Villagers use a boat to cross a waterlogged road caused by floodwaters after a rise in water level of River Yamuna following monsoon rains at Badara Sanuti Village, near Allahabad on August 20, 2022. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





A general view of the section of a railway bridge washed away by the deluge at the Chakki River after flash floods in Kangra district, in India's Himachal Pradesh state on August 20, 2022. At least 15 people were killed in India after heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides near the Himalayan foothills, authorities said August 20, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A herd of wild Asiatic elephants bathe in a wetland on the outskirts of Guwahati, on August 21, 2022. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





People cremate on open-air pyres along a street in Allahabad on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





A farmer dries her saree during a Maha Panchayat or grand village council meeting as part of a farmers' protest against what they say are unfulfilled promises by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, in New Delhi, India on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Boatmen row to rescue boats afloat amid monsoon rains at Upper lake in Bhopal on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Gagan Nayar/AFP Photo)





An artisan gives final touches to an eco-friendly idol of the Hindu god Lord Ganesha at a workshop ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival on the outskirts of Hyderabad on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A delivery man pedals his transport rickshaw loaded with office chairs past an Ambassador taxi in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, August 23, 2022. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





A boy makes his way on a bicycle along a flooded road near the Ganges River in Allahabad on August 23, 2022, as water levels rose following monsoon rainfalls. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Villagers use a boat to cross a waterlogged road caused by floodwaters after a rise in water levels of rivers Yamuna and Ganges following monsoon rains at Badara Sanuti village near Allahabad on August 24, 2022. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





People wash clothes at Hathi Ghat along the Yamuna River with the Taj Mahal seen in the background in Agra on August 25, 2022. (Photo by Pawan Sharma/AFP Photo)





People wait for food handouts at Mother House on Mother Teresa's 112th birth anniversary in Kolkata, India, 26 August 2022. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. She began her missionary work with the poor in Kolkata in 1948, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Mother Teresa was canonized as a saint by Pope Francis in 2016. (Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA/EFE)





Christian Nuns offer their love and prayers on the eve of Mother Teresa's 112th birthday at Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata on August 26, 2022. Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor lives throughout the world & canonised by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa. (Photo by SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News)





Volunteers pick up trash from a sea beach during a beach clean-up campaign organised by the government of Andhra Pradesh in association with “Parley for the Oceans” a member of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet that planned a beach clean-up programme on a stretch of 30 kilometres with over 20,000 volunteers in Visakhapatnam on August 26, 2022. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A woman holds an umbrella and walks in the rain in Dharmsala, India, Friday, August 26, 2022. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





A man walks in a narrow lane selling carpets in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, August 27, 2022. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





A protestor holds a placard against the remission of sentence by the government to convicts of a gang rape of a Muslim woman, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, August 27, 2022. Hundreds of people on Saturday held demonstrations in several parts of India to protest a recent government decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for gang raping a Muslim woman during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





The Supertech Twin Towers collapse following a controlled demolition after the Supreme Court found them in violation of building norms, in Noida, India on August 28, 2022. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





People take part in the making of eco-friendly Idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha using clay during the Guinness World Record attempt for “The most people sculpting with modelling clay” in Bangalore, India, 28 August 2022. Around 3308 people set a new Guinness World Record achieved by Sri Vidyaranyapura Yuvaka Sangha (organisers of Bengaluru Ganesh Utsav) and Karnataka State Pollution Control Board. During the Ganpati festival, that is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha, idols of the Hindu deity are worshipped at hundreds of pandals or makeshift tents before they are immersed into water bodies. This year, the festival starts on 31 August 2022. (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA/EFE)





Women row their boats on algae-polluted water on the interior of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 August 2022. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)