A girl carries a child on a cold morning in Hyderabad on Friday. Though India is famous for its brutally hot summers, temperatures fall sharply for a few weeks in December and January - AP
Swedish theatre group 'Sagohuset' performing a play titled 'MAX' for children at Don Bosco Snehabhavan at Palluruthy, Kochi on Friday - DC/Arunchandra Bose
A traffic police official conducting an awareness programme to two-wheeler riders at Kozhikode Beach on Friday - DC/Venugopal
Children performing welcome dance at the meet - DC/Arunchandra Bose
Bishop Thomas Chakyath, Archbishop Joseph Chennoth and Cardinal Mar George Alanchery at a Catholic missionary meet organised by archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly in Kochi on Friday - DC/Arunchandra Bose
Nuns smiling during the Catholic missionary meet organised by the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese in Kochi on Friday - DC/Arunchandra Bose
All breeds international judge and groomer Gerardo Paolucci from Argentina trimming the hair of Beagal breed as part of the grooming session on Friday prior to the dog show that will held on January 5 at Zamorins School ground in Kozhikode - DC/
Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma (centre) along with priests arrive at Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple to take part in rituals as part 'Thirumuti Kalasa Pooja' on Friday. Moolam Thirunal has been appointed as the new head of the Travancore Royal Family - DC/
Ramesh Chennithala, who was recently inducted into the Kerala Cabinet as Home Minister, hugs Finance Minister K.M. Mani in the Assembly on Friday - DC/A.V. Muzafar
LDF members protested against price rise in the Assembly carrying banners during the address of Governor Nikhil Kumar - DC/A.V. Muzafar
Governor Nikhil Kumar arrives to address the Kerala Legislative Assembly in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. Speaker G. Karthikeyan is also seen - DC/A.V. Muzafar
Home minister Ramesh Chennithala called up on Opposition leader V.S. Achuthanadan at the latter's official residence in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday - DC/Peethambaran Payyeri
French tourists lending hands to the One India Kite team at Kozhikode beach on Friday, before leaving for Ahmadabad International Kite festival that will be held from January 8 to 14 - DC/Venugopal
Police use water cannons against agitating SFI workers who were marching for various demands in Kozhikode, Kerala on Friday - PTI
SFI activists participating in an agitation against conferring autonomous status to fifteen colleges in Kerala, beating up a policeman at Mananchira in Kozhikode on Friday - DC/Venugopal
Seen in the photograph are members of the Kozhikode sub-district that collected maximum points in Higher Secondary school category in the revenue district school festival that ended on Friday - DC/Venugopal
Students of the Silver Hills Higher Secondary School which bagged the maximum points in the Revenue District School Youth Festival - DC/Venugopal
Police and security officers carrying out a rehearsal run through Kochi roads on Friday ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh - DC/Arunchandra Bose
All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) activists staging protest against the UPA government on price hike of non-subsidized LPG cylinders, in front of Indian Oil Bhavan in Chennai on Friday - PTI
Edouard Roger-Vasselin of French celebrating after beating Israel’s Dudi Sela during the quarter final of men’s singles of ATP Chennai Open 2014 in Chennai on Friday. Edouard Roger-Vasselin won the match (7-5, 6-7, 0-6) - PTI
Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland celebrating after beating Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia during a quarter final of men’s singles of ATP Chennai Open 2014 in Chennai on Friday. Wawrinka won the match (6-2, 6-1) - PTI
Air Warrior drill team of Indian Air Force in action during the combined Passing Out Parade organized at the Air Force Station in Chennai on Friday - PTI
Members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike Auto Ghataka, Bangalore Urban district, take out a rally from Banappa Park to Freedom Park in Bangalore on Friday protesting against the latest price hike in auto LPG price - KPN
Another picture from the event - KPN
Exhibits displayed at Khadhi Darshan - 2-14, a zonal level Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) and exhibition organised by Khadi and Village Industries Commission at MSME-D1 grounds Rajajinagar in Bangalore on Friday - KPN
A woman, who got an artificial hand at the 17th Mega Limb Camp organised by Rotary Bangalore Peenya at Ganesh Bagh on Infantry Road in Bangalore on Friday, uses a cup with her artificial hand - KPN
After the recent ministry expansion, Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore is buzzling with more activities. The number of vehicles parked in the premises on Friday is a testimony to that - KPN
Namma Metro work is in progress near Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore on Friday - KPN
Bangalore city Police Commissioner Raghavendra H. Auradkar visits a property parade organised by Bangalore Urban North Division Police at HMT Ground, RT Nagar in Bangalore on Friday. Other top police officers are also seen - KPN
Synchronised PT display in 'Lotus formation' by trainees on the occasion of passing out parade at Air Force station in Jalahalli, Bangalore on Friday - KPN
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah watching the horse race for Chief Minister's Trophy at Bangalore Turf Club on Friday - KPN
Tibetan Buddhist nuns and monks with religious cloth tied to their foreheads pray as they listen to their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama deliver the Jangchup Lamrim teachings at the Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka - AP
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama laughs as he delivers the Jangchup Lamrim teachings at the Sera Monastery, Bylakuppe, 135 miles west of Bangalore, in Karnataka on Friday. The ten-day teachings ended Friday - AP
B.S. Yeddyurappa handing over the letter of formal merger of KJP with BJP, in Bangalore on Friday - PTI
B.S. Yeddyurappa and Shobha Karandlaje pose for photographs with supporters as they arrive at Vidhana Soudha to hand over a letter of formal merger of KJP with BJP, in Bangalore on Friday - PTI
Tollywood actor Shivaji attended a press meet in Hyderabad on Friday supporting the appeal of victims of relatives of the Mahbubnagar Volvo bus mishap for compensation from the government - DC/P.Surendra
Former students catching up during the event - DC/P. Surendra
Alumni members of BITS institutes greets each other in Hyderabad on Friday during the meet - DC/P.Surendra
Alumni of BITS institutes cheers for Ramanaiah Venkata Sonti, a 1950-batch student of BITS, at the BITSAA Global Meet in Hyderabad on Friday - DC/P.Surendra
Former students of the institute came along with their family for the meet - DC/P. Surendra
Alumni of all BITS institutes all over the world gathered in Hyderabad on Friday for the global meet. Themed on celebrating innovation, achievement and leadership, BGM 2014 will witness a congregation of BITSians from across the globe to bring alive
B.N. Jain, Vice-chancellor of BITS Pilani, interacts with Ramanaiah Venkata Sonti, a 1950-batch student of BITS at the BITSAA Global meet in Hyderabad on Friday. The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, a premier independent
Smriti Irani attends the FLO event in Hyderabad - DC/Pavan Kumar
Smriti Irani, national Vice-President BJP
Union Minister for Commerce and industry Anand Sharma and US ambassador to India Nancy Powell inaugurating the Jaldhara scheme at Janwada of Shankerpally in Ranga Reddy District near Hyderabad on Friday - PTI
MLAs Akbaruddin Owaisi, G. Venkat Reddy and JC Diwakar Reddy speak to each other at the AP Assembly premises on Friday - DC/Gandhi
D. Sridhar Babu with his supporters at his residence - DC/Gandhi <a href="url">For more pictures, click here</a>
D. Sridhar Babu, who resigned from the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Thursday, shares a lighter moment with other leaders while addressing the media at the Ministers' Quarters in Hyderabad on Friday. The Congress leader said he decided to resign from
TDP legislators came to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly in Hyderabad wearing black ribbon in protest against the Congress government over Telangana on Friday.
Pro-Telangana activists shout slogans as they are being detained - AP
Telangana student activists, demanding for a separate Telangana state, shout slogans from a police vehicle against Seemandhra MPs who went on hunger strike in protest against the proposed bifurcation of the state of Andhra Pradesh, after being
Police detain Osmania University students, who came to Indira Park to protest 'Sankalpa Deeksha' by Congress leaders from Seemandhra against the bifurcation of the state, in Hyderabad on Friday - PTI
Seemandhra Congress leaders Lagadapati Rajagopal, K.V.P Ramachandra Rao and other leaders participate in a Sankalp Deeksha at Indira Park to protest against the division of the state - DC/P.Surendra
Minister T.G. Venkatesh and Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal dance with lambadas at Indira Park - DC/P.Surendra
Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal dances with lambadas at Indira Park during the Sankalp Deeksha on Friday - DC/P.Surendra
Actor Asmita Sood at the launch of a jewellery designer exhibition in Hyderabad on Friday - PTI
Andhra Pradesh and South India in pictures: January 3