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FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2020, file photo, people queue to get tested for COVID-19 as a thick quilt of smog lingers over New Delhi, India. India is grappling with two public health emergencies: critically polluted air and the pandemic. Nowhere is this dual threat more pronounced than in the Indian capital New Delhi, where the spike in winter pollution levels has coincided with a surge of COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India’s pandemic recovery plan could cost air quality goals

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Protestors eat a meal on a highway during a strike in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Farmers in India are calling for a shutdown as their protest against new agriculture laws continue. Thousands of farmers are protesting reforms that they say could devastate crop prices and reduce their earnings. (AP Photo/Shonal Ganguly)

India farmers intensify protest against new laws with strike

By SHONAL GANGULY and ALTAF QADRI - Associated Press

India’s winter of discontent: Farmers rise up against Modi

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Jagtar Singh, 78, sits for a photograph on the back of his tractor trolley parked on a highway as he joins other farmers protesting against new laws they say will result in their exploitation by corporations, eventually rendering them landless, at the Delhi-Haryana state border, India, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Instead of cars, the normally busy highway that connects most northern Indian towns to the capital is filled with tens of thousands of protesting farmers, many wearing colorful turbans. Their convoy of trucks, trailers and tractors stretches for at least three kilometers (1.8 miles) in a siege of sorts and the mood among the protesting farmers is boisterous. Their rallying call is “Inquilab Zindabad” (“Long live the revolution”).(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

AP PHOTOS: Angry Indian farmers besiege capital in trucks

By ALTAF QADRI - Associated Press

Kashmiris stand in a queue to cast their votes during the first phase of District Development Councils election on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. Thousands of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir voted Saturday amid tight security and freezing cold temperatures in the first phase of local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region's semiautonomous status. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Kashmir people vote in local polls amid cold and security

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

A health worker takes a sample to test for COVID-19 test at a market place in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. India's confirmed coronavirus caseload is expected to surpass 9 million on Friday as authorities in New Delhi battle to slow down the surge of infections in the city by increasing testing. The country's overall tally of confirmed cases is currently the second largest in the world behind the United States. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India virus cases pass 9M; capital’s hospitals under strain

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Pedestrians wearing masks walk past a small grocery store in the Chinatown-International District Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, in Seattle. Washington state and county health officials have warned of a spike in coronavirus cases across the state, and pleaded with the public to take the pandemic more seriously heading into the winter holidays. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The Latest: India registers over 30,000 new virus cases

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

People play with fireworks during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. Hindus across the country are celebrating Diwali where people decorate their homes with lights and burst fireworks. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India celebrates Diwali amid pandemic, pollution fears

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and SHONAL GANGULY - Associated Press

A security guard stands behind a mesh screen at a construction site enveloped in smog and dust in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. A thick quilt of smog lingered over the Indian capital and its suburbs on Friday, fed by smoke from raging agricultural fires that health experts worry could worsen the city’s fight against the coronavirus. Air pollution in parts of New Delhi have climbed to levels around nine times what the World Health Organization considers safe, turning grey winter skies into a putrid yellow and shrouding national monuments. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

In India, polluted air spells trouble for virus patients

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Morning haze envelops the skyline on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. The national capital, one of the world’s most polluted cities, enjoyed a respite from air pollution up until September due to a strict virus lockdown. But now with the onset of winter leading to the dying down of winds and industrial activities resuming and cars back on the roads, the air quality in the city has once again fallen to poor levels. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Smog returns to Indian capital as agriculture fires start

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

India sets free top Kashmiri politician after a year

Associated Press

Afghanistan’s chief peace envoy Abdullah Abdullah speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Abdullah on Saturday said India’s civil and military leadership were supportive of an inclusive, peaceful settlement of the Afghan peace process and that interactions with New Delhi were expected to further deepen in the course of coming weeks and months. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

AP Interview: Top Afghan negotiator lauds India’s support

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2019, file photo, an Indian walks up to the stairs as Delhi's sky line is seen enveloped in smog and dust in New Delhi, India. Authorities in New Delhi launched an anti-pollution campaign on Monday in an attempt to curb air pollution levels ahead of winter, when the capital is regularly covered in toxic haze, and warned that filthy air could make the coronavirus pandemic more dangerous. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Indian capital launches campaign to curb toxic air pollution

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Chandrashekhar Azad, leader of the Bhim Army, a political party of Dalits who represent the Hinduism's lowest caste, speaks during a protest against the gang rape and killing of a woman in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. Hundreds of protesters on Friday demanded the dismissal of a Hindu nationalist government in a northern Indian state where a 19-year-old woman from India’s lowest caste was allegedly gang raped and brutally attacked last month and later died in a hospital. Dalits — formerly known as “untouchables” — are victims of thousands of attacks each year. According to human rights organizations, Dalit women are particularly vulnerable to caste-based discrimination and sexual violence. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Hundreds in India protest government handling of fatal rape

Associated Press

India and Taiwan Increased Trade Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why it’s imperative that India and Taiwan build deeper diplomatic ties

By Nehginpao Kipgen and Shivangi Dikshit

Indian homeless people stand in queue to receive free food distributed by the Sikh community near a railway station in Gauhati, India, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020. India's coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million, leading the world in new infections and deepening misery in the country's vast hinterlands where surges have crippled the underfunded health care system. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

India now 2nd behind US in virus cases amid economic pain

By Sheikh Saaliq and Aniruddha Ghosal - Associated Press

An Indian health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 during a door to door test drive in Gauhati, India, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. India has the third-highest coronavirus caseload after the United States and Brazil, and the fourth-highest death toll in the world. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

India records world’s biggest single-day jump in virus cases

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

A man wearing a face masks walks past an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha during reimposed weekend lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Jammu, India Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. India has the third-highest caseload after the United States and Brazil, and the fourth-highest death toll in the world. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

AP Explains: How India’s fast-growing cases topped 3 million

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

The Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing at the airport in Kozhikode, Kerala state, India, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. (AP Photo)

Plane skids off runway in India; 16 killed, dozens hurt

By Ashok Sharma and Emily Schmall - Associated Press

Indian army soldiers carry the coffin of their colleague Sunil Kumar, killed during confrontation with Chinese soldiers in the Ladakh region, as the body was brought to Jai Prakash Narayan airport, in Patna, Bihar state, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Twenty Indian troops were reportedly killed, in the clash in the Ladakh region late Monday that was the first deadly confrontation on the disputed border between India and China since 1975. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)

India cautions China over its claim to area of deadly clash

By Ashok Sharma and Emily Schmall - Associated Press