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Two space probes hog the limelight this week with ISRO's Mangalyaan and NASA's MAVEN entering the Martian orbit. India's Mars Orbiter Mission successfully entered the orbit on Wednesday morning, becoming the first nation to do so in its first attempt and the first Asian country to reach the red planet. (Source: PTI)
n Top Frames this week, we capture the jubilant ISRO scientists, a proud Indian PM, more action from the Asian Games and a round-up of best images from around the world.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists and engineers watch Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) on screens after India's Mars orbiter successfully entered at their Spacecraft Control Center in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. (Source: Reuters)
A white tiger mauled to death a man in a New Delhi Zoo on Tuesday, an official and a witness said. (Source: PTI)
Television channels broadcast closed-circuit footage of the frightened boy inside the tiger's enclosure in the Zoo that houses six white tigers, along with lions and panthers. (Source: Express photo by Oinam Anand)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, unveils the logo of "Make in India" initiative in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
Scores of business leaders from India and abroad attended the launch of the initiative where in the Indian Prime Minister called on manufacturers across the globe to come and Make India a manufacturing hub. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
This June 13, 2013 photo provided by the Emirates News Agency, WAM, shows Mariam al-Mansouri, the first Emirati female fighter jet pilot gives the thumbs up as she sits in the cockpit of an aircraft, in United Arab Emirates. (Source: AP)
A Yes campaign supporter in the Scottish referendum stands in George Square in Glasgow, Scotland Friday, Sept. 19, 2014.
A Yes campaign supporter in the Scottish referendum stands in George Square in Glasgow. (Source: Reuters)
From the capital of Edinburgh to the far-flung Shetland Islands, Scots embraced a historic moment - and the rest of the United Kingdom held its breath - after voters turned out in unprecedented numbers for an independence referendum that could end Scotland's 307-year union with England.
Supporters from the "No" Campaign celebrate at the Better Together Campaign headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland. (Source: Reuters)
A boy carries a cot through flood waters at Krishnai village in Goalpara district of Assam. (Source: PTI)
China's Shang Chunsong prepares to compete in the uneven bars event of the women's individual all-around final artistic gymnastics competition at the Namdong Gymnasium Club during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon. (Source: Reuters)
Afghan girls gather to hear a speech by Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in his first public appearance since winning the election runoff in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's new president-elect says he wants Afghan women represented at the highest levels of government, and he pledged to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court. (Source:AP)
An anti-government protestor, showers near the parliament building where he and others are camping, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Anti-government demonstrators led by opposition politicians Imran Khan and Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri have camped out in the capital since mid-August, demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ouster over alleged fraud in last year's election. Sharif told the parliament that protestors have damaged the image of Pakistan in the world and also caused huge economic losses in the country. (Source: AP)
One of the first set of pictures of Mars taken by India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) that was released by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in a social networking site on Thursday. (Source: PTI)
Turkish Kurdish protesters clash with Turkish security forces during a pro-Kurdish protest near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province. (Source: Reuters)
A man removes muddied beddings from a hospital ward which was damaged by flooding in Srinagar. (Source: Reuters)
Students of Gurukul practice Garba ahead of Navratri in Ahmedabad. (Source: Express photo by Javed Raja)
A health worker, right, sprays a man with disinfectant chemicals after he is suspected of dying due to the Ebola virus as people, rear, look on in Monrovia, Liberia. Six months into the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, scientists say they’ve learned more about how the potentially lethal virus behaves and how future outbreaks might be stopped. The first cases of Ebola were reported in Guinea by the World Health Organization on March 23 before spreading to Sierra Leone, Liberia and elsewhere. (Source: AP)
A man crosses flood waters at Krishnai village in Goalpara, Assam. (Source: AP)
Narendra Modi, 64, flew into New York's JFK airport on a special Air India Boeing plane on the first leg of his maiden visit to the US as Prime Minister after a nearly nine-hour flight from Frankfurt where he had an overnight halt. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets people outside his hotel upon his arrival in New York on Friday. (Source: PTI)
