An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard on a road leading towards the site of a gunfight in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Three suspected rebels were killed in a gunfight in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said, as violence in the disputed region increased in recent weeks. Two residential houses were also destroyed. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri villager cries beside her home that was destroyed in a gunfight after suspected rebels took refuge in it, in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a road leading towards the site of a gunfight in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri villager sprays water on burning debris before clearing a house destroyed in a gunfight in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A sheep is weighed at a market ahead of Eid al-Adha festival in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, July 16, 2021. Eid al-Adha is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Kashmiri shepherds push a sheep into a river to clean it before selling ahead of upcoming Muslim festival Eid al-Adha in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, July 11, 2021. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





A fisherman removes fish from a fishing net at Marina beach in Chennai, India, 09 July 2021. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA/EFE)





Yellow taxi owners wait for passengers near Victoria Memorial in Kolkata, Eastern India, 14 July 2021. The iconic Kolkata yellow taxi came to the city as early as 1907, but the city may lose its typical taxi to the coronavirus pandemic. While some thousands of the Ambassador cabs still ply the city, the demand for app-based cabs increases what seems like an end of the yellow taxis. Facing economical troubles in the wave of the coronavirus, several taxi drivers selling off their cars. The Ambassador was the first car made in India from 1956, which could accommodate four passengers as well as luggage. Nearly seven years ago, Hindustan Motors suspended its production and the factory was closed. Despite its British origins, the Ambassador was considered an Indian car and icon of prestige and every minister's and diplomat's official car was an Ambassador in India. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA/EFE)





A car moves through a flooded street during monsoon rains Jammu, India, Monday, July 12, 2021. India’s monsoon season runs from June to September. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A woman alights from a bus at a flooded street during monsoon rains Jammu, India, Monday, July 12, 2021. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A man pushes a two wheeler through a flooded street during monsoon rains Jammu, India, Monday, July 12, 2021. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Members of State Disaster Response Force conduct a search operation near the watchtowers of the Amer Fort on the outskirts of Jaipur on July 12, 2021, after 11 people were killed in lightning strikes at the fort. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





An Indian farmer herds a flock of newly purchased ducks through an agricultural field, on the outskirts of Chanduli district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, July 11, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A devotee of Hindu goddess Kali smeared in color performs a ritual during the “Bonalu” festival at the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India, Sunday, July 11, 2021. Bonalu is a month-long Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region dedicated to Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





A woman taking a nap on mangoes at city market area after the city eased the lockdown in Bangalore, India 12 July 2021. The Karnataka government eases in covid-19 related lockdown restrictions in the wake of lower coronavirus cases and positivity rate falling below 5% percent. The Karnataka state government administering record 2.5-crore doses till date since the vaccination drive was launched across the state on January 16, Karnataka ranked first in South India in inoculating maximum number of its eligible population, said state Health Minister K. Sudhakar. (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA/EFE)





A health worker administers a vaccine for COVID-19 to a boatman on an island in the River Yamuna in New Delhi, India, Friday, July 16, 2021. (Photo by Amit Sharma/AP Photo)





Cows feed from a pile of rotten fruits and vegetables inside the wholesale market in the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, July 16, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri Muslim livestock vendor feeds his flock of sheep as he waits for customers at a market ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, July 16, 2021. Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday said there is no ban on the sacrifice of animals during the upcoming Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday, a day after the government asked law enforcers to stop the sacrifice of cows, calves, camels and other animals. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A woman points towards the debris of houses after local authorities razed a settlement that was said to be in a forest land in Khori village at Faridabad district in the Indian state of Haryana on July 15, 2021. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





A man wades through a waterlogged street with a bicycle after heavy rainfall in Mumbai, India, July 16, 2021. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)