An elderly Tibetan stands on a tin roof as he waters potted plants placed below his retirement home's windows in Dharamshala, India, Friday, April 12, 2024. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





Large cutouts representing Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Indian National Congress leaders, tower over supporters during an election campaign rally, on the outskirts of southern Chennai, India, April 15, 2024. Millions of Indians will begin voting in a six-week election that's a referendum on the populist prime minister who has championed a brand of Hindu nationalist politics and is seeking a rare third term as the country's leader. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Tea garden laborers leave at the end of their work day, in Marioni in upper Assam, India, April 16, 2024. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





People travel in an overcrowded train to their hometowns on the eve of the first phase of voting for the country's general election, at a railway station in Chennai on April 18, 2024. Nearly a billion Indians will vote to elect a new government in six-week-long parliamentary polls starting on April 19, the largest democratic exercise in the world. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





A woman shows her inked finger after casting her ballot to vote in the first phase of India's general election at a polling station in Kalamati village, Dinhata district of Cooch Behar in the country's West Bengal state on April 19, 2024. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





An elderly woman shows the indelible ink mark on her finger after casting vote at women only booth during the first round of polling of India’s national election in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Friday, April 19, 2024. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A voter looks on while waiting in front of a voter awareness mural to cast her ballot at a polling station during the first phase of voting of India's general election, in Dugeli village some 33 Km (21 miles) from Dantewada town in Chhattisgarh state on April 19, 2024. As the world's biggest democracy began a six-week election on April 19, thousands of people in villages across Bastar district, one of the last strongholds of the Naxal rebels, cast their ballots. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/AFP Photo)





Indian fire fighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out at a garbage landfill site in Ghazipur, New Delhi, India, 22 April 2024. Residents around the landfill are facing poor visibility and breathing issues due to the potentially toxic plumes of smoke. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)





Workers unload boxes containing fish as fire billows from burning garbage at the Ghazipur landfill site, in New Delhi, India on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





People ride on motorcycles through smoke from burning garbage following a fire at the Ghazipur landfill site, in New Delhi, India on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Dogs sit next to the burning garbage following a fire at Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi, India on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A firefighter works to douse fire as smoke billows from burning garbage at the Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi, India on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Residential buildings are engulfed in smoke from burning garbage following a fire at the Ghazipur landfill site, in New Delhi, India on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





An excavator tries to contain the fire as smoke rises from burning garbage following a fire at Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi, India on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A man walks on a railway track littered with plastic and other waste materials on Earth Day in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 22, 2024. This year’s Earth Day is focusing on the threat that plastics pose to our environment. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Labourers separate grains of wheat from the husk at a wholesale grain market in Amritsar on April 23, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Washermen leave embroidered shawls to dry in the sun, on the banks of river Jhelum, in Srinagar on April 24, 2024. (Photo by Sharafat Ali/Reuters)





Farmers from the southern state of Tamil Nadu display skulls and bones, which they claim are the remains of the Tamil farmers who have died by suicide, during a protest demanding better crop prices and river interlinking from the government, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India, on April 24, 2024. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A polling officer stands next to Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) and Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) as he waits for his colleagues at a distribution centre, ahead of the second phase of the general elections, in Barmer in the desert state of Rajasthan, India, on April 25, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)