Motilal Vora, J. Jayalalithaa, Lalu Prasad Yadav, and HD Deve Gowda, Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, and Karnataka, at the Chief Ministers' meeting on water resources in New Delhi on February 6, 1998. Express photo by Ravi Batra. #ExpressArchives

President of South Africa Nelson Mandela with President Shankar Dayal Sharma and Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao during the arrival ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on January 25, 1995. Express photo by RK Sharma. #ExpressArchives

1984: Devotees engage in volunteer work at Golden Temple, Amritsar after Operation Bluestar. Today marks 39 years of Operation Bluestar, in which the Indian army stormed the Golden Temple to flush out militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers. #ExpressArchives

#ExpressArchives Stock market scam accused Harshad Mehta and Ashwin Mehta watch Budget, being presented by Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, on television at their residence in Mumbai. Express photo by Mukesh Parpiani

From the #ExpressArchives 1995: Minister of Information and Broadcasting P.A. Sangma with a video camera at a press conference in New Delhi on September 21. Express photo by Praveen Jain.

A man and his monkey sleep outside Churchgate station in Mumbai on 19 October, 1997. Express photo by Ramesh Nair. #ExpressArchives

June 9, 1999: Young school students rejoice on their return to school on the first day of the new academic year in Mumbai. Express photo by Vasant Prabhu. #ExpressArchives

From the #ExpressArchives Chief Minister of Delhi Madan Lal Khurana, with his wife, after getting a photograph clicked for his voter ID card in New Delhi. Express photo by Virendra Singh.

September 30, 1981: Aviation Minister AP Sharma with the crew of the hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 423 at a court in New Delhi. Express photo by S Paul. #ExpressArchives

#ExpressArchives A daredevil couple rides a motorcycle in 'maut ka kuan' (well of death) in a circus at Nizamuddin in Delhi. Express photo by Naveen Jora.

#ExpressArchives 1996: Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav hug after a meeting with Ram Vilas Paswan at Bihar Bhawan in New Delhi on March 27. Express photo by Parveen Jain.

Social activist Smita Thackeray, actor Jackie Shroff, and Dr. IS Gilada with an HIV-positive child at a press meet to announce a concert for AIDS victims in Mumbai. Express photo by Mahendra Parikh. #ExpressArchives

From the #ExpressArchives 1999: A woman holds her crying baby after her hut is demolished by the municipal corporation at Chembur in Mumbai on March 10. Express photo by Ramesh Nair.

#ExpressArchives 17 June 1955: Film actress and stuntwoman Fearless Nadia with lion cubs. Born Mary Ann Evans in Australia, she represented a profound shift in the way women were portrayed in Indian cinema and became what no woman had ever been before — the hero.

From the #ExpressArchives Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with her grandson Rahul Gandhi. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi turns 53 today, on June 19.

#ExpressArchives 1992: An Afghan refugee attempts to hold back his tears at a dharna of Sikh and Hindu refugees from Afghanistan near the UNDP office in New Delhi on November 13. Express photo by Gurinder Osan. #WorldRefugeeDay

Devotees perform a dance in the procession of Lord Jagannath #RathYatra at Chandni Chowk in New Delhi on July 2, 1992. Express photo by RK Dayal. #ExpressArchives

June 13, 1985: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi becomes the first Indian PM to address the joint session of the US Congress in Washington. The Vice President of the USA, George H. W. Bush, and the Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O'Neil, are also seen in the picture. #ExpressArchives

Sitaram Yechury, the affable, soft-spoken and popular Communist leader passed away today after brief hospitalisation. Yechury showed the rare willingness to test the limitations of Communist ideology's hard boundaries for the imperatives of democratic — and practical — politics.

From the #ExpressArchives 26 September 1996: Devotees perform a folk dance during Ganesh Visarjan as they take Mumbai's biggest Ganesh idol of 26 feet for immersion at Girgaon Chowpatty. Express photo by Manoj Patil.