Children scavenge for coins at the edge of a lake after a fair in Dharamshala, India, Sunday, September 24, 2023. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





Kashmiris harvest paddy in a rice field on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, September 28, 2023. Agriculture is the main source of food, income, and employment in rural areas. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





An idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha is taken for immersion on the final day of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Thursday, September 28, 2023. The festival is a celebration of the birth of Ganesha, the Hindu god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Garima Kumar, 10, right, combs the hair of her younger sister Arima, 7, as she prepares for school inside their shanti on the flood plain of Yamuna River, in New Delhi, India, Friday, September 29, 2023. Their family was among those that were displaced by the recent floods in the Indian capital's Yamuna River. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Meera Devi, left, accompanies her daughter Arima, 7, to her school as they walk on the flood plain of Yamuna River, in New Delhi, India, Friday, September 29, 2023. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Meera Devi applies a coat of mix of cow dung with earth and water to seal the foundations of her restored shanti built on the flood plain of Yamuna River, in New Delhi, India, Friday, September 29, 2023. The floodwaters have receded and Devi and her family began repairing their home last month – she said they are having to do over and over again as floods are becoming more common. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A young boy tries to steer his cycle carrier carrying drinking water down a steep slope as women try to control its speed on the way to flood plain of Yamuna River were they live in New Delhi, India, Friday, September 29, 2023. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Garima, 10, right, and her sister Arima, 7, left, study outside their restored home on the flood plain of Yamuna River after coming from school in New Delhi, India, Friday, September 29, 2023. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A huge clay idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha is lifted with cranes for immersion in the Hussain Sagar Lake on the final day of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, September 28, 2023. The festival is a celebration of the birth of Ganesha, the Hindu god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





In this photo taken on September 28, 2023, miscreants burn tyres as they protest near the family home of chief minister N Biren Singh, in Imphal in India's northeastern state of Manipur, amid ongoing ethnic violence. Thousands of protestors on September 28 tried to storm the home of the chief minister of a restive Indian state riven by sectarian violence, officials said, adding that extra troops were being called in to try to maintain order. More than 150 people have been killed in the remote northeastern state of Manipur since armed clashes broke out in May between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and mainly Christian Kuki community. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Muslims pray as the head priest (not pictured) displays the holy relic of the Prophet Muhammed on Eid-e-Milad-u-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, Kashmir, India, 29 September 2023. Thousands of devotees gathered at the Hazratbal Shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Muhammed (PBUM), to offer special prayers on the occasion of the Prophet's birth anniversary. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA)





A labourer carries plastic pipe rolls at a railway store in Jalandhar on September 29, 2023. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/AFP Photo)





People look at the debris after a fire gutted nearly a dozen shanties on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, October 1, 2023. According to officials four persons were injured in the fire the cause of which is not known. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





School students pay a floral tribute to a portrait of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to mark his 154th birth anniversary on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, at Egmore Museum, in Chennai, India, 02 October 2023. Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated annually across India on 02 October, to mark the birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This year marks the 154th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, also known as the father of the Indian nation. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA)





In this photograph taken on October 2, 2023, women take part in a candlelight vigil in Imphal, to honour those who lost their lives in the ongoing ethnic clashes in India's Manipur state. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A worker collects water chestnuts from a pond on the outskirts of Ajmer on October 3, 2023. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





Security officers carry boxes of material confiscated after a raid at the office of NewsClick in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, October 3, 2023. Indian police raided the offices of the news website that's under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, in what critics described as an attack on one of India's few remaining independent news outlets. (Photo by Dinesh Joshi/AP Photo)





This handout photograph released by the Indian Army and taken on October 4, 2023, shows a flooded street in Lachen Valley, in India's Sikkim state following a flash flood caused by intense rainfall. The Indian army said Wednesday that 23 soldiers were missing after a powerful flash flood caused by intense rainfall tore through a valley in the mountainous northeast Sikkim state. (Photo by Indian Army/AFP Photo)





A man holds his mother, Sayyanbai Ikkurwar, as they wait for a stretcher at the Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Nanded, India on October 4, 2023. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Members of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) try to cross the police barricades during a protest against the arrest of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader and Member of Parliament Sanjay Singh, in New Delhi, India, 05 October 2023. Sanjay Singh was arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) over the alleged irregularities in Delhi's liquor excise policy. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA/EFE)