
BJP MLAs led by party's state president Kishan Reddy pays tribute to Telangana martyrs at the Gun Park memorial, Hyderabad on Thursday.
Artists of a Russian dance troupe Raduga perform at AKG Hall at an event hosted by Russian cultural center in Thiruvananthapuram, on Thursday. DC/ Anand Shinde
Models wearing costumes made from recycled plastic by designer Ajikumar Sudhakar, takes part in a street fashion show on Shanmukham Road in Marine Drive, Kochi on Thursday. -DC/Sunoj Ninan Mathew
Police block rally participants in front of Union Defense Minister A K Antony's house in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. The agitators demanded resignation of 140 MLAs for delaying the release of compensation to victims of Plachimada (Coca-cola
Malayalam actor Gouthami Nair on the 7th day of the International Film Festival of Kerala at Kairali Theatre in Thiruvananthapuram, on Thursday. -DC/A.V. Muzafar
Korean Film maker Kim Ki Duk and Artistic Director IFFK Beena Paul at Kairali Theatre in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. -DC/A.V. Muzafar
Korean Film maker Kim Ki Duk is mobbed, as he arrives at the 18th IFFK in Thiruvananthapuram, on Thursday. DC/A.V. Muzafar
Actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan during an inaugural event of a shop in Kochi, on Thursday. -PTI
Former Indian cricketer S. Sreesanth and Bhuvneshwari Kumari get married in Rajasthani style at a hotel in Kochi on Thursday. The couple had tied the knot earlier today in traditional Kerala method, at Guruvayur Temple. DC/ Vinod Karimatt
Former cricketer S Sreesanth exchanges wedding vows with Bhuwneswari Kumari, hailing from a royal family in Rajasthan, at Guruvayur Temple, on Thursday. -PTI
A housewife staying near Cliff House, engages in a heated argument with LDF leaders over the hardships being faced by the neighbourhood due to the party's siege at Kerala CM's official residence, in Thiruvananthapuram, on Thursday. -DC/ Anand Shinde
Institute of Directors, UK Director General Simon Walker signing a Memorandum of understanding with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs Director General and CEO, Dr Bhaskar Chatterjee in the presence of Union Corporate Affairs Minister (
Shobana and team perform at the inaugural event.
Actor-dancer Shobana performs at the inauguration of 11th Chennai International Film Festival, in Chennai on Thursday.
Aamir Khan and Kamal Haasan share a lighter moment at the event.
Aamir Khan, Kamal Hassan with young performers of the inaugural ceremony. -PTI
Actors Lakshmi, Kamal Haasan, Aamir Khan, and other dignitaries at the inauguration of 11th Chennai International Film Festival, in Chennai, on Thursday. -PTI
Chaduranga Kantaraj Urs, late Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar’s nephew, performs last rituals of the Mysore king at River Cauvery Pachima Vahini, in Srinranaga Patna on Thursday.-KPN
Two wild elephants were found wandering on the outskirts of KR Nagar in Mysore on Thursday. –KPN
Exhibits attract people during a cake show created by C Ramachandra, former director of Nilgiris, at St. Josephs Indian High School in Bangalore, on Thursday. –KPN
A boy gets his face painted by a volunteer during Kids Fest organised by YMCA in Bangalore, on Thursday. –KPN
Members of Karnataka State Sivaji Ganesan Fans Association stage a protest at Town Hall in Bangalore on Thursday against removal of a statue of the actor on Chennai Marina Beach following a court order in Tamil Nadu. –KPN
Police officers wait at a sugar factory as farmers protest for transporting sugarcane to other districts considering the factories low crushing capacity, in Hospet, Karnataka on Thursday. -KPN
Sugarcane growers stage a dharna in front of Taluk Office at Hospet in Bellary district on Thursday against ISR Sugar Factory demanding permission to transport their crop to other factories in neighboring districts. Farmers claim the factory has low
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at an art exhibition at Chitrakala Parishat in Bangalore on Thursday -KPN
Digvijaya Singh holding talks with AP CM N. Kiran Kumar Reddy in Hyderabad on Thursday. Singh began a two-day visit to hold consultations with leaders from both sides in the backdrop of continuing Opposition against division of Andhra Pradesh.
Senior BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya along with other BJP leaders holding a protest demanding release of salaries for outsourced employees of Medical & Health departments in Hyderabad, on Thursday. -PTI
Seemandhra Congress Sake Sailajanath shakes hand with TRS MLA and KCR's son K T Rama Rao in the Assembly premises, on Thursday.
Seiner Congress Leader J C Diwakar Reddy arrives at the Assembly, on Thursday.
Andhra Pradesh and South India in pictures: December 12