Indian soldiers march during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India on January 26, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Indian school children throws rose flower petals over a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi to pay their tribute on the death anniversary of the Indian founding father, in Chennai on January 30, 2024. The death anniversary of Gandhi, who is widely known in India as Bapu (father), is also observed as Martyrs' Day in the country. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Commuters walk along platforms at the Churchgate railway station in Mumbai on January 31, 2024. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





A farmer inspects a handful of mustard seeds after winnowing on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Wednesday, January 31, 2024. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A woman and a man thresh harvested mustard on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Wednesday, January 31, 2024. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Daily wage workers transport sacks of vegetables on their bicycles during early morning at a wholesale market in Mumbai on February 1, 2024. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





A rickshaw puller transports a load at a wholesale market in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, February 1, 2024. India’s finance minister unveiled on Thursday a short-term budget to meet government expenditures until national elections are held by May. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Labourers move a cart loaded with spice sacks at a wholesale market, a day before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government presents its final budget, ahead of the nation's general election, in the old quarters of Delhi, India, on January 31, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





In this photo taken on January 31, 2024, a farmer ploughs a potato farm on the outskirts of Varanasi. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/AFP Photo)





A man clears snow from the roof a house following the first snowfall of the winter on the outskirts of Srinagar on February 1, 2024. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





A fisherman casts his net into river Jhelum during a cold winter day in Srinagar on February 5, 2024. Weather across the Kashmir valley has improved after receiving fresh snowfall following prolonged dry weather. The flight operations at Srinagar Airport and road traffic on the Srinagar-Jammu highway that were hit by the snowfall on Sunday were restored on Monday. (Photo by Saqib Majeed/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman crosses a slippery bridge as it snows on the second consecutive day in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, February 4, 2024. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Fish are kept to dry at a fishing harbour in Visakhapatnam, India, on February 6, 2024. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard near the site of a shootout in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, February 7, 2024. Assailants fatally shot a non-local worker and wounded another in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir late Wednesday, police said and blamed militants fighting against Indian rule in the disputed region for the attack. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





India's Bharatiya Janata Party supporters celebrate after Uttarakhand state lawmakers passed a uniform marriage law for all religions in Dehradun, India, Wednesday, February 7, 2024. The northern Indian state on Wednesday approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under a new law that also requires couples that live together to register with the government or face punishment. (Photo by AP Photo)





Kashmiri Muslims pray as the head priest displays a relic at the Hazratbal shrine on the occasion of Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to heaven, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, February 8, 2024. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





A Bengal tiger grabs a bag of food belonging to labourers at the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur, India in the first decade of February 2024. The workers were cutting the grass to avoid forest fires in the area. The wild feline, watched on by its family, later dropped the bag without any harm caused. (Photo by Jignesh Patel/Solent news)





Hindu devotees cross a pontoon bridge as they arrive to take a holy dip at the “Sangam” the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, on the auspicious bathing day of “Mauni Amavasya” during the annual religious “Magh Mela” festival in Prayagraj on February 9, 2024. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





A Hindu devotee performs rituals on “Mauni Amavasya” at Kapaleeshwar Temple pond in Chennai on February 9, 2024. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





State government officials throw flowers from a helicopter as Hindu devotees throng Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges and the Yamuna on “Mauni Amavasya” in Prayagraj, India, Friday, February 9, 2024. “Mauni Amavasya” is a new moon day, considered auspicious for bathing here during the ongoing annual month long Hindu religious fair “Magh Mela”. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)