Tourists enjoy a boat ride on the waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 18 March 2025. Houseboats are crucial to Jammu and Kashmir’s tourism, but craftsmen are leaving the profession due to a government ban on building new ones, aimed at protecting Dal and Nigeen lakes. During the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly’s budget session, the government clarified that repairs and renovations are still allowed with approval from a high-level committee. Building a houseboat costs INR 30,000,000 (Euro 317,753). (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)





People celebrate after the splashdown of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the safe return of U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams at her native village of Jhulasan in the western Indian state of Gujarat, India on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Villagers light fire crackers and dance as they celebrate the safe return of NASA astronaut Suni Williams, also known as Sunita Williams, from the International Space Station (ISS), at a temple in her ancestral village Jhulasan in Mehsana district of Gujarat state, India, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Workers paint a merry-go-round during a hot afternoon, at Marina beach in Chennai on March 19, 2025. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Volunteers from Birmingham in Britain with the Sikh charitable organisation Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha (GNNSJ) clean the gold plating of the Golden Temple in Amritsar on March 19, 2025. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Muslim devotees pray as the head priest displays a holy relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad during special prayers to observe the martyr day of Hazrat Ali, the fourth caliph of Islam, at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Employees of National High Speed Railway Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) work on restoration after a slab-launching crane collapsed between two pillars, near a massive gantry that used to install concrete girders between pillars on the bullet train line of Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, on March 24, 2025. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A farmer harvests wheat in a village on the outskirts of Ajmer, India, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





Visitors enjoy inside Kashmir's tulip garden on its opening day at the foothills of the Zabarwan mountain range in Srinagar on March 26, 2025. (Photo by Sharafat Ali/Reuters)





A model presents a creation by Anurag Gupta during the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) in Mumbai, India, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





An Indian hand rickshaw puller drinks water during a hot afternoon in Kolkata, India, 27 March 2025. According to the weather department, the maximum temperature could reach 39 degrees Celsius, as the summer or pre-monsoon season lasts from March to July. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA/EFE)





An artist paints a tram with the theme of Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest, as a way to raise awareness of the consequences of climate change and the need for eco-friendly modes of transportation to protect the environment, in Kolkata on March 27, 2025. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





Muslims offer prayers on the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Jama Mosque in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Women dressed in traditional attire participate in a procession to mark Gudi Padwa or the Marathi New Year in Mumbai, India, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A man dressed in traditional attire participates in a procession to mark Gudi Padwa or the Marathi New Year in Mumbai, India, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A woman dressed in traditional attire participates in a procession to mark Gudi Padwa or the Marathi New Year in Mumbai, India, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A woman dressed in traditional attire participates in a procession to mark Gudi Padwa or the Marathi New Year in Mumbai, India, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A woman dressed in traditional attire participates in a procession to mark Gudi Padwa or the Marathi New Year in Mumbai, India, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Women dressed in traditional attire participate in a procession to mark Gudi Padwa or the Marathi New Year in Mumbai, India, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)