A displaced Meitei woman takes shelter at a relief camp in Moirang town in Bishnupur district in the northeastern state of Manipur, India on July 23, 2023. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A member of the ASC motorcycle display team Tornadoes performs during the passing out parade of the first batch of Agniveer soldiers at the ASC Centre & College on August 04, 2023 in Bengaluru, India. Agnipath is a new recruitment scheme for personnel below the rank of commissioned officers into the three wings of the defence forces in India where recruits will be hired for a maximum of four years. This scheme approved in June 2022 has been criticised for not providing pensions and other benefits, bypassing long tenures and lack of public debates before its implementation. Personnel recruited under this scheme are called Agniveer. (Photo by Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images)





A student participates in a peace rally to mark the anniversary of World War II atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Mumbai, India, Saturday, August 5, 2023. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





People carrying their belongings wade through flood water on the banks of the Ganges river in Prayagraj on August 6, 2023, after rise in water levels of Ganges and Yamuna river following rainfall. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Surbhi Sachdeva, a yoga trainer, looks on as participants perform yoga as the kittens play around them at a yoga session, which was organised by Pawhour, at a studio in New Delhi, India on August 6, 2023. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Participants perform yoga as the kittens play around them at a yoga session, which was organised by Pawhour, at a studio in New Delhi, India on August 6, 2023. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Kanwariyas, devotees of the Hindu deity Shiva, carry holy water from the river Narmada as they take part in a ritualistic walk through a street in Jabalpur on August 7, 2023. Kanwariyas take part in a journey on foot to carry holy water from holy rivers to temples in their home towns in an effort to fulfil wishes and endear them to the Hindu deity Shiva. (Photo by Uma Shankar Mishra/AFP Photo)





India's opposition Congress party workers celebrate the reinstatement of their leader Rahul Gandhi as a lawmaker in Mumbai, India, Monday, August 7, 2023. India’s Parliament on Monday reinstated Gandhi as a lawmaker three days after the country’s top court halted his criminal defamation conviction for mocking the prime minister’s surname. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A man takes a nap inside the Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad on August 7, 2023. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A daily wage laborer carries a metal frame at the construction site of an auditorium at Allahabad University in Prayagraj, India, Tuesday, August 8, 2023. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





An exile Tibetan Buddhist monk walks on a mountain path in Dharamshala, India, Wednesday, August 9, 2023. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





A vendor sells national flags along a roadside in New Delhi on August 9, 2023, ahead of the country's 77th Independence Day. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A village girl places flowers on the feet of a wild elephant that succumbed to injuries after being hit by a speeding train at Kurkria village, outskirts of Guwahati, India, Thursday, August 10, 2023. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Forest officials place flowers on a wild elephant that succumbed to injuries after being hit by a speeding train at Kurkria village, outskirts of Guwahati, India, Thursday, August 10, 2023. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Fans of Indian superstar Rajinikanth, cheer at a cinema hall as they celebrate the screening of his latest film “Jailer” in Mumbai, India, Thursday, August 10, 2023. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A Kathakali dancer in Kochi, India, performs a traditional story play on August 10, 2023. Kerala Kathakali originated in the Early 17th Century. A story acted that contains Mime, Acting Drama and music, The Stories are mainly taken from Hindu Mythology and Puranas. (Photo by Paul Quezada-Neiman/Alamy Live News)





A man walks past a mural with the logo of India's G20 summit, beneath a bridge in New Delhi on August 11, 2023. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A Hindu devotee gets his cheeks pierced as he takes part in an annual religious procession of goddess Sheetla Mata, in Chandigarh on August 13, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Members of the Kolkata police daredevil motorcycle team “Tornado” take part in the full-dress rehearsal for India's Independence Day celebrations in Kolkata on August 13, 2023. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A portion of the Shimla-Kalka heritage railway track that got washed away following heavy rainfall on the outskirts of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh state, Monday, August 14, 2023. Heavy monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides in India's Himalayan region, leaving more than a dozen people dead and many others trapped, officials said Monday. (Photo by Pradeep Kumar/AP Photo)