18 gold bars worth Rs 4.5 crores were seized from three Singapore nationals at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Shamshabad in Hyderabad, on Friday. <a href="http://bit.ly/1joaEg9">Read story here</a>
Kerala Assembly Speaker G Karthikeyan accepts flowers from Santa Claus, at the Christmas and New Year celebration of Trivandrum Bar Association in Thiruvananthapuram, on Friday as bar association President K P Jayachandran and District and Sessions
Kerala CM Oommen Chandy conferring fellowship instituted by Kerala Accademy of Sciences on Dr A Ajayaghosh, scientist CSIR, NIIST on Friday as other recepiants of fellowships Dr K Radhakrishnan, VN Rajasekhara Pillai looks on.
Ministers Manjulamkuzhi Ali and V K Ebrahim Kunju during the state level inauguration of road construction using shredded plastics in Kochi, on Friday. DC/ Sunoj Ninan Mathew
A group of cancer survivors display flowers and other artifacts made by them at an exhibition at Kozhikode on Friday. The exhibition was organised by 'Punarjani', a collective of cancer survivors. DC/ Venugopal
Noted environmental activist Prof B Sobheendran lays a wreath on the body of Hindu Aikya Vedi activist Anup at Kozhikode Town Hall on Friday. Anup injured in an attack allegedly by CPM activists while taking part in a protest demanding the
President Pranab Mukhjeree unveiling the statue of veteran Congress leader K Karunakaran at Kannakakunu Palace in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. -PTI
Daughter of K Karunakaran Padmaja Venugopal giving a memento to the President of India Pranab Kumar Mukherjee during a memorial function of the former state CM, at Senate Hall in Thiruvananthapuram, on Friday. DC/ Anand Shinde
Governor of Kerala Nikhil Kumar, President of India Pranab Kumar Mukherjee and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy during the memorial function. DC/ Anand Shinde
President Pranab Mukherjee at the Inaugural function of " School of Commerce & Economics" at Loyola College in Chennai on Friday. -PTI
Kids take part in District Level Children Festival organised by Karnataka Balavikasa Academy in association with various other departments in Chikballapur, Karnataka, on Friday. –KPN
A blanket of mist on the main road in Belgaum on Friday. –KPN
ABVP members protest at Anand Rao Circle in Bangalore on Friday against the implementation of the Karnataka Professional Education Institutions Act 2006. -KPN
Police arrest the members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) during a protest at Anand Rao Circle in Bangalore, on Friday against the implementation of Karnataka Professional Education Institutions Act 2006. –KPN
Indus Community School Children with the Kannada actor Murali cuts a 100kg cake at a mall in Bangalore, on Friday. –KPN
Members of Karnataka Janapara Vedike stage a protest at SBM Circle in Bangalore, on Friday demanding to fix the supportive price for Sugarcane. –KPN
Kannada actor Sanjjanaa inaugurates Orissa Grameen Mela organised by Orissa Arts and Crafts at Chitrakala Parishat, in Bangalore on Friday. –KPN
The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), Tejas takes to sky at HAL Airport on Friday. LCA Tejas received Initial Operational Clearance for Induction into Indian Air Force. –KPN <a href="http://bit.ly/1drfqCa">More pics here</a>
CCMB director CH Mohan Rao, welcomes Nobel Laureate Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan to a lecture on Antibiotics and the cell's protein at Osmania University, on Friday. DC/ P.Surendra
Andhra Mahila Sabha student K.S.V. Sindhu (right), who won six medals with her friends during the convocation ceremony of the institute in Osmania University, on Friday. DC/ P.Surendra
Children wave at commuters as they look out from the back window of an auto rickshaw in Hyderabad, on Friday. -AP
Police had a tough time as they put party activists inside a truck during the protest against alleged mistreatment of New York based Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade.
A disabled man also took part in the protest against the alleged mistreatment on Devyani Khobragade, .
TDP activists and police clash during the protest outside US Consulate in Hyderabad, on Friday.
Activists burn en affigy in protest of the alleged ill-treatment meted out to Devyani Khobragade.
TDP activists shout slogans from inside a truck after being detained during a protest against the alleged mistreatment of New York based Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, near the US Consulate in Hyderabad, on Friday.
An angry activist climbs on top of a police vehicle during the protest. Raising slogans against United States, TDP and ABVP activists protested at the Consulate in Begumpet locality.
Women activists are being detained during the protest, near US Consulate in Hyderabad, on Friday.
TDP activists shout slogans against the alleged mistreatment of New York based Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, near the US Consulate in Hyderabad, on Friday.
N. Kiran Kumar Reddy receives an award for 'Best governance' at an even hosted by 'India Today' in New Delhi, on Friday.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, accompanied by an all-party delegation from the State, coming out after submitting a memorandum on Brijesh Kumar Tribunal verdict to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at 7 RCR in New Delhi on Friday. -
Andhra Pradesh CM N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday led an all-party delegation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against notifying the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal II (KWDT II) award and submitted a memorandum in Delhi, on Friday.
Customs officials display 18 bars of gold before the media. The gold was meant to be smuggled to Chennai further, an official said.
Andhra Pradesh and South India in pictures: December 20