Workers carry out maintenance work on a fishing vessel at Kasimedu fishing harbour after the government eased a lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus in Chennai on June 10, 2021. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Workers pluck tea leaves during a rainfall following a relaxation of lockdown restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, at Rohini village, some 15 km from Siliguri on June 14, 2021. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/AFP Photo)





A Rohingya refugee looks for his belongings amid the charred remains of their camp following a fire incident that broke out earlier today in New Delhi on June 13, 2021. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





Workers organises a bar counter at a Bar cum restaurant in Kolkata, India on June 16, 2021. Restaurants and bars are allowed to operate as the West Bengal government withdraws COVID-19 restrictions as cases have seen a steady decline according to media reports. (Photo by Debarchan Chatterjee/ZUMA Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Sikh devotees drink sweet water distributed by volunteers on the occasion of the 415th Martyrdom Day for the Sikh Guru Arjun Dev, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on June 14, 2021. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A Sikh devotee takes a bath in the holy sarovar (water tank) on the occasion of the 415th Sikh Guru Arjan Dev's martyrdom day at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on June 14, 2021. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A health worker collects swab sample of traveler to test for COVID-19 at a train station in Mumbai, India, Thursday, June 17, 2021. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Bilal Ahmed, a transgender Kashmiri, carries a bag of rice distributed as food handout by a group in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, May 27, 2021. Life has not been easy for many of Kashmir's transgender people. Most are ostracized by families and bullied in society. Living in the shadows of conflict, coupled with the recent crisis of the pandemic, pushed the community further to the margins. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Sabu Sheikh, a transgender Kashmiri, walks homeward after collecting food handouts in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, May 27, 2021. Kashmir's transgender are often only able to find work as matchmakers or wedding entertainment. Prolonged coronavirus lockdowns, preceded by a strict security lockdown in the region in 2019 when India scrapped Kashmir's semi-autonomous status, left many in the transgender community with no work at all. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A transgender Kashmiri Maliaka Sheikh, in tradition attire of Kashmiri dancers, poses for photographs inside the home of a friend on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, June 3, 2021. The 22-year-old transgender left home as an 11-year-old and started living with other transgenders. “At the beginning it was difficult for my family to understand me but fortunately, they have now accepted me for who I am”, Maliaka said. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A relative stands next to the grave of Dr. Jibraeil, assistant professor of history at Aligarh Muslim Uliversity, who died of COVID-19, in Aligarh, India, Saturday, June 12, 2021. Within just one month, the official Facebook page of Aligarh Muslim University, one of the topmost in India, published about two dozen obituaries of its teachers, all lost to the pandemic. Across the country, the deaths of educators during the devastating surge in April and May have left students and staff members grief-stricken and close-knit university communities shaken. (Photo by Manoj Aligadi/AP Photo)





Relatives and neighbors lift the coffin of Waseem Ahmed, a policeman who was killed in a shootout, during his funeral on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, June 13, 2021. Two civilians and two police officials were killed in an armed clash in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday, police said, triggering anti-India protests who accused the police of targeting the civilians. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Kashmiri women walk past soldiers guarding near the site of a shootout at Sopore, 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, June 12, 2021. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





People watch the funeral of Waseem Ahmed, a policeman who was killed in a shootout, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, June 13, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A policeman gestures towards the media near the site of a shootout at Sopore, 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, June 12, 2021. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Women and a girl react as they wait for the body of Waseem Ahmad, an Indian policeman who according to local media was killed in a suspected militant attack in north Kashmir's Sopore town, at his house in Narbal on the outskirts of Srinagar on June 12, 2021. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Relatives and neighbors wail during the funeal of Waseem Ahmed, a policeman who was killed in a shootout, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, June 13, 2021. Two civilians and two police officials were killed in an armed clash in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday, police said, triggering anti-India protests who accused the police of targeting the civilians. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A boy jumps in the waters of Dal Lake on a hot summer day in Srinagar on June 11, 2021. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





A girl plays in a waterlogged street following a heavy monsoon rainfall in Mumbai on June 9, 2021. (Photo by Sujit Jaiswal/AFP Photo)





A group of tourists take souvenir photos at the Taj Mahal after it reopened to visitors following authorities easing Covid-19 coronavirus restrictions in Agra on June 16, 2021. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





Children wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus attend online classes at slum area outskirts of Jammu, India, Monday, June.14, 2021. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)