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In this photo provided by the Indian Defence Ministry, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, seated third left, attends a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Li Shangfu, right, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Defence Minister's Meeting in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 27, 2023. (Indian Defence Ministry via AP)

India accuses China of violating border agreements

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Emine Dzhaparova replies to a question after her talk at an event in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, April, 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Ukraine seeks medical, war recovery assistance from India

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

A worker carries Indian national flag to place it with those of other participating countries at the opening session of the G20 foreign ministers meeting, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 2, 2023. Top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized and developing nations on Thursday opened what are expected to be contentious talks dominated by Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s moves to boost its global influence.(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

At G-20, high expectations for India as rising global power

By Sheikh Saaliq and Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends the G-20 foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi Thursday, March 2, 2023. (Olivier Douliery/Pool Photo via AP)

G-20 talks end in India without consensus on Ukraine war

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

People watch the INS Vikrant leave for trials in the Arabian Sea in Kochi, India, July 2, 2022. India is preparing to relaunch INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier after a major refit, a critical step toward fulfilling its plan to deploy two carrier battle groups as it seeks to strengthen its regional maritime power to counter China's increasing assertiveness. (AP Photo/Melton Antony)

India’s aircraft carriers key to Indo-Pacific strategy

By Ashok Sharma and David Rising - Associated Press

Thousands of Hindu devotees take spiritual-cleansing dips in the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati during the Kumbh Festival, in Allahabad, India, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. India's Hindu nationalist-led government is splurging on a religious megafest, spending unprecedented sums as part of a strategy to focus on the country's majority Hindu population ahead of a general election due this year. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

In the great Asian headcount, India about to steal a title from China

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Workers of a helmet store paste degradable plastic substitute material on a glass in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, June 30, 2022. India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as a part of a longer federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Cups, straws, spoons: India starts on single-use plastic ban

By Aniruddha Ghosal - Associated Press

President Joe Biden meets virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022. India's Defense minister Rajnath Singh, is center, and India's foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is right (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden presses a wary India on Russia as Ukraine crisis deepens

By Tom Howell Jr. and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

An anti-smog gun is used to control dust at a construction side in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. Air pollution remained extremely high in the Indian capital on Thursday, a day after authorities closed schools indefinitely and shut some power stations to reduce smog that has blanketed the city for much of the month. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

New Delhi’s air still ‘very poor’ despite emergency measures

Associated Press

Indian youth above eighteen years age queue up to get vaccinated against the coronavirus in Gauhati, Assam, India, Monday, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

In India’s northeast there’s fear of a virus surge to come

By WASBIR HUSSAIN and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Family members pay last respect to their relative Rajendra Prasad Mishra, a 62-year-old man who has lost his life from coronavirus infection before cremation at River Ganges at Phaphamau in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

As cases grow, India’s vaccination campaign falters

By KRUTIKA PATHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2020, file photo, Vice President Kamala Harris' maternal uncle, Balachandran Gopalan, talks to media outside his house, in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Personal ties: Harris’ family in India where COVID rages

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press

Family members of COVID-19 victims leave as their funeral pyres burn at an open crematorium set up at a granite quarry on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India hits another grim record as it scrambles oxygen supply

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2020, file photo, Vice President Kamala Harris' maternal uncle, Balachandran Gopalan, talks to media outside his house, in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Personal ties: Harris’ family in India where COVID rages

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2021, file photo, a man walks carrying a refilled cylinder as family members of COVID-19 patients wait in queue to refill their oxygen cylinders at Mayapuri area in New Delhi, India. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldn’t get a COVID-19 test. (AP Photo/Ishant Chauhan, File)

Top court orders India’s government to present oxygen plan

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Body of a COVID-19 victim is wheeled in a ground that has been converted into a crematorium in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 1, 2021. India on Saturday set yet another daily global record with 401,993 new cases, taking its tally to more than 19.1 million. Another 3,523 people died in the past 24 hours, raising the overall fatalities to 211,853, according to the Health Ministry. Experts believe both figures are an undercount. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma)

Indian court urges government action as hospitals cry help

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

A man reads a morning newspaper at a market closed due to new restrictions announced by government to control the spread of the coronavirus, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

The Latest: 10% of Washington town positive for COVID-19

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A family member performs the last rites of a COVID-19 victim at a crematorium in Jammu, in Jammu, India, Friday, April 30, 2021. Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

India launches effort to inoculate all adults against COVID

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 mourns at a crematorium in Jammu, in Jammu, India, Friday, April 30, 2021. Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Hospital fire kills 18 coronavirus patients as India steps up jabs

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

FILE- In this April 8, 2021 file photo, people wait in queues outside the office of the Chemists Association to demand necessary supply of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir, in Pune, India. As India faces a devastating surge of new coronavirus infections overwhelming the health care system, people are turning to desperate measures to keep loved ones alive. (AP Photo, File)

Indians turn to black market, unproven drugs as virus surges

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and NEHA MEHROTRA - Associated Press