People crowd the registration counter at Tej Bahadur Sapru Hospital in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Thursday, June 23, 2022. The hospital is experiencing heavy rush this summer with several patients turning up with heat related ailments. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





School students perform Jumping stunts and stunts on buffaloes during the summer vacation in a water pond in the scorching heat of Delh, East Delhi on Friday, June 24, 2022. (Photo by Ravi Batra/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman fills drinking water from a tube well in the flood affected Barsimolua village in Nalbari district, in India's Assam state on June 24, 2022. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





A man carries his belongins from his partially submerged house at Barsimolua village in Nalbari district, in India's Assam state on June 24, 2022. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





An artisan prepares eco-friendly idols of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha for Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, June 25, 2022. The Telangana High Court has banned the use of plaster of paris in idol making. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





A firefighter holds a child evacuated from a hospital after a fire broke out in a commercial complex housing a children's hospital in Ahmedabad, India, June 25, 2022. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A boy dives in a puddle of muddy water as he enjoys the rains in Mumbai, India, Monday, June 27, 2022. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Rescuers look for survivors in the debris of a four-story residential building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. At least three people died and more were injured after the building collapsed late Monday night. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Rescue workers cheer as a survivor is brought out alive on a stretcher from the debris of a collapsed building in Mumbai on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Imtiyak Shaikh/AFP Photo)





People walk amid a sandstorm at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, on a summer day in Allahabad on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





A passenger travels in a public transport bus without wearing a face mask at the Broadway bus terminus amid a sharp surge in the COVID-19 cases in Chennai, India, 28 June 2022. The state government of Tamil Nadu has announced the wearing of face masks mandatory yet again following a sharp rise in the daily COVID-19 cases in the state as 1,472 cases were registered in the last 24 hours. The state health department in a press release said that it would start collecting fines under the Tamil Nadu Public Health Act 1939, from those who are not wearing face masks and not following COVID-19 measures in the public places. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA/EFE)





A man carries a boy on his back as he wades through flood waters in Pobitora in Morigaon district, east Gauhati, Assam state, India, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Erratic and early rains had triggered unprecedented floods in the region. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A woman shows flood damaged corn crop as she dries them on a road at a village in Morigaon district, east of Gauhati, Assam state, India, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Erratic and early rains had triggered unprecedented floods in the region. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Policemen detain activists from right wing Hindu parties protesting against the Tuesday killing of Kanhaiya Lal, a Hindu man in a suspected religious attack in western Udaipur city in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Police arrested two Muslim men accused of slitting a Hindu tailor’s throat and posting a video of it on social media, representing a dramatic escalation of communal violence in a country split by deep religious polarization. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A man rides a rickshaw loaded with tricycles past the statues of Mahatma Gandhi (R) and Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman before their installation near a railway station as part of the golden jubilee celebration Bangladesh's independence, in Kolkata on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, walks along a path next to another pilgrim during the pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath, near Baltal on June 30, 2022. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





Soldiers stand guard as Hindu devotees begin the Amarnath Yatra annual pilgrimage to to an icy Himalayan cave, in Chandanwari, Pahalgam, south of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Officials say pilgrims face heightened threat of attacks from rebels fighting against Indian rule and have for the first time tagged devotees with wireless tracking system. They also have deployed drones for surveillance. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A man sits on a cart next to a sewer canal filled with plastics and other waste in New Delhi on June 30, 2022. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





Children play as it rains in New Delhi Thursday, June 30, 2025. India's monsoon season runs from June to September. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A man dressed as Pothuraju, a mythical character, performs rituals during the Bonalu festival in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Bonalu is a month-long Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region dedicated to Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)