A girl watches the Cricket World Cup final match between Australia and India on a mobile as she joins devotees performing rituals on the banks of river Yamuna during Hindu festival Chhath Puja in Prayagraj, India, Sunday, November 19, 2023. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Devotees perform rituals during sunset in the polluted Yamuna River that is covered with toxic foam caused by industrial waste during the Chhath Puja festival in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 19 November 2023. Chhath Puja, the worship of the setting and rising Sun, is dedicated to Chhatti Mai, the goddess of power. The Hindu festival is all about pure devotion, cultural bonds, and the distribution of fruits and sweetmeats. It is seen as a serene event when bejeweled women in colorful saris visit the banks of rivers and ponds, singing folk songs. Then they take a dip in the water and pray to the Sun god. The Yamuna River is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA)





Devotees perform religious rituals as they offer prayers to Sun god while standing in the waters of a lake on the occasion of the Hindu festival of Chhat Puja in Chandigarh on November 20, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Farmworkers wash radishes at a field in Jalandhar on November 20, 2023. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/AFP Photo)





Choudhary, shows a picture of his son Manjeet Kumar trapped in the Silkyara under construction road tunnel, days after it collapsed in the Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state on November 21, 2023. Forty-one Indian workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for 10 days were seen alive on camera on November 21, for the first time, looking exhausted and anxious, as rescuers attempted to create new passageways to free them. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Shoes of excavators are seen at a shelter house, during a rescue operation to free workers trapped in the Silkyara under construction road tunnel, days after it collapsed in the Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state on November 22, 2023. Indian rescuers have drilled two-thirds of the way through debris towards 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel, officials said on November 22, warning that the next 24 hours could be critical. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A man displays his moustache during a moustache competition at the annual fair at Pushkar, in India's Rajasthan state on November 22, 2023. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





A boatman steers a boat in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi on November 23, 2023. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





A tourist takes a picture of the Taj Mahal amid heavy smog conditions in Agra on November 23, 2023. (Photo by Pawan Sharma/AFP Photo)





A man walks past litter amid dense smog in the outskirts of Amritsar on November 24, 2023. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Monkeys walk across a street, amid heavy smog conditions in New Delhi on November 24, 2023. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





Municipal workers wade with a garbage cart through a waterlogged road following heavy rains, in Chennai, India, 25 November 2023. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted more rainfall and issued a thunderstorm warning for several districts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on 25 November. Authorities declared a holiday for schools in Chennai as overnight rain caused waterlogging in several parts of the city. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA)





Sikh devotees participate in a religious procession ahead of the birth anniversary of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak, in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, November 25, 2023. The birth anniversary of Guru Nanak will be marked on Nov. 27. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Fellow workers gather near the site of a tunnel collapse as they wait for instructions to take part in the rescue and relief operations, in Uttarkashi, India, 26 November 2023. Rescue and relief operations were underway as 40 workers remained trapped after an under-construction tunnel collapsed on 12 November 2023. The workers were expected to be rescued on 24 November but rescue operations were halted due to some technical glitch. (Photo by Harish Tyagi/EPA)





Policemen in ceremonial attire pay respect at the Police Memorial to commemorate 15th anniversary of the 2008 Mumbai militant attacks, in Mumbai on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





A participant of the Delhi Queer Pride Parade poses for a photograph during the march in New Delhi, India, Sunday, November 26, 2023. This annual event comes as India's top court refused to legalize same-sеx marriages in an October ruling that disappointed campaigners for LGBTQ+ rights in the world's most populous country. (Photo by Shonal Ganguly/AP Photo)





Sikh girls are enthusiastically demonstrating their skills in various activities during the long and colorful Nagar Kirtan procession near Shish Ganj Gurudwara on the day before the Prakash Parv (554th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji) in Old Delhi on November 26, 2023. The celebration of Guru Nanak Dev Ji's birthday is marked with various activities and events within the Sikh community. Gurdwaras (Sikh temples) are decorated, and special prayers, kirtan (devotional singing), and processions are organized by Sikh. (Photo by Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Sikhs perform “Gatka” an ancient form of martial arts, during a religious procession at the Golden Temple on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, in Amritsar on November 27, 2023. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A local Hindu priest (C) distributes offerings to a worker arriving at the site of the Silkyara tunnel that collapsed while being under construction, to join in rescue operations, in Uttarkashi, India on November 27, 2023. Rescue and relief operations continue for the 41 workers who remain trapped after the tunnel on the Brahmakal Yamunotri National Highway collapsed on 12 November 2023. The workers were expected to be rescued on 24 November but operations were halted due to some technical glitch. The Indian Army has also joined the rescue operations and a vertical drilling was started as another option. A team of miners was assigned to start manual drilling and digging by hand to reach the trapped workers. (Photo by Harish Tyagi/EPA/EFE)





This handout photo provided by the Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations shows Pushkar Singh Dhami, right, Chief Minister of the state of Uttarakhand, greeting a worker rescued from the site of an under-construction road tunnel that collapsed in Silkyara in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, Tuesday, November 28, 2023. Dhami said eight workers were rescued so far on Tuesday. The laborers are being pulled out through a passageway made of welded pipes which rescuers previously pushed through dirt and rocks. (Photo by Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations via AP Photo)