A lone truck travels on the Zojila Pass, northeast of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, September 27, 2021. High in a rocky Himalayan mountain range, hundreds of people are working on an ambitious project to drill tunnels and construct bridges to connect the Kashmir Valley with Ladakh, a cold-desert region isolated half the year because of massive snowfall. The $932 million project’s last tunnel, about 14 kilometers (9 miles) long, will bypass the challenging Zojila pass and connect Sonamarg with Ladakh. Officials say it will be India’s longest and highest tunnel at 11,500 feet (3,485 meters). (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)
Laborers engaged under a government program that guarantees 100 days of employment a year in rural, return home through a field, in Mubarakpur village, Chandauli district, in Uttar Pradesh state, India, Thursday, September 30, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)
Indian women in traditional attire practice Garba, a traditional dance of Gujarat state, ahead of Hindu festival of Navratri in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, October 1, 2021. The Hindu festival of Navratri or nine nights will begin from Oct. 7. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)
Labourers stitch bags filled with paddy grain at a wholesale grain market in Amritsar on October 1, 2021. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)
Indian farmers protesting against Sunday’s killing of four farmers in Uttar Pradesh state after being run over by a car owned by India’s junior Home Minister Ajay Mishra burn an effigy of the federal government in Hyderabad, India, Monday, October 4, 2021. Indian authorities on Monday suspended Internet services and barred political leaders from entering a northern town to calm tensions after eight people were killed in a deadly escalation of a year-long demonstration against contentious agriculture laws. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)
Pigeons fly over the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Vidhana Soudha, the seat of the state legislature of Karnataka, in Bangalore, India 02 October 2021. India commemorates the 152nd birth anniversary of Indian lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, on 02 October 2021. (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA/EFE)
Villagers watch a burnt car which ran over and killed farmers on Sunday, at Tikonia village in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Monday, October 4, 2021. Indian police on Saturday, Oct. 9, arrested the son of a junior minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government as a suspect days after nine people were killed in a deadly escalation of yearlong demonstrations by tens of thousands of farmers against contentious agriculture laws in northern India, a police officer said. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)
A woman reacts while receiving a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a slum during the fourth mega vaccination drive against the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, in Chennai, India, 03 October 2021. The Tamil Nadu state government organised the fourth mega COVID-19 vaccination drive to vaccinate more people across the state. So far, India has administered over 900 million cumulative COVID-19 vaccines, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya said on 02 October. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA/EFE)
In this aerial photograph taken on October 4, 2021, boys dive in an open water tank at a farmland on the outskirts of Bangalore. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)
A student walks in through an entrance decorated with balloons during the partial reopening of a school that remained closed due to the coronavirus pandemic at Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums, in Mumbai, India, Monday, October 4, 2021. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)
Farmers harvest chrysanthemum flowers from a field on the outskirts of Bangalore on October 5, 2021. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)
An artisan prepares an idol of Hindu goddess Durga ahead of the Hindu religious festival season in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, October 5, 2021. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)
Hindu devotees perform a ritual to pay obeisance to forefathers on the last day of “Pitru Paksha”, or days for offering prayers to ancestors, on the banks of the historic Banganga water tank in Mumbai on October 6, 2021. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)
A man practices yoga along a footpath in Amritsar on October 6, 2021. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)
Indian policemen chase away Kashmiri motorcyclists as they cordon off the area outside a government school where two teachers were shot dead by assailants in the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, October 7, 2021. Authorities blamed militants fighting against Indian rule for the attack. Thursday’s incident marks the seventh targeted killings in six days. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)
Camel owners wait for tourists in the sand dunes of Thar Desert at Sam village in India’s Rajasthan state on October 7, 2021. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)
A devotee offers prayers on the first day of ‘Navratri’ or the nine nights Hindu festival that symbolises the triumph of good over evil at the Mata Longa Wali Devi temple in Amritsar on October 7, 2021. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)
People stand around the funeral pyre of slain government school principal Supinder Kour at a cremation ground in Srinagar on October 8, 2021, a day after suspected anti-India militants shot dead two school teachers in Indian-administered Kashmir. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)
Indians wearing traditional attire perform the Garba, a dance of Gujarat state, to celebrate the Hindu festival Navratri in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, October 7, 2021. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)
An Indian girl wearing traditional attire takes selfie as others perform the Garba, a dance of Gujarat state, to celebrate the Hindu festival Navratri in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, October 7, 2021. Navratri, or nine nights festival, began Thursday. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)
