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Indian police detain members of Centre of Indian Trade Unions protesting against the visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to India, in Hyderabad, India, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. India poured on the pageantry with a joyful, colorful welcome for President Donald Trump who on Monday kicked off a whirlwind 36-hour visit that emphasizes pageantry over policy and a mega-rally to reaffirm U.S.-India ties while providing enviable overseas imagery for a president in a re-election year. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Protests, prayers in Indian capital ahead of Trump’s visit

By RISHI LEKHI and ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive for a &quot;Namaste Trump,&quot; event at Sardar Patel Stadium, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in Ahmedabad, India. After Air Force One touched down in Ahmedabad in western India, Trump's motorcade slowly drove down streets lined with hundreds of thousands of onlookers. He began that day's high-wattage trio of presidential photo-ops: a visit to a former home of independence leader Mohandas Gandhi, a rally at a huge cricket stadium and a trip to the famed Taj Mahal. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s India visit prioritizes pageantry over policy

By JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, with first lady Melania Trump, wave as they walk to board Air Force One during departure, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Trump is traveling to India. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump heads to India for Narendra Modi visit

By Dave Boyer and Siddhant Mohan - The Washington Times

Supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party, or &quot;common man's&quot; party, celebrate as initial results show the party in the lead, at their party office in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. The polls put Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party against the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party, whose pro-poor policies have focused on fixing state-run schools and providing free health care and bus fares for women during the five years in power. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Stunning defeat for Modi’s party in New Delhi elections

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2020, file photo, an Indian student holds a placard during a protest against a new citizenship law in front of India Gate war memorial, in New Delhi, India. Campaigning for a crucial state election in India's capital has reached a fever pitch as members of the Hindu nationalist-led government call for violence against minority Muslims and invoke the specter of arch-nemesis Pakistan to reverse course after a pair of losses in recent state polls. The Delhi election on Feb. 8 has been seen as a referendum on the ruling party's response to nearly two months of protests across India against a new citizenship law that fast-tracks naturalization for some migrants of neighboring countries living in the country illegally of all South Asia's major religions except Islam. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

New Delhi votes with Modi’s popularity on the line

By ASHOK SHARMA and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, photo, a supporter of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holds a mace, used as a weapon by Hindu god Hanuman, as he shouts slogans during an election campaign rally for the upcoming Delhi elections in New Delhi, India. Campaigning for a crucial state election in India's capital has reached a fever pitch as members of the Hindu nationalist-led government call for violence against minority Muslims and invoke the specter of arch-nemesis Pakistan to reverse course after a pair of losses in recent state polls. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Poll pitch for India’s capital plays up growing divisions

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Indian Muslims offer prayers, as activists of Bhim Army wait for the start of a protest against a new Citizenship law, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Protests against India's citizenship law that excludes Muslim immigrants continue in Indian cities in an unabating strong show of dissent against the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The protest at a 17th century mosque, Jama Masjid, was led by Chandrashekhar Azad, leader of the Bhim Army, a political party of Dalits who represent Hinduism's lowest caste. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Protests against citizenship law continue unabated in India

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

In this photograph taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, protesters hold flowers as tear gas fired by police rises at a demonstration in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, to remember victims of a Ukrainian airplane shot down by an Iranian missile. On Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, online videos purported to show that Iranian security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner. (AP Photo)

Iran warns Europe as diplomat says officials ‘lied’ on crash

By Nasser Karmi, Jon Gambrell and Emily Schmall - Associated Press

Indian army soldiers guard on top of their armored vehicle as a convoy of New Delhi-based diplomats passes through Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. Envoys from 15 countries including the United States are visiting Indian-controlled Kashmir starting Thursday for two days, the first by New Delhi-based diplomats since India stripped the region of its semi-autonomous status and imposed a harsh crackdown in early August. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

India takes envoys from 15 countries to visit Kashmir

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

India sets 2012 gang rape convicts’ executions for Jan. 22

Associated Press

In this late Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, photo, police arrive outside the Jawaharlal Nehru University after masked assailants beat students and teachers with sticks in New Delhi, India. More than 20 people were injured in the attack opposition lawmakers are trying to link to the government. (AP Photo)

Attackers beat protesting students at Indian university

By Emily Schmall and Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

Smoke rises after a factory caught fire and collapsed in Peera Garhi area in western New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. Several people, including some fire officials were injured. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Battery factory collapses in fire in New Delhi, killing 1

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Passengers wait for trains in the morning fog in New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. The Indian capital which is witnessing the longest spell of cold weather in the last 22 years, woke up to a blanket of dense fog disrupting rail, road and air traffic adversely. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

North India prepares for New Year’s enveloped in cold smog

Associated Press

Journalists participate in a protest against attacks on fraternity members while covering protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to India's streets to call for the revocation of the law, which critics say is the latest effort by Narendra Modi's government to marginalize the country's 200 million Muslims. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

India clamps down on marches, internet after deadly protests

Associated Press

Students shout slogans against government during a protest against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Hundreds of students marched Tuesday through the streets of New Delhi to Jantar Mantar, an area designated for protests near Parliament, against the new citizenship law, that allows Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities who are in India illegally to become citizens if they can show they were persecuted because of their religion in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It does not apply to Muslims. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Narendra Modi India citizenship law sparks protests

By Siddhant Mohan - Special to The Washington Times

People gather around a warehouse where a fire broke out in the early hours of Monday at Kirari area of New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec.23, 2019. The blaze killed 9 people and left at least 3 injured, a fire official said. (AP Photo)

Fire at warehouse in India’s capital kills 9

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Activists of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) participate in a procession urging for peace after violence broke out in several parts of the country during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, in Nalbari, India, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day Friday and cut internet services to try to stop growing protests against a new citizenship law that have left 11 people dead and more than 4,000 others detained. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

India suspends internet and phone services to quell protests

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Indians throw stones on police vehicles during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. Police detained several hundred protesters in some of India's biggest cities Thursday as they defied a ban on assembly that authorities imposed to stop widespread demonstrations against a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens the country's secular democracy. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Amid citizenship law outcry, Indian authorities ban protest

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Indian students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University hold placards as they march during a protest against a new citizenship law, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed hearing pleas challenging the constitutionality of the new citizenship law that has sparked opposition and massive protests across the country. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

1,200 detained in India amid ban on citizenship law protests

By EMILY SCHMALL and ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

In India, another alleged rape victim dies after burn attack

By CHONCHUI NGASHANGVA - Associated Press