A girl covers her head with a repurposed engine oil container to shield herself from the sun as she walks to collect water from a leaking municipal pipe on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Friday, May 31, 2024. Officials say a scorching heat wave has killed at least 14 people, including 10 election officials, in eastern India with temperatures soaring up to 49.9 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of India this week. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Women stand in queue to cast their votes in the seventh and final phase of national elections, in Varanasi, India, Saturday, June 1, 2024. Indians began voting Saturday in the last round of a six-week-long national election that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decade in power. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Student activists shout slogans against the war in Gaza and to show solidarity with the people of Palestine during a protest in New Delhi, India, Saturday, June 1, 2024. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) flashes victory sign as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the party’s win in country's general election, in New Delhi on June 4, 2024. Modi claimed election victory for his party and its allies on June 4, but the opposition said they had “punished” the ruling party to confound predictions and reduce their parliamentary majority. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters light firecrackers after hearing of a candidate's victory during the counting of votes in India's national election, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Supporters of Narendra Modi, India's Prime Minister and leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate vote counting results for India's general election, in Bengaluru on June 4, 2024. India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies were heading for victory in the country's general election count on June 4, but with a reduced parliamentary majority as the opposition surpassed expectations. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/AFP Photo)





A supporter (R) of Indian National Congress (INC) party waves India's national flag after counting of votes began for India's general election, at the INC headquarter in New Delhi on June 4, 2024. Vote counting began in India's election on June 4, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi all but assured a triumph for his Hindu nationalist drive that has thrown the opposition into disarray and deepened concerns for minority rights. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Supporters of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) light fireworks to celebrate after learning the initial general election results, in Srinagar on June 4, 2024. (Photo by Sharafat Ali/Reuters)





Supporters of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) dance as they celebrate their party's lead during the counting of votes in India's national election in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A man riding pillion tries to hold on to an umbrella as it turns inside out in the wind during a rainfall in Chennai, India, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. India receives its monsoon rains from June to October. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Activists from various Sikh organisations hold placards as they offer prayers on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Operation Blue Star, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A person drives through a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A woman touches the trunk of a banyan tree after tying a tread around it as part of the rituals to mark Vat Purnima festival, in Prayagraj, India, Thursday, June 06, 2024. Vat Savitri is celebrated on a full moon day where married women pray for the longevity of their husbands. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A woman touches her forehead to the trunk of a banyan tree after tying a tread around it as part of the rituals to mark Vat Purnima festival, in Prayagraj, India, Thursday, June 06, 2024. Vat Savitri is celebrated on a full moon day where married women pray for the longevity of their husbands. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





An artist paints portraits of Indian prime ministers at his workshop in Amritsar on June 7, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to the media outside the Rashtrapati Bhavan after receiving a letter from the President of India, Draupadi Murmu, inviting him to form the next central government, in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 7, 2024. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





An asthma patient is administered a traditional “fish medicine” in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, June 8, 2024. Every year thousands of asthma patients arrive here to receive this fish therapy from the Bathini Goud family, which keeps a secret formula of herbs, handed down by generations only to family members. The herbs are inserted in the mouth of a live sardine, or murrel fish, and slipped into the patient's throat. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Women quench their thirst with the tap water on a hot summer afternoon during heatwave in Prayagraj on June 10, 2024. India's heatwave is the longest ever to hit the country, the government's top weather expert said on June 10 as he warned people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures. Parts of northern India have been gripped by a heatwave since mid-May, with temperatures soaring over 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). (Photo by Anil Shakya/AFP Photo)





A man is silhouetted against the sun as he bathes on a hot summer day at a village on the outskirts of Ajmer on June 11, 2024 amid heatwave. India's heatwave is the longest ever to hit the country, the government's top weather expert said on June 10 as he warned people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures. Parts of northern India have been gripped by a heatwave since mid-May, with temperatures soaring over 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





Students join a rally as part of the World Day Against Child Labour in Guwahati, India on June 12, 2024. (Photo by Dasarath Deka/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)