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Dark clouds hang over during a pre-monsoon thunderstorm accompanied by strong winds and rain in Mumbai, India, Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Collapsing billboard kills 3 and hurts 59 in heavy rains in Mumbai. Scores might be trapped

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Women draw water from a well in the village of Bibalvadi, northeast of Mumbai, India, Saturday, May 6, 2023. The village is more than an hour's hike away for these women who walk as quickly and steadily as they can back to their homes, made of red brick, which offer a bit of respite from the extreme heat. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Precious water: As more of the world thirsts, luxury water becoming fashionable among the elite

By Martha Irvine and Dar Yasin - Associated Press

India's Mohammed Shami, left, celebrates the wicket of England's Moeen Ali , right, during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup match between India and England in Lucknow, India, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Cricket World Cup final four includes the hosts, the 5-time champions, 2 contenders. But no England

By Chetan Narula - Associated Press

A tractor unloads stones to prevent sea water entering on the Arabia Sea coast at Mandvi in Kutch district of Gujarat state, India, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. With Cyclone Biparjoy expected to make landfall Thursday evening, coastal regions of India and Pakistan are on high alert. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Indian, Pakistani coasts on high alert a day before Cyclone Biparjoy is expected to make landfall

By Ajit Solanki and Sibi Arasu and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Women walk at a local train station at Dadar, in Mumbai, India, Monday, March 20, 2023. The Center for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE), which uses a more restrictive definition of employment, found that only 10% of working age Indian women in 2022 were either employed or looking for jobs. This means there are only 39 million women employed in the workforce compared to 361 million men. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

As India’s population soars above all, fewer women have jobs

By Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

Ankur Chandra, 38, talks about his father's experience with COVID-19, during an interview Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in New York. The New York-based consultant's father is now recovering from COVID-19, alone in an apartment in India’s national capital region of Gurugram. (AP Photo/David Martin)

As virus engulfs India, diaspora watches with despair

By MALLIKA SEN - Associated Press

Fire in building with COVID-19 hospital in India kills 10

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Members of Aam Aadmi Party shout slogans demanding the release of Indian climate activist Disha Ravi, during a protest in Mumbai, India, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. The 22 years old activist was arrested Saturday for circulating a document on social media that allegedly incited protesting farmers to turn violent last month. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Scores protest in India against arrest of climate activist

By KRUTIKA PATHI - Associated Press

FILE- In this April 7, 2009, file photo, Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, left, and Aamir Khan speak during a press conference in Mumbai, India. Top Bollywood filmmakers, including superstar actors Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, have on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, filed a lawsuit against television news channels Republic TV and Times Now following the suspected suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput that set off a media frenzy and gripped the nation. Claiming that Rajput had been murdered, many television channels held filmmakers who had allegedly rejected him for roles responsible for his suicide and accused many Bollywood celebrities of being part of a “drug cartel,&quot; even though the police have maintained that there was no foul play. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

Bollywood’s powerful file suit against Indian news channels

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Bollywood actress at the center of media frenzy granted bail

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2009 file photo, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan speaks during an interview in London. Bachchan has tested positive for COVID-19 and hospitalised in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital. In a tweet on Saturday, July 11, 2020, Bachchan, 77, said his family and staff have also undergone tests and results are awaited. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Bollywood’s Amitabh Bachchan, 3 family members test positive

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010, file courtroom artist's drawing Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana, center, appears before Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago's federal court. Rana, a Pakistani-born Canadian, was convicted of a crime related to the Mumbai killings that are sometimes called India's 9/11, though U.S. prosecutors had failed to prove a terrorism charge that connected him directly to the three-day rampage during his 2011 trial. Rana who spent more than 10 years in prison for supporting terrorist groups has been arrested in Los Angeles to face charges in India for attacks in Mumbai in 2008 that killed more than 160 people, U.S. prosecutors said Friday, June 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)

Ex-businessman facing murder charges in Mumbai terror attack

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

In this May 30, 2017, file photo, Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput speaks during a press conference to promote his movie "Raabta" in Ahmadabad, India. Rajput was found dead at his Mumbai residence on Sunday, Press Trust of India and other media outlets reported. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

Sushant Singh Rajput, Bollywood actor, found dead

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FILE- In this May 30, 2017 file photo, Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput speaks during a press conference to promote his movie &quot;Raabta&quot; in Ahmadabad, India. Rajput was found dead at his Mumbai residence on Sunday, Press Trust of India and other media outlets reported. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

Popular Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, found dead

By RAFIQ MAQBOOL - Associated Press

Community activist Kunal Kanase, 31, stands for a picture in a lane of Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, India, Saturday, May 16, 2020. Kanase is among many unsung heroes working to protect some of India’s most vulnerable people from the ravages of the coronavirus and the economically devastating nationwide lockdown that has left millions unable to feed themselves. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Amid virus, those in India’s largest slum help one another

By YIRMIYAN ARTHUR - Associated Press

This Tuesday, June 2, 2020, satellite image released by NASA shows Cyclone Nisarga roaring toward the western coast of India. The cyclone is forecast to make landfall Wednesday, June 3, 2020, afternoon on the country's west coast near Mumbai, a coastal city home to 18.4 million people and known for the Bollywood film industry. Mumbai hasn't been hit by a cyclone in more than a century, raising concern about its readiness. (NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) via AP)

Cyclone lashes India’s business capital; 100,000 evacuated

By RAFIQ MAQBOOL and EMILY SCHMALL and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

This May 31, 2020, satellite image released by NASA shows Cyclone Nisarga roaring toward the western coast of India. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) authorities say that the cyclone brewing in the Arabian sea is expected to cross very close to India's western coast on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Maharashtra and Gujarat states are on pre-cyclone alert as heavy rainfall is expected in the region. The city of Mumbai, already overwhelmed with the high incidence of coronavirus cases, is bracing for this unusual cyclone that may inundate low-lying slum areas. (NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) via AP)

Indian metropolis of Mumbai braces for rare cyclone

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

In this April 18, 2020, file photo, children wait to receive free food distributed in a slum during a lockdown to check the spread of the new coronavirus in Mumbai, India. A plan to give the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to thousands of people in Mumbai’s crowded slums to prevent coronavirus infections has temporarily been shelved, officials said Wednesday, April 29. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

Plan to use malaria drug in Mumbai slums temporarily shelved

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

In this April 18, 2020, file photo, children wait to receive free food distributed in a slum during a lockdown to check the spread of the new coronavirus in Mumbai, India. A plan to give the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to thousands of people in Mumbai’s crowded slums to prevent coronavirus infections has temporarily been shelved, officials said Wednesday, April 29. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

India scraps plan to test hydroxychloroquine in Mumbai slums

By Aniruddha Ghosal - Associated Press

In this April 3, 2020, photo, Rajesh Dhaikar's children play with balloons in their house in Prayagraj, India. Dhaikar has a small balloon stall in a nearby market, selling plastic bursts of red and blue and yellow one at a time, and rarely earning more than $2.50 a day. His wife, Suneeta, makes about $20 a month cleaning homes. They have five children, ranging in age and a bank account with about $6.50 in it. India has launched one of the most draconian social experiments in human history, locking down its entire population, including hundreds of millions of people who struggle to survive on a few dollars a day. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

‘I am so afraid’: India’s poor face world’s largest lockdown

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press