New Delhi: Bengal wrapped in election colours as campaigning peaks, a Kashmiri family’s decades-old grief, the start of India’s Census 2027, a deadly shelter fire in Ghaziabad, uncertain futures for Kashmiri MBBS graduates, and a quiet green escape in the heart of Delhi—ThePrint’s photojournalists and reporters capture this week’s telling moments.
The first phase of India’s Census 2027, the “House Listing and Housing Census,” began today, focusing on mapping structures and housing amenities rather than individual population counts. ThePrint photo by Suraj Singh BishtA massive fire in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram, triggered by a cylinder blast, killed around 50 animals, mostly dogs. At the Pari Foundation shelter, 15 of the 65 dogs died despite co-founder Vandana Singh’s efforts to save them. Volunteers are now helping recover and reunite escaped dogs as the shelter clears the devastation. A dog is seen here taking shelter under a tin sheet. | Photo: Manisha Mondal
This Kashmiri woman went to Pakistan to study MBBS in 2016 and returned to India in 2022. Kashmiri students who earned MBBS degrees in Pakistan face invalidation in India and intense security scrutiny. Historically linked to separatist quotas, their qualifications are now unrecognised, leaving hundreds unemployed and their futures uncertain | Mahira Khan, ThePrintDelhi’s Project Otenga is a glass-and-bamboo haven inside leafy Shaheed Park on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg | Photo: Triya Gulati | ThePrintPraniti Shinde, MP Solapur (INC), Prabha Mallikarjun, MP Devanagere (INC) along with other representatives address a press conference on ‘Reject Delimitation, Strengthen Women’s Reservation’ ahead of Special Parliamentary Session at Press Club of India in New Delhi on Thursday. ThePrint photo by Suraj Singh Bisht
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