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In this picture taken on February 26, 2009 Grammy award winning Australian singer Kylie Minogue (L) poses for a photograph along with Indian bollywood actor, Akshay Kumar at Kumar's residence in Mumbai. Minogue, over the next eight days will be in Mumbai working on Ashtavinayak Films Blue with Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Katrina Kaif, Lara Dutta and Zayed Khan and which has music scored by Oscar winner A. R. Rahman. AFP PHOTO/STR / AFP PHOTO / STR

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An Indian cyclist rides along a street as smog envelops a monument in New Delhi on October 31, 2016, the day after the Diwali festival.
New Delhi was shrouded in a thick blanket of toxic smog a day after millions of Indians lit firecrackers to mark the Diwali festival, causing the air pollution to hit "severe" level. The pollutants breached the 1000 microgram mark in the Indian capital and shot up nearly 10 times above the normal level in the early hours of Monday, mostly owing to bursting of millions of firecrackers, according to a weather scientist.
/ AFP PHOTO / MONEY SHARMA

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An Indian sadhu - Hindu holy man - looks on from his temporary camp on Gangasagar Island, around 150 kms south of Kolkata on January 13, 2017.
More than 700, 000 Hindu pilgrims and sadhus - holy men - are expected to gather at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal during the Gangasagar Mela to take a holy dip in the ocean on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology.
/ AFP PHOTO / Dibyangshu SARKAR

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