Best Pictures Of The Day

From vaccination to curfew in major Indian cities due to the surge in coronavirus cases, here the best pictures from across the country today.

Kashmiri Muslims devotees react as a priest displays a holy relic during the last Friday of Miraj-Ul-Alam (ascension to heaven) celebrations at Kashmir's main Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar on March 19, 2021. (AFP)

In this picture taken on March 18, 2021 Commuters make their way along a deserted street after a curfew was imposed as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Amritsar after Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh announced night curfew in the state's nine districts worst affected by Covid-19 coronavirus. (AFP)
A farmer poses for pictures as he stands on a paddy field in Midnapore district, some 130 km from Kolkata on March 18, 2021. (AFP)
Delhi civil defence team make announcements to wear mask and to keep social distancing as precautions against the COVID-19 coronavirus near India Gate in New Delhi on March 19, 2021 as coronavirus cases continue to increase across India. (AFP)

A Delhi civil defence official holds a megafone before making announcements for wearing mask and keeping social distancing as a precautions against the COVID-19 coronavirus near India Gate in New Delhi on March 19, 2021 as coronavirus cases continue to increase across India. (AFP)