Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rupa Ganguly leads a protest march near West Bengal chief minister Mamata Baerjee's residence in Kolkata against the recent attack on Union Minister and party leader Babul Suprio. Photograph: PTI Photo
Congress workers torch Rita Bahuguna Joshi's poster in Lucknow after she left the party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sprinkles mustard seeds as farming resumes in Singur at the demolished Nano car plant site after a decade. Photograph: Ashok Bhaumik/PTI Photo
A girl shows a mortar shell fired from across the Line of Control by Pakistan in village Panjgrain, Rajouri district of Jammu on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supporters conduct special prayers for speedy recovery of party supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in front of Apollo hospital in Chennai on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo
A woman with her daughter collecting water Chestnuts from the polluted part of Dal Lake in Srinagar on Thursday. Photograph: S Irfan/PTI Photo
Members of Jamiat Ulama -E- Maharashtra protest against Uniform Civil Code in Mumbai on Thursday. Photograph: Shashank Parade/PTI Photo
Fire fighters try to douse the fire that broke down at a godown containing crackers in Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo
Punjab Police Director General of Police Suresh Arora inspects intoxicants in Amritsar on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates the MMTC Festival of Gold in New Delhi on Thursday. Photograph: Atul Yadav/PTI Photo
Army jawans and Jammu Kashmir Police during a search operation after dozens of rusted grenades and bullets were recovered during excavation in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo