Tibetan artists living-in-exile take cover under the fabric of a canopy as they wait to perform on stage during the Himalayan Festival 2015 at McLeod Ganj near Dharamsala, India, December 10, 2015. Artists from the Himalayan region take part in the annual Himalayan Festival which is organized by the Indo-Tibetan Friendship Association (ITFA). (Photo by Raminder Pal Singh/EPA)





Kashmiri village girls walk back home after collecting fallen dry leaves in Ajas, some 52 Kilometers (33 miles) north east of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, November 29, 2015. Kashmiris collect fallen leaves in autumn to make charcoal for use during winters. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A labourer drinks water while harvesting wheat crop at a field in Jhanpur village of the northern Indian state of Punjab in this April 18, 2012 file photo. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Sikh girls play flutes as they take part in a religious procession on the eve of the 546th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the first Sikh Guru and founder of Sikh faith, in Amritsar, India, November 24, 2015. (Photo by Munish Sharma/Reuters)





Sikh boys take part in a religious procession on the eve of the 546th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the first Sikh Guru and founder of Sikh faith, in Amritsar, India, November 24, 2015. (Photo by Munish Sharma/Reuters)





Women sit around candles after lighting them to celebrate Dev Deepawali festival on the banks of the Ganges River in Allahabad, India, November 25, 2015. Dev Deepawali is celebrated on the fifteenth day of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, on the full moon day in the month of Karthik (also known as Karthik Purnima). (Photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)





A devotees holds a baby to receive blessings near the offerings inside a Gurudwara or a Sikh temple on the occasion of the 546th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the first Sikh Guru and founder of Sikh faith in Chandigarh, India, November 25, 2015. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Devotees take ride on boats on river Yamuna on a winter morning in Allahabad, India, December 1, 2015. (Photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)





A worker ties a sack filled with rice at the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) market yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, December 1, 2015. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A money lender counts Indian rupee currency notes at his shop in Ahmedabad, India, in this May 6, 2015 file photo. China's accession to the International Monetary Fund's elite has left behind India, whose cautious approach to liberalisation means the rupee is unlikely to be a viable candidate for reserve currency status for at least a decade. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Trucks are seen parked in an open plot near a national highway on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, December 2, 2015. India will force all commercial trucks more than 15 years old off the road from April and is reviewing how it checks vehicle emissions, a senior transport official said, as the government tries to curb soaring urban air pollution. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A man crosses a railway track next to a stationed train on a foggy morning in Allahabad, India, December 7, 2015. (Photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)





Flood-affected people gesture to an Indian coast guard helicopter for relief materials in Chennai, India, December 6, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)





A woman waits outside her house for a water tanker to fill her containers with drinking water, after flood water receded in Chennai, India, December 7, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)





A woman walks in an alley filled with mud and debris to collect relief goods as clothes are hung out to dry after flood waters receded in Chennai, India, December 7, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)





Municipal workers clear the debris in an alley after flood waters receded in Chennai, India, December 7, 2015. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters)





Indian traditional laundrymen known as “dhobis” wash clothes at an open air laundry on a foggy morning in Allahabad, India, December 9, 2015. (Photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)





An Indian rickshaw cyclist sleeps next to an advertisement for a more environmentally friendly city, urging residents to switch to public transport, on a foggy morning in New Delhi on December 7, 2015. To reduce pollution in the capital to promote the use of public transport, the Delhi government is planning to allow vehicles with odd and even registration numbers on alternate days from January 1, 2016. (Photo by Prakash Singh/AFP Photo)





Tribal artists and supporters from the southern Indian state of Karnataka dance outside the residence of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi during her birthday celebrations in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, December 9, 2015. The Italian-born Gandhi is the widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and has led the Congress party since 1998. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





Tribal artists and supporters from the southern Indian state of Karnataka dance outside the residence of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi during her birthday celebrations in New Delhi, India, December 9, 2015. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri Muslim hangs chillies to dry in the open iar, on the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 09 December 2015. In preparation for the onset of winter, Kashmiris often dry vegetables in the sun to be consumed over the colder months. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA)





A picture made available 09 December 2015 shows a member of the Tiwa tribe performing a ritual while separating grain from chaff in the Karbi Anglong district of Assam state, northeast India, 08 December 2015. Tiwa is a major tribe of Assam state who practice Jhum, a form of slash and burn cultivation on a rotational basis leaving some lands fallow to rejunivate while other lands are used to produce crops. Harvest season in the Jhum fields has begun and will continue until December. (Photo by EPA/Stringer)





A worker at a retail coal store awaits customers in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Deember.3, 2015. An Indian delegate at U.N. climate talks says India will be able cut back on its carbon emissions if money is made available to boost renewable energy in an envisioned climate agreement in Paris.India's negotiators want to make sure that any deal in Paris doesn't restrict India's ability to expand its economy and electricity access to about 300 million people who currently have none. That means it's hard for India to abandon coal power, a key source of carbon emissions that currently accounts for about 60 percent of its power capacity. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A worker cleans a sewage pipe in Bhopal, India, 02 December 2015. Bhopal sees the 31st anniversary of a gas leak at the then Union Carbide Corporation plant in the city overnight 03 December 1984, which killed at least 15,000 people in what is considered the world's worst industrial accident. (Photo by Sanjeev Gupta/EPA)





Indian Sikh sewadars – volunteers – stand during dense fog at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on December 9, 2015. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





An Indian Sikh devotee takes a dip in the holy sarover (water tank) during dense fog at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on December 9, 2015. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





An Indian woman is surrounded by bedding hung out to dry as floodwaters recede in Chennai, India on Dec. 7, 2015. Residents in India's southern Tamil Nadu state were grappling with the aftermath of devastating floods as authorities stepped up relief work following the worst deluge in decades that killed over 250 people. (Photo by AFP Photo)