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Family members of a person who died due to COVID-19 perform the last rites at a crematorium in Jammu, India, Monday, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India’s health system

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Workers unload empty oxygen cylinders returning from hospitals at a gas supplier facility in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. India has been overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of new coronavirus cases daily, bringing pain, fear and agony to many lives as lockdowns have been placed in Delhi and other cities. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Low on beds, oxygen, India adds global high 314K coronavirus cases

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

People wearing masks as precaution against the coronavirus shop for vegetables at a Sunday market in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Sunday, April 18, 2021. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)

India’s capital to lock down as nation’s virus cases top 15M

By Aijaz Hussain and Aniruddha Ghosal - Associated Press

A police man stops an auto rickshaw at a check point during a weekend lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus in Prayagraj, India, Sunday, April 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Johnson scraps Delhi trip; UK puts India on virus ‘red list’

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

A driver of an electric car charges his vehicle at public charging station in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 1, 2021. India has ambitions to expand use of electric vehicles to wean itself from polluting fossil fuels, but EVs are still a rarity on its congested highways. A lack of charging stations and poor quality batteries are discouraging drivers from switching over. (AP Photo/Neha Mehrotra)

India’s electric vehicles face practical, technical hurdles

By NEHA MEHROTRA - Associated Press

Health workers wait to screen passengers at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj train Terminus in Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 15, 2021. The teeming metropolis of Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra, the Indian state worst hit by the pandemic, face stricter restrictions for 15 days starting Wednesday in an effort to stem the surge of coronavirus infections. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Day workers leaving India’s cities as virus dries up jobs

By RAJANISH KAKADE - Associated Press

A police officer tries to control a crowd waiting to board trains at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. India's worst-hit and richest state Maharashtra will impose stricter restrictions for 15 days on Wednesday in an effort to stem the surge of coronavirus infections that is threatening to overcome hospitals. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

With 200,000 in 1 day, India skyrockets past 14M virus cases

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

As tensions ease, Pakistan allows partial trade with India

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Neelesh Deepak, a theatre artist, watches a rehearsal of an upcoming show he is managing at a theatre in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. First, his food supplies ran scarce. Then he couldn’t pay his apartment’s rent. Out of money, he eventually returned to his village to stay with his parents, biding time to cope with never seen before isolation. When Deepak returned back to the Indian capital in October, things had changed. Most theatres had closed. Upcoming shows were suspended indefinitely and thousands of his peers had no jobs. His struggle continued for months until he eventually joined a nonprofit group as a researcher. His income plummeted from between $500 to $600 a month to a little more than $150. He struggles just to buy food. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Many lives were changed by India’s lockdown a year ago

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Female farmers protest against new Indian agriculture laws

By NEHA MEHROTRA and RISHI LEKHI - Associated Press

Members of National Students Union of India (NSUI), the student body of the Congress party, shout slogans against the government while condemning the arrest of Indian climate activist Disha Ravi, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Ravi, 22, was arrested in Bengaluru on Saturday for circulating a document on social media supporting months of massive protests by farmers. Police said at a news conference on Monday that the document spread misinformation about the farmer protests on the outskirts of New Delhi and “tarnished the image of India.” (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Indian police detain students demanding release of activist

By RISHI LEKHI - Associated Press

Indian police arrest climate activist for supporting farmers

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Pakistani traders burn a representation of Indian flag during demonstration to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Pakistan's political and military leadership on Friday marked the annual Day of Solidarity with Kashmir, vowing to continue political support for those living in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir and for a solution to the disputed region's status in accordance with U.N. resolutions. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

India restores 4G mobile internet in Kashmir after 550 days

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Indian farmers sit on their tractors after arriving at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border for Tuesday's tractor rally in New Delhi, India, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Thousands of farmers gathered on the borders of Delhi for a massive tractor rally on Tuesday against the three contentious farm laws when India will celebrate its Republic day with a military and cultural parade. The two-month-old old blockade of highways connecting the capital with the country's north continues as the talks have remained deadlocked with the government refusing to scrap the new agricultural reform laws which the farmers say will benefit large corporations. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Angry Indian farmers prepare for massive Republic Day rally

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Women farmers pray during a gathering in protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Haryana state border, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. From students, teachers and nurses to housewives and grandmothers, women are now holding the front lines at the massive protests that have blockaded key highways leading to India's capital for more than a month, demanding the repeal of new farm laws. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Month on, women hold the fort at India farmer protests

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Activists of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference listen to their party president Farooq Abdullah during a meeting a day after the District Development Council elections results in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. An alliance of political parties opposed to New Delhi’s policies in Kashmir has won a majority of seats in local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semiautonomous status and took direct control last year. The alliance, which is pro-India but favors self-governance for Kashmir, won 112 out of a total of 280 seats in District Development Council elections. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Kashmir parties opposed to Modi win seats in local polls

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE- In this Dec.14, 2020 file photo, protesting farmer leaders shout slogans as they sit on a day long hunger strike at the Delhi- Haryana border, outskirts of New Delhi. India’s Supreme Court offered on Wednesday to set up a mediation panel to end a three-week protest by tens of thousands of farmers who are demanding the repeal of new agricultural reform laws that they say will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India’s Supreme Court suggests government delay farm laws

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Protesting farmer leaders shout slogans as they sit on a day long hunger strike at the Delhi- Haryana border, outskirts of New Delhi, Monday, Dec.14, 2020. Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have called for a national strike on Monday, the second in a week, to press for the quashing of three new laws on agricultural reform that they say will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Protesting Indian farmers call for 2nd strike in a week

By SHONAL GANGULY - Associated Press

Farmers listen to a speaker, sitting in the middle of an expressway at the site of a protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border, India, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Indian farmers filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Friday seeking the quashing of three new laws on agricultural reform which they say will drive down crop prices, as they continued their two-week blockade of highways connecting to the Indian capital. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Protesting Indian farmers ask top court to scrap new laws

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2020 file photo, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi briefs to media during a press conference, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Qureshi on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 demanded the United Nations and the European Union investigate a recent report that exposed a 15-year disinformation campaign to serve India's interests and discredit Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan asks UN to probe fake pro-India NGOs, media

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press