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1 / 22In the top Frames this week Bharatiya Janta Party on Sunday created history in Haryana by securing a clear majority on its own for the first time and finished as the single largest party in a hung house in Maharashtra, leaving former ally and runner up Shiv Sena high and dry.
October 19, 2014: BJP President Amit Shah arrives at party headquarters amidst much fanfare in New Delhi. (Source: Express photo by Oinam Anand)
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2 / 22For the first time, the BJP emerged with a clear mandate in Haryana, winning 47 seats in the 90-member assembly with a 33.2% vote share.The verdict placed BJP in pole position to rule Maharashtra as the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) expressed willingness to offer outside support to its government.
October 19, 2014: A BJP worker carries bouquets for celebrations at party headquarters in New Delhi after party's win in Haryana and Maharashtra. (Source: Express photo by Oinam Anand)
3 / 22The Congress was humiliated in both Haryana and Maharashtra which it had been ruling for two and three consecutive terms respectively.
October 19, 2014: Former CM of Maharashtra, Pritviraj Chavan who won from Karad South constituency in Assembly elections in Karad on Sunday. (Source: Express Photo by Arul Horizon)
4 / 22Officials at the U.S. military's Central Command warned the Islamic State could ultimately capture the town, even after coalition air strikes and air drops of weapons and medical supplies to help Syrian Kurdish fighters fend off the militants in street battles.One U.S. defense official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity, suggested Kurdish forces appeared likely to hold some ground unless the current battleground dynamic changes. That is despite Islamic State efforts to reinforce their fighters there.
October 21,2014: Turkish Kurdish women shout slogans during the funeral of Kurdish fighters killed during clashes against Islamic State in Kobani, at a cemetery in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province.
The European Union urged Turkey on Monday to open its border to allow supplies to get through to residents of the Syrian border town of Kobani that is being besieged by Islamic State insurgents. (Source: Reuters)
5 / 22The Syrian border town of Kobani appears in less danger of falling to the Islamic State, but the threat still remains, U.S. officials said on Thursday, offering a measured view of a key battle against the militant group.
October 22, 2014: Turkish Kurds watch the Syrian town of Kobani from a hill near the Mursitpinar border crossing, on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province. (Source: Reuters)
6 / 22"With the current air strikes that are going on in support of the Kurdish fighters who know the town, the line has kind of stabilized," the official said.
October 22, 2014: A Kurdish refugee woman from the Syrian town of Kobani hugs a child outside her tent in a camp in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province. (Source: Reuters)
7 / 22October 19, 2014: Devendra Gangadhar Fadnavis the current president of Maharashtra state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party entering the BJP office at Nariman Point. (Source: Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
8 / 22October 20, 2014: Pankaja Munde along with Devendra Fadnavis at BJP office on Monday (Source: Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
9 / 22October 20, 2014: Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray at Sena Bhavan for newly elected MLAs meet. (Source: Express photo by Prashant Nadkar)
10 / 22October 19, 2014: Shiv Sena party workers celebrating victory of Sada Sarvankar in Maharashtra Assembly poll at Shiv Sena Bhavan in Dadar on Sunday. (Source: Express photo by Prashant Nadkar)
11 / 22October 19, 2014: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray's son Aditya at a press conference at Matoshree at Bandra residence in Mumbai on Sunday evening, after the election results. (Source: Express Photos By Pradip Das)
12 / 22October 20, 2014: :Smoke and flames from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (Source: AP/PTI)
13 / 22October 21, 2014: Sharad Bhimaji Sonawane meets MNS president Raj Thackeray at his Krishnakunj residence in Shivaji Park, Sonawane is the lone Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) candidate to have won the assembly election. (Source: Express photo by Prashant Nadkar)
14 / 22October 19 2014: Bhupinider Singh Hooda coming out from Haryana Raj Bhawan after resigned as a Chief Minister of Haryana on Sunday. (Source: Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
15 / 22October 20, 2014: Flower market in Ghazipur ahead of Diwali on Monday morning. (Source: Express photo by Oinam Anand)
16 / 22October 17, 2014: A thick blanket of smoke is seen against the setting sun as young ragpickers search for reusable material at a garbage dump in New Delhi. India launched the Air Quality Index on Friday to measure air quality across the nation that is home to some of the most polluted cities in the world. It will measure eight major pollutants that impact respiratory health in cities with populations exceeding 1 million in the next five years and then gradually the rest of the country, Environment Minister Prakash told reporters. The World Health Organization said earlier this year that the Indian capital had the worst air quality in the world, surpassing Beijing, a statement that New Delhi has vehemently disputed. (Source: AP)
17 / 22October 20, 2014: Chinese artist Kong Ning wears her 10-meter long wedding gown creation made of hundreds of face masks outside walks the Beijing Exhibition Center in Beijing, China. Kong created the gown hoping her act will call on more actions to fight the pollution which has shrouded the Chinese capital recently. (Source: AP)
18 / 22October 17, 2014: Muhammed Ariful Islam, 22, a Dhaka painter who was held captive on a ship before being abandoned on a remote island, cries at a government shelter in Takua Pa district of Phang Nga. (Source: Reuters)
19 / 22October 22, 2014: Afghan National Army (ANA) officers take part in a training exercise at the Kabul Military Training Centre (KMTC) in Kabul. (Source: Reuters)
20 / 22October 14, 2014: A pro-democracy protester meditates on an occupied bridge leading to the financial Central district in Hong Kong . Hong Kong police reopened one of the city's main thoroughfares to traffic after clearing barricades erected by democracy protesters who have occupied streets in the heart of the Chinese-ruled city for two weeks. (Source: Reuters)
21 / 22October 22, 2014: African migrants sit atop a border fence, as a Spanish Civil Guard officer in riot gear climbs nearby, during an attempt to cross into Spanish territories, between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla. Around 400 migrants attempted to cross the border into Spain, according to local media. (Source: Reuters)
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