2018-01-18 Photo gallery

Tableaux artists rehearse for the upcoming Republic Day parade at Rajpath in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI Photo

Cranes lift a Boeing 737-800 of Turkey's Pegasus Airlines in Trabzon, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. Turkish authorities lifted the passenger plane that skidded off a runway in northern Turkey and stopped on the side of a slope meters away from the...

Artists paint an idol of Goddess Saraswati at a workshop in Amritsar on Thursday, ahead of the upcoming Basant Panchmi festival. PTI Photo

'Boyevaya Machine Pekhoty' tanks seen at Vijay Chowk during the Republic Day parade rehearsal at Rajpath in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI Photo

A contingent of Territorial Army wait during the Republic Day parade rehearsal at Rajpath in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI Photo 

A villager displays a mortar shell allegedly fired on a residential area from the Pakistan side at the India-Pakistan international border at Pindi Camp in Arnia Sector about 40km from Jammu on Thursday. PTI Photo 

 Pope Francis holds a cross that reads in Spanish

A woman dries red chillies at a field in a village near Jodhpur on Thursday. PTI Photo

Actor Sunny Leone gives her measurement for her wax statue to be displayed at Madame Tussauds Delhi, in Mumbai on Thursday. PTI Photo

Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar and actor Rekha pose for a picture during the launch of photographer Dabboo Ratnani’s 2018 Calendar in Mumbai on Wednesday. PTI Photo