A woman holds her child as she talks on a phone at the annual cattle fair in Pushkar, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, Sunday, October 26, 2025. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Hindu devotees offer prayers to the Sun god on the occasion of “Chhath Puja” festival, along the banks of river Brahmaputra in Guwahati on October 28, 2025. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





A pedestrian walks amid smog, near India Gate in New Delhi on October 29, 2025. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A woman walks across a street early morning in Chennai on October 30, 2025. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





A man exercises at a park on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India on October 31, 2025. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A rickshaw driver sleeps as other laborers gather and chat by the roadside before starting work early in the morning in the old quarters of New Delhi, Saturday, November 1, 2025. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Migratory birds surround a boat as people feed them early in the morning near the banks of the river Yamuna in New Delhi, Sunday, November 2, 2025. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A handout photo made available by The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shows ISRO's launch vehicle LVM3-M5 carrying the communication satellite CMS-03 lifting off from the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India, 02 November 2025. India's LVM3 launch vehicle successfully launched the CMS-03 communication satellite weighing about 4,400 kilograms, which will be the heaviest communication satellite to be launched to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) from Indian soil, and the 5th operational flight (LVM3-M5) on 02 November. (Photo by ISRO/EPA)





Indian Sikh pilgrims wave as they head to Pakistan through the India-Pakistan Wagah border in Wagah on November 4, 2025, on the eve of celebrations marking the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism. Indian Sikh pilgrims have been issued visas for neighbouring Pakistan, the first major allowance after travel between the arch-rival nations was frozen during conflict in May. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A Sikh devotee gestures after showing his skills at Gatka, a form of Sikh martial art, during a religious procession to celebrate the 556th birth anniversary of the first Sikh Guru or master, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, in New Delhi, India, 04 November 2025. The birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, will be observed on 05 November 2025. (Photo by Harish Tyagi/EPA)





A vendor waits for customers at a roadside hardware shop in the old quarters of Delhi on November 5, 2025. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Police personnel detain unemployed sanitation workers during a protest to demand job regularisation at the Marina Beach in Chennai on November 5, 2025. (Photo by R. Satish Police personnel detain unemployed sanitation workers during a protest to demand job regularisation at the Marina Beach in Chennai on November 5, 2025. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





A girl waits for a devotee to apply a tilak on her forehead during the annual Jhiri Fair at Kanachack village on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, November 5, 2025. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Thousands of devotees throng the ghats of the River Ganga to watch a prayer ceremony during the Dev Deepawali festival, where all the steps leading to the river glow with brightly lit earthen lamps, in Varanasi, India, Wednesday, November 5, 2025. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Women voters stand in queues to cast their ballots at a polling station during the first phase of voting for assembly elections on November 6, 2025, at the Raghopur constituency in the Vaishali district of the Indian state of Bihar. (Photo by Sachin Kumar/AFP Photo)





Security personnel along with a sniffer dog check the luggage of passengers at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, India, as part of a high alert following Monday's deadly car blast in the Indian capital, Tuesday, November 11, 2025. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Rickshaw pullers wait for passengers near the blast site, after an explosion in the Red Fort area in the old quarters of Delhi, on November 12, 2025. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 11 called a deadly car explosion in the heart of the capital a “conspiracy”, vowing those responsible will face justice. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A labourer works a sunflower field, as part of the Krishi Mela – 2025 themed ‘Prosperous Agriculture – Viksit Bharat: Soil, Water, and Crop’, held at Government Krishi Vigyan Kendra (GKVK) in Bangalore, India, 13 November 2025. The annual event of Krishi Mela, or agricultural fair, will feature a lineup of advancements in agricultural farming and a wide range of exhibitors representing industries such as seeds, agrochemicals, fertilisers, farm machinery and equipment, irrigation systems, food processing and animal husbandry. Around 700 stalls at the fair, offering practical solutions to common agricultural challenges and the latest farming technologies, cropping patterns, and research to the farmers. The four-day event runs from 13 to 16 November 2025. (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA)





A boy plays cricket on a ground near the banks of Yamuna river, on a smoggy morning, amid ongoing air pollution in New Delhi, India, on November 13, 2025. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Devotees pray with lamps during a ritual of Rakher Upobash, a Hindu religious festival that involves daylong fast and overnight prayer seeking spiritual purification, honoring Hindu saint Loknath Brahmachari at a temple, in Chakla, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, Saturday, November 15, 2025. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)