Senior students welcome freshers with a rose on the first day of the DU academic session at Kirori Mal College in North Campus on Thursday. Heavy police presence prevented ragging.

Union minister for health and family welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad and Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit during the launch of mass screening camps for diabetes and hypertension in slums in New Delhi on T

Renowned dancer Birju Maharaj and ICCR president Karan Singh during the programme “Remembering Gurudev Tagore” in New Delhi on Tuesday. PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee

A motorcyclist negotiates the waterlogged R.K. Ashram Marg in New Delhi. PHOTOS: Biplab Banerjee

Activists stage a protest outside the health ministry in New Delhi on Monday demanding early presentation of the HIV/AIDS Bill in Parliament. PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee

Students wait to be interviewed at St. Stephen’s College on the North Campus on Monday. PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee

This sequence of photographs shows the moon being covered by the shadow of the earth during the total lunar eclipse as seen from New Delhi early on Thursday.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa leaves after addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: Biplab Banerjee

Gurmeet Singh, a lookalike of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with the cast members of Act 498A — The Wedding Gift at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi on Saturday. PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee

A group of admission seekers at St. Stephen’s College, in Delhi University’s North Campus, on Thursday. PHOTO: Biplab Banerjee