Snapshots of the Fortnight (June 20 � July 03, 2012)

By: Forbes India Photo Team

Published:
09/07/2012 12:00 AM

Image by : Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

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Image by : Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

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A boy enjoys lying down in mud while celebrating the Asar Pandhra festival in Pokhara valley, west of Nepal's capital Kathmandu. Farmers in Nepal celebrate the festival to mark the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields

Image by : Reuters

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Image by : Reuters

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A rider rears up on his horse surrounded by a cheering crowd during the traditional Fiesta of San Joan (Saint John) in downtown Ciutadella, on the Spanish Balearic Island of Menorca. The riders of the horses represent the different classes of ancient Ciutadella society—nobility, clergy, craftsmen and farmers

Image by : Parivartan Sharma / Reuters

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Image by : Parivartan Sharma / Reuters

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A crane removes the carcass of a 40-year-old elephant called Chanchal after it was hit by a truck and killed at the Noida expressway on the outskirts of New Delhi on June 29, 2012. Chanchal was a pet kept by a resident

Image by : Francois Lenoir / Reuters

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Image by : Francois Lenoir / Reuters

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Guests enjoy a ‘Dinner in the Sky’ on a platform hanging in front of the Cinquantenaire park in Brussels. Dinner in the Sky accommodates 22 guests, seated at a table suspended from a crane at a height of 40 metres

Image by : Christian Hartmann / Reuters

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Image by : Christian Hartmann / Reuters

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People wave during the inauguration trip of the world’s first open-air double-decker cable car system, the newly-built ‘Cabrio’, on the Stanserhorn mountain, near Lucerne, Switzerland. The lake and the city of Lucerne are seen in the background

Image by : Michaela Rehle / Reuters

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Image by : Michaela Rehle / Reuters

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Around 1,700 naked volunteers pose for American artist Spencer Tunick in downtown Munich

Image by : Andrea Comas / Reuters

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Image by : Andrea Comas / Reuters

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People in their underwear queue up as they wait to get clothes for free, outside a clothing store in Madrid. A clothing brand marked the start of sales in Madrid by offering the first 100 customers clothes for free as long as they showed up in their underwear

Image by : Javier Barbancho / Reuters

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Image by : Javier Barbancho / Reuters

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Spain’s national team soccer players celebrate on top of a bus with their supporters a day after their victory at the Euro 2012 in central Madrid on July 2, 2012. Spaniards seized on their Euro 2012 triumph as a source of restored national pride after months of economic anxieties, as celebrations were set to reach fever pitch on Monday with a victory parade in the capital

Image by : Stefano Rellandini / Reuters

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Image by : Stefano Rellandini / Reuters

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A supporter celebrates with the horse after jockey Luigi Bruschelli of the Onda (Wave) parish won the Palio race in Siena on July 2, 2012. Almost every year without fail since the mid-1600s, 10 riders compete bareback on July 2 and August 16, around Siena's shell-shaped central square in a bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child

Image by : Reuters

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Image by : Reuters

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Support and medical personnel carry International Space Station (ISS) crew member Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA (centre, front) shortly after the landing of Soyuz TMA-03M capsule in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan on July 1, 2012. Pettit, together with Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency, completed their six-and-a-half-month mission on the International Space Station, according to NASA

Image by : Sheng Li / Reuters

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Image by : Sheng Li / Reuters

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A 49-year-old electric bike mechanic who identified himself only as Wu welds a component to fit onto his newly-made robot (right) at his repair shop in Shenyang, in China. Wu spent 10 days to make this robot which can walk and pump up tires by itself

Image by : Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters

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Image by : Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters

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A man is seen photographing the full moon in Brasilia, Brazil

Image by : Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

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Image by : Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

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The sun reflects off the club as Tiger Woods hits off on the seventh tee during the final round of the AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland on July 1, 2012

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