Devotees offering prayers on the occasion of Shivaratri, at Bejera on Thursday. – UB Photos

Baksa DC Ranjan Sarma flagging off a SVEEP van at Mushalpur on Thursday. – UB Photos

BJP leader Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, MP Dilip Saikia, BTC chief Pramod Boro and BTC deputy chief Gobinda Basumatary with candidates of the BJP and the UPPL, who filed their nomination papers, in Udalguri on Thursday. – Photo: RR Sapkota

A member of rescue services, kneels to listen during the ongoing search for survivors in the debris of a collapsed building in Izmir, Turkey on Saturday. A strong earthquake struck on Friday in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of Samos, killing several people and injuring hundreds amid collapsed buildings and flooding. – AP/PTI

Devotees stand in a queue to offer prayers on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri at the Umananda Temple, in Guwahati on Thursday. – AT photo

Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal flags off the 3000 HP Cape Gauge Locomotive for export to Mozambique, via video-conferencing, in Varanasi on Wednesday. – PTI

Devotees throng the Sivadoul premises on the occasion of International Siva Festival, in Sivasagar on Wednesday. – UB Photos

Supporters accompanying BJP candidate for the Morigaon Assembly seat Rama Kanta Deori, who filed his nomination papers in Morigaon on Wednesday. – UB Photos

A damaged car on the road following a storm that lashed Upper Shillong in Meghalaya on Wednesday. – UB Photos

Shiite pilgrims make their way to the shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, a key Shiite saint, for the annual commemoration of his death, in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday. – AP/PTI

Angana Theatre presenting a play Godan under the direction of Ujjala Barman during the Singhapurush Radha Govinda Baruah Jyotirupa drama festival at Rabindra Bhavan, in Guwahati on Wednesday. – AT photo