A labourer works at a grain wholesale market in Jalandhar on May 1, 2024. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/AFP Photo)





Children shelter from the sun under an umbrella while travelling in the back of a bicycle cart during a hot summer day in New Delhi on May 2, 2024. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A firefighter arrives to douse flames at the grasslands of Yamuna floodplains in New Delhi on May 3, 2024. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A spotted deer stands in a shade on a hot day at the Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata, India, Friday, May 3, 2024. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, shows his finger marked with indelible ink after casting a ballot at a polling station during the third phase of voting for national elections in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Voting kicks off in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat in the third phase of India's election Tuesday, with campaigning becoming increasingly acrimonious between the two main parties. (Photo by Prakash Singh/Bloomberg)





A voter smokes after casting his ballot at a polling station during the third phase of India's general elections in Gola village in Banaskantha on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





Purnima Boro, 30, a Bodo tribal woman in traditional attire riding a bicycle shows the indelible ink mark on her index finger as she returns after casting her vote during the third phase of general election on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A boy jumps off a boat into the Ganges river to cool off on a hot summer day in Kolkata, India on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Sahiba Chawdhary/Reuters)





A caretaker takes his horse for a dip in sea on a hot summer day in Mumbai on May 8, 2024. Extensive scientific research has found climate change is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





A fan comes on to the playing field and prostrates in front of Chennai Super Kings' MS Dhoni during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, May 10, 2024. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Supporters of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) party listen candidate Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi speak during an election campaign rally in Srinagar on May 11, 2024, ahead of the fourth phase of voting of India's general election. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





Chief minister of the capital Delhi and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal's supporters wave party flags at his election rally in New Delhi on May 11, 2024. A top opponent of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his compatriots to resist "dictatorship" on May 11, after the country's top court provisionally released him from jail to campaign in national elections. Kejriwal also personally accused the prime minister of targeting his opponents with criminal probes. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A boat carries an illuminated message “Modi is in all the hearts”, in support of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as people stand on the banks of the river Ganges at Varanasi, India on May 12, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Indian security personnel walk past a boy catching fish in the interiors of Dal Lake, towards their designated polling station, ahead of the fourth phase of the general elections, in Srinagar on May 12, 2024. (Photo by Sharafat Ali/Reuters)





Women gather to welcome polling officials as part of a ritual as they arrive to board a ferry to reach their designated polling stations in a remote area of Chitrakonda, ahead of the fourth phase of India's general election, in the eastern state of Odisha, India, on May 12, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





An election official uses a model of an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) to demonstrate how to vote, at a polling station during the fourth phase of India's general election, in Malkangiri district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, on May 13, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A woman leaves a polling station past Indian security force personnel standing guard during the fourth phase of India's general election on the outskirts of Srinagar on May 13, 2024. (Photo by Sanna Irshad Mattoo/Reuters)





People from the Bonda tribe stand in queues as they wait to cast their votes during the fourth phase of India's general election, in Malkangiri district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, on May 13, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A man shows ink mark on his finger after casting his vote during the fourth phase of India's general election in Baba Nagri, northeast of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, May 13, 2024. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Supporters react as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, arrives to worship at the Kaal Bhairav temple before filing his nomination papers to contest as a candidate for the parliamentary elections in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Varanasi will go to polls on June 1 in the seventh and last phase of the six-week-long election. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)