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FILE - In this Monday, May 11, 2020, file photo, Nepalese students shout slogans during a protest against the Indian government inaugurating a new road through a disputed territory between India and Nepal, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepal's latest border dispute with India, that has strained relations between the two South Asian countries with centuries-old historical, cultural and economical ties, has brought tiny Himalayan nation's bickering political parties together in a rare show of unity. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

Nepal’s parties show rare unity on border dispute with India

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Blood samples from coronavirus patients are prepared for analysis as part of the TACTIC-R trial, in the Blood Processing Lab in the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, in Cambridge, England, Thursday, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool)

Monkeys accused of swiping blood samples taken from coronavirus patients

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this April 24, 2017, file photo, attorney Harmeet Dhillon speaks during a news conference in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

GOP lawyer fights California governor on stay-at-home orders

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

In this July 22, 2011 file photo, people stand by the banks of the Pangong Lake, near the India-China border in Ladakh, India.Indian officials say Indian and Chinese soldiers are in a bitter standoff in the remote and picturesque Ladakh region, with the two countries amassing soldiers and machinery near the tense frontier. The officials said the standoff began in early May when large contingents of Chinese soldiers entered deep inside Indian-controlled territory at three places in Ladakh, erecting tents and posts. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

AP Explains: What’s behind latest India-China border tension

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

An Indian man selling earthen pots beneath a bridge drinks water in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, May 28, 2020. India faced scorching temperatures and the worst locust invasion in decades on Thursday as authorities prepared for the end of a months-long coronavirus lockdown despite recording thousands of new infections every day. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Virus, heat wave and locusts form perfect storm in India

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

A vendor drinks water on a summer day in Jammu, India, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Many northern cities in India are reeling under an intense heat wave with the temperatures on Wednesday crossing a scorching 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Northern India wilts under crippling heat wave

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

India, China in tense standoff at Himalayan frontier

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands before their meeting at Hyderabad House, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump offers to mediate border tensions between China and India amid standoff

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Swarms of desert locusts threaten India’s summer crops

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

This Saturday, May 23, 2020, photo provided by sister Pinky Baby shows Jyoti Kumari 15, with her father at their home in Darbhanga district in Bihar state, India. Kumari rode a bicycle hundreds of miles with her father riding pillion to escape the constraints of a coronavirus lockdown in India that appears to have staved off an unmanageable spike in coronavirus cases but that triggered an exodus of migrant workers and crippled the economy. The 15-year-old has been invited to try out with the Cycling Federation of India, the body that sends team to the Olympics, and won accolades as far away as Washington, D.C. But she says she didn't pedal her father home to their village in pursuit of fame but rather simply to survive. (Pinky Baby via AP)

Desperate Indian girl bikes 745 miles home with disabled dad

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

A villager clears tree branches fallen in front of his house after Cyclone Amphan hit the region, at Baguranjalpai village in East Midnapore district in West Bengal state, India, Friday, May 22, 2020. People forgot about social distancing and crammed themselves into government shelters, minutes before Cyclone Amphan crashed in West Bengal. The cyclone killed dozens of people and the coronavirus nine in this region, one of India’s poorer states. Even before the cyclone, its pandemic response was lagging; the state has one of the highest fatality rates from COVID-19 in India. With an economy crippled by India’s eight-week lockdown, and health care systems sapped by the virus, authorities must tackle both COVID-19 and the cyclone’s aftermath.(Debasis Shyamal via AP)

Recovery begins after storm ravages Indian, Bangladesh coast

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

A girl rides a cycle past tree branches that fell after cyclone Amphan hit the region, in Kolkata, India, Thursday, May 21, 2020. A powerful cyclone that slammed into coastal India and Bangladesh has left damage difficult to assess Thursday. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Death and destruction after cyclone hits India, Bangladesh

By Sheikh Saaliq and Julhas Alam - Associated Press

A man walks in the rain ahead of Cyclone Amphan landfall, at Bhadrak district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. A strong cyclone blew heavy rains and strong winds into coastal India and Bangladesh on Wednesday after more than 2.6 million people were moved to shelters in a frantic evacuation made more challenging by coronavirus. (AP Photo)

Cyclone dumps rain on India, Bangladesh, 2M head to shelters

By Aniruddha Ghosal and Julhas Alam - Associated Press

A chemist displays hydroxychloroquine tablets in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Donald Trump’s use of malaria drug likely to be welcomed in India

By Emily Schmall and Aniruddha Ghosal - Associated Press

Kashmir Squeeze Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

In this time of COVID-19, Kashmir endures a ‘double lockdown’ over India’s warmongering

By Asad Majeed Khan

President Donald Trump speaks during the presentation of the Space Force Flag in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump: U.S. will donate ventilators to India amid pandemic

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A Kashmiri girl watches relatives and neighbors mourn the death of a civilian Mehraj-ud-din Shah outside his home in Makhama village, west of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Indian soldiers fatally shot the young man at a checkpoint in the Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wednesday, residents and officials said, triggering anti-India protests and clashes in the disputed region. India’s Central Reserve Police Force said the man was driving a car and ignored signals to stop at two checkpoints in the western outskirts of Srinagar, the region’s main city. The victim’s father, Ghulam Nabi Shah, denied the police account, saying his son did not drive through any checkpoints, and that soldiers first stopped him and then shot him. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Soldiers shoot man in Kashmir, triggering anti-India clashes

Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, May 7, 2020, file photo, smoke rises from LG Polymers plant, the site of a chemical gas leakage, in Vishakhapatnam, India. The plastics factory in India where a chemical gas leak killed 12 people and sickened hundreds more last week lacked federal environmental clearance but had been issued state permits to operate anyway, exposing a potentially dangerous enforcement gap in the country's laws. The owner of the LG Polymers plant in Andhra Pradesh state, South Korean chemicals giant LG Chem, said in a May 2019 affidavit that formed part of an application for the clearance that the company &quot;doesn't have a valid environmental clearance substantiating the produced quantity, issued by the competent authority, for continuing operations.&quot; (AP Photo/File)

Indian LG plant lacked environmental clearance before leak

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the BRICS Business Council prior to the 11th edition of the BRICS Summit, in Brasilia, Brazil. Modi announced Tuesday, May 12, 2020, that the government will spend the equivalent of nearly 10% of the country's GDP on a coronavirus virus economic relief package designed to make the world's second most populous nation more self reliant. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

India’s prime minister announces huge virus relief package

Associated Press

Migrant workers from other states desperate to return to their homes walk through rail tracks toward a train station in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, May 11, 2020. The workers were turned away by authorities since no trains are scheduled to depart to their respective states on Monday. India’s train network, closed in late March, will gradually restart operations on Tuesday as the country eases its coronavirus lockdown amid a steep rise in the cases of infections. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India to start limited trains as it looks to ease coronavirus lockdown

By Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press