A railway guard shows the signal for the train to start, on board the Thirukkural Express at Nizamuddin railway station in New Delhi, Saturday, April 20, 2024. The Thirukkural Express stretches from New Delhi, the heart of India, to Kanyakumari, India's southernmost tip. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Passengers rest in a general class of the Thirukkural Express, India, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Haji Abdul Subhan, a 74-year-old former railway employee, speaks while travelling in the Thirukkural Express, Saturday, April 20, 2024. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Samodhra Meena, left, from the northern Indian state of Rajasthan travels with her mother-in-law and son, in the Thirukkural Express, India, Sunday, April 21, 202. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A passenger watches videos of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, while traveling in the Thirukkural Express, India, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Rescuers look for victims under a billboard that collapsed following heavy rain and thundershowers in Mumbai, India, Monday, May 13, 2024. Scores of people were thought to be trapped after the collapse in the suburb of Ghatkopar, Mumbai police said on social media platform X. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gather to greet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a roadshow in Varanasi, India, Monday, May 13, 2024. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Boys try to cool off in the River Tawi on a hot summer day in Jammu, India, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A woman walks past Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers outside the polling station during the fifth phase of voting in India's general election, in Mumbai on May 20, 2024. India's election is conducted in seven phases over six weeks to ease the immense logistical burden of staging the democratic exercise in the world's most populous country. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





People leave a polling station after voting, during the fifth phase of India's general election, in Mumbra, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India on May 20, 2024. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Men transport an air cooler on a two wheeler during a hot summer day in Ahmedabad, India on May 20, 2024. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People standing in a queue to cast vote outside the polling booth are reflected in a puddle during the fifth round of multi-phase national elections in Sumbal north of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, May 20, 2024. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Residents fill their containers with drinking water from a municipal tanker on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India on May 21, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A rickshaw puller sleeps next to a Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc's banner before start of their election roadshow on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India on May 21, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





People sleep on the Yamuna river bed under a bridge on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, on May 22, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A Kashmiri Muslim bride sits along with others during a mass wedding ceremony where 51 couples got married in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Mass weddings in India are organized by social organizations primarily to help economically weaker families who cannot afford the high ceremony costs as well as the customary dowry and expensive gifts that are still prevalent in many communities. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Women wipe the sweat from their faces as they wait for bus on a hot and humid summer day in Mumbai, India, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Farmers perform a ritual as part of prayers for rain, prosperity, good crop and health during the Manda Puja festival outside the Lord Shiva temple on the outskirts of Ranchi on May 23, 2024. India is no stranger to searing summer temperatures. But years of scientific research have found climate change is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar/AFP Photo)





National Disaster Response Force rescuers carry the dead body of a person after an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in Dombivali near Mumbai, India, Friday, May 24, 2024. Multiple people were killed and dozens were injured in the incident that happened Thursday. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A fire brigade official looks at the wreckage after a blast at a chemical factory in Dombivli, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)