A woman stands on a road blocked by protesters at a demonstration site outside a crematorium where a 9-year-old girl from the lowest rung of India's caste system was, according to her parents and protesters, raped and killed earlier this week, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, August 5, 2021. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Kashmiri men take part in Friday prayers inside Jamia Masjid, or Grand Mosque, that remained closed for nearly five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Srinagar, Indian Controlled Kashmir, Friday, August 6, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





This photograph released by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) shows Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F10) carrying EOS-03, an Earth Observation satellite, taking off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, Thursday, August 12, 2021. An Indian rocket failed in its attempt Thursday to put a satellite into orbit to provide real-time images used to monitor cyclones and other potential natural disasters. (Photo by Indian Space Research Organization via AP Photo)





India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F10), carrying the earth observation satellite EOS-03, lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, August 12, 2021. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A health worker administers the Covishield vaccine for COVID-19 to a villager in a school at Kaurhagi village in Morigaon district of Assam, India, Friday, August 6, 2021. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Workers perform restoration work on a 1903 steam locomotive “PL 691” kept on display at southern railway headquarters in Chennai on August 6, 2021. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





People row past submerged houses on the banks of the overflowing river Ganges in Prayagraj, India, Tuesday, August 10, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Indian tribal people perform a folk dance to traditional music as they celebrate the International Day of the World's Indigenous​ Peoples in Mumbai, India, 09 August 2021. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA/EFE)





A man walks on a makeshift bamboo bridge between inundated houses following the flooding of River Ganges, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Thursday, August 12, 2021. Heavy rains have lashed this northern state, with flooding disrupting the lives of more than 500,000 people. (Photo by Amar Deep Sharma/AP Photo)





Indian paramilitary soldiers keep guard near the site of a grenade attack in a market area in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, August 10, 2021. Several civilians were injured in the grenade attack which police have blamed on rebels fighting against Indian rule. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





A child playfully jumps into the water accumulated at a flooded area next to a house after rising water levels in the rivers caused flooding at Jhusi area of Allahabad on August 6, 2021. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





People wait in a queue to receive the vaccine against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside a shopping mall in Mumbai, India, August 11, 2021. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





People take a dip outside a submerged Hanuman temple near as the water levels of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers rise in Allahabad on August 7, 2021. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Members of the fishermen community and activists take part in a demonstration against the Indian marine fisheries bill in Chennai on August 9, 2021. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra displays the gold medal he won in the men’s javelin at the Tokyo Games as he arrives for a rousing reception at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, Monday, August 9, 2021. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





This photograph provided by India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) shows NDRF soldiers carrying the body of a victim from the site of a landslide in Kinnaur district in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, Wednesday, August 11, 2021. A landslide struck several vehicles traveling on a highway in the hills of northern India on Wednesday, trapping as many as 50 people, officials said. (Photo by National Disaster Response Force via AP Photo)





Women applying “Henna” on their hands on the occasion of “Sinjara” festival, ahead of Teej, in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on August 10, 2021. (Photo by Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People wade through a flooded street to collect food and drinking water from a distribution centre in Amta town of Howrah district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, August 5, 2021. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A goat eats from offerings made by Hindu devotees to stone sculptures of snakes on the occasion of “Naga Panchami”, an auspicious day in the Hindu calendar in which serpents are worshipped, in the suburbs of Bangalore on August 13, 2021. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)





A statue of Indian scholar, educational reformer and politician Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya is seen submerged in flood waters on the banks of the Ganges River as the water level of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers has risen, in Allahabad on August 11, 2021. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)