Presidential candidate P.A. Sangma (C) with Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi (L) and State BJP chief C.P. Thakur during a meeting with Bharatiya Janta Party legislators in Patna

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia during the release function of "MGNREGA Sameeksha" (an anthology of research studies on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, 2006-2010)

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh during the release function of "MGNREGA Sameeksha"

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks during the release function of "MGNREGA Sameeksha"

An Egyptian woman shouts slogans as others raise posters of what they say " political prisoners", during a protest in front of Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo to demand the release of political prisoners arrested by the military over the last 18 months

Pakistanis hold placards and chant slogans during an anti-NATO rally in Karachi

Sorana Cirstea, of Romania, returns to Dominika Cibulkova, of Slovakia, during a quarterfinal of the Bank of the West tennis tournament

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, center, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, right, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, left, crew members of the next mission to the International Space Station, shake hands after a news conference in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome

Union Minister of Law and Justice Salman Khurshid (C), Justice Altamas Kabir, Judge, Supreme Court of India (L) and Justice A K Sikri, Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Delhi, during the conference on "e-Courts : Present and Future"

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama exchanging greetings with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at a function in Srinagar on Saturday. Dalai Lama is on a six-day private visit to Kashmir

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama affectionately pulling the beard of a Muslim Tibetan refugee at a function in Srinagar