People wait to collect bodies of relatives who died in a fire in New Delhi, India, Sunday, December 8, 2019. Dozens of people died on Sunday in a devastating fire at a building in a crowded grains market area in central New Delhi, police said. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





This photo taken on October 3, 2019, shows a labourer transporting a large load of non bio-degradable thermocol and styrofoam waste sheets on a road on the outskirts of New Delhi. (Photo by Prakash Singh/AFP Photo)





Villagers pluck water chestnuts from a pond in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Wednesday, December 4, 2019. Workers earn about about 250 Rupees ($3.50 USD) a day after spending 5-6 hours extracting the aquatic vegetable that grows mostly in stagnant water. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Residents play over foamy discharge, caused by pollutants, as it mixes with the surf at Marina beach in Chennai on December 1, 2019. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





An Indian commando tries to stop as protesters block traffic during a shutdown protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, December 10, 2019. Opponents of legislation that would grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim illegal migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have enforced an 11-hour shutdown across India's northeastern region. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Indian workers install electricity cables on the banks of the river Ganges in preparation for the annual Hindu religious fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad on December 5, 2019. The Magh Mela is held every year on the banks of Triveni Sangam – the confluence of the three great rivers Ganga, Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati – in Allahabad during the Hindu month of Magh which corresponds to mid January - mid February. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Indian labourers push a pontoon buoy in the banks of the Ganges River as they build a floating bridges for the upcoming Hindu festival of Magh Mela, in Allahabad on December 6, 2019. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Kashmiri woman takes part in a physical test of a recruitment rally for the Special Police Officers (SPO) in Jammu and Kashmir Police, in Srinagar on December 6, 2019. As many as 23,000 people have applied for posts in the Special Police Officers (SPO) in Jammu and Kashmir Police and 100 positions will filled in the current phase of recruitment, local authorities said. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





Police officers try to detain demonstrators during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, that seeks to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighbouring Muslim countries, in Agartala, India, December 11, 2019. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)





A Kashmiri girl looks on as a priest (not pictured) displays the relic of Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani at his shrine in Srinagar, India, 09 December 2019. Hundreds of devotees gathered at the shrine during their 11-day festival to mark the death anniversary of the Sufi saint. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)





A schoolgirl walks on an under-construction railway track at Navapura, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, November 29, 2019. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A woman prepares to remove rainwater from her house after heavy rains in Chennai, India, December 2, 2019. (Photo by P. Ravikumar/Reuters)





Boys try to catch fish in an overflowing drain after heavy rains in Chennai, India, December 2, 2019. (Photo by P. Ravikumar/Reuters)





A woman gets her eyes tested at a free eye-care camp on the occasion of Indian politician Babasaheb Ambedkar's death anniversary in Mumbai, India, December 6, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Newly recruited Indian army soldiers from the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) celebrate during a passing out parade at JAKLI army headquarter in Srinagar on December 7, 2019. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





In this Thursday, October 31, 2019, photo, a recovering tramadol addict waits for her medication at a de-addiction center in Kapurthala, in the northern Indian state of Punjab. The pills were everywhere, as legitimate medication sold in pharmacies, but also illicit counterfeits hawked by itinerant peddlers and street vendors. India has twice the global average of illicit opiate consumption. Researchers estimate about 4 million Indians use heroin or other opioids, and a quarter of them live in the Punjab, India's agricultural heartland bordering Pakistan. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Indian navy personnel display their skills during Naval Day celebrations in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, December 4, 2019. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Rescue workers react as the second of India's highest 118-meter twin cooling towers of Gujarat State Thermal Power Station starts to collapse on the outskirts of Gandhinagar some 40 kms from Ahmedabad on December 1, 2019. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)





Commuters pass by a fire on a road set by demonstrators during a protest against the government's Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Guwahati on December 12, 2019. Indian police fired blanks on December 12 as thousands of protesters ignored a curfew in the north-east of the country, in a fresh day of demonstrations against contentious new citizenship legislation. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





A woman exercises inside a park amid fog in Srinagar on December 10, 2019. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)