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In this photo taken Monday, May 29, 2017, an Indian family enters a fast food restaurant in New Delhi, India. More than two decades of rapid economic growth has changed Indians’ lifestyles. People eat out more often, and prefer Western-style junk food such as burgers and pizza over traditional lentil and vegetable meals. The changes have brought a sharp rise in obesity, along with lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, even as India still has some of the world’s worst levels of malnourishment and stunted childhood growth due to a paucity of food. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

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ADDS FIRST NAME OF DR. BISHNOI - In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Indian patients, seen from behind a fogged glass, wait for consultation inside the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, India. The packed waiting room at Dr. Anurag Bishnoi’s clinic bears witness to the fact that working-class families across the country are willing to spend their limited savings for a child of their own. The cost of IVF treatment in India is relatively low, even though many families have to pay on their own. At Bishnoi's clinic, one cycle of IVF costs about 110,000 rupees ($1,700), compared to about $12,000 in the U.S. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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ADDS FIRST NAME OF DR. BISHNOI - In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, photographs of Hindu deities are placed on a poster of a doctor holding a baby inside the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, India. The packed waiting room at Dr. Anurag Bishnoi’s clinic bears witness to the fact that working-class families across the country are willing to spend their limited savings for a child of their own. The cost of IVF treatment in India is relatively low, even though many families have to pay on their own. At Bishnoi's clinic, one cycle of IVF costs about 110,000 rupees ($1,700), compared to about $12,000 in the U.S. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Dec. 23, 2016 photo, Gurdev Singh takes his daughter Gurjeet Kaur on a joyride in the compound of their house in Ellenabad, India. Gurjeet is the child Singh's wife Manjeet Kaur yearned for desperately, after 40 years of being that thing which a rural Indian woman dreads more than almost anything else - barren. She gave birth at 58 years old, with help from a controversial IVF clinic in this corner of north India that specializes in fertility treatments for women over 50. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Dec. 23, 2016 photo, Manjeet Kaur, left, and her husband Gurdev Singh, right, walk with their daughter Gurjeet Kaur in the compound of their house in Ellenabad, India. Gurjeet is the child Kaur yearned for desperately, after 40 years of being that thing which a rural Indian woman dreads more than almost anything else - barren. She gave birth at 58 years old, with help from a controversial IVF clinic in this corner of north India that specializes in fertility treatments for women over 50. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Dec. 23, 2016 photo, Gurdev Singh, right, laughs as he sits on a cot next to his elder brothers Puran Singh, second right, and Hazur Singh holding his niece Gurjeet, left, in the compound of their house in Ellenabad, India. Gurjeet is the child Gurdev Singh's wife Manjeet Kaur yearned for desperately, after 40 years of being that thing which a rural Indian woman dreads more than almost anything else - barren. She gave birth at 58 years old, with help from a controversial IVF clinic in this corner of north India that specializes in fertility treatments for women over 50. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, framed newspaper clippings on patients are hung on a wall inside the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, India. The packed waiting room at Dr. Anurag Bishnoi’s clinic bears witness to the fact that working-class families across the country are willing to spend their limited savings for a child of their own. The cost of IVF treatment in India is relatively low, even though many families have to pay on their own. At Bishnoi's clinic, one cycle of IVF costs about 110,000 rupees ($1,700), compared to about $12,000 in the U.S. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Indian patients, seen from behind a fogged glass, wait for consultation inside the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, India. The packed waiting room at Bishnoi’s clinic bears witness to the fact that working-class families across the country are willing to spend their limited savings for a child of their own. The cost of IVF treatment in India is relatively low, even though many families have to pay on their own. At Bishnoi's clinic, one cycle of IVF costs about 110,000 rupees ($1,700), compared to about $12,000 in the U.S. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, photographs of Hindu deities are placed on a poster of a doctor holding a baby inside the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, India. The packed waiting room at Bishnoi’s clinic bears witness to the fact that working-class families across the country are willing to spend their limited savings for a child of their own. The cost of IVF treatment in India is relatively low, even though many families have to pay on their own. At Bishnoi's clinic, one cycle of IVF costs about 110,000 rupees ($1,700), compared to about $12,000 in the U.S. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Dr. Anurag Bishnoi, bottom, browses through photographs of his patients on his iPad in his office at the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, India. The packed waiting room at Bishnoi’s clinic bears witness to the fact that working-class families across the country are willing to spend their limited savings for a child of their own. The cost of IVF treatment in India is relatively low, even though many families have to pay on their own. At Bishnoi's clinic, one cycle of IVF costs about 110,000 rupees ($1,700), compared to about $12,000 in the U.S. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Dec. 23, 2016 photo, Manjeet Kaur, left, watches her daughter Gurjeet crawling in the compound of their house in Ellenabad, India. Gurjeet is the child Kaur yearned for desperately, after 40 years of being that thing which a rural Indian woman dreads more than almost anything else - barren. She gave birth at 58 years old, with help from a controversial IVF clinic in this corner of north India that specializes in fertility treatments for women over 50. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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FILE - In this May 8, 2017 file photo, Indian Defense Minister Arun Jaitley, left, is greeted by his Japanese counterpart Tomomi Inada prior to their meeting at Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japan and India affirmed plans to strengthen their military cooperation amid rising tensions in the South China Sea and elsewhere in Asia. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

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The moon rises by the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F09) that lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, Friday, May 5, 2017. India successfully launched the GSAT-9 satellite, the South Asia Communication Satellite, to provide communications services to its neighboring countries. Initially known as the SAARC satellite, it is now called the South Asia Satellite after Pakistan pulled out of the project. Seven of the eight South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, namely India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives, are part of the project. (AP Photo)

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, talks to media during his ceremonial reception at the Indian presidential palace, in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 1, 2017. Erdogan is on a two-day state visit to India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Women grieve as they await the arrival of the body of Indian paramilitary soldier Sanjay Kumar at his home in Palampur, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Dharmsala, India, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Kumar was among 25 Indian paramilitary soldiers who were killed by Maoist rebels in central India on Monday in one of the worst attacks on the country's security forces in recent years. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

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Supporters of Kashmir's Awami Ittihaad party shout slogans protesting against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, April 2, 2017. Kashmiri separatists called for a strike Sunday to protest against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the disputed region. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Under the Paris climate agreement, China and India face far fewer restrictions than does the United States, a sticking point with President Trump, who says that the U.S. facing much stricter policies is one reason he wishes to exit the nonbinding accord.(AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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Relatives grieve as last rites are performed on Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old engineer who was killed in an apparently racially motivated shooting in a crowded Kansas bar, at his residence in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2017. According to witnesses, the gunman yelled "get out of my country" at Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani before he opened fire at Austin's Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, on Wednesday evening. Both men had come to the U.S. from India to study and worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

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A family member performs rituals over the body of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old engineer who was killed in an apparently racially motivated shooting in a crowded Kansas bar, at a crematorium in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2017. According to witnesses, the gunman yelled "get out of my country" at Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani before he opened fire at Austin's Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, on Wednesday evening. Both men had come to the U.S. from India to study and worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

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Sunaina Dumala performs rituals around the body of her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old engineer who was killed in an apparently racially motivated shooting in a crowded Kansas bar, at their residence on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2017. According to witnesses, the gunman yelled "get out of my country" at Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani before he opened fire at Austin's Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, on Wednesday evening. Both men had come to the U.S. from India to study and worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. (AP Photo /Mahesh Kumar A.)