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  2. A man wearing a white t-shirt with spectacles looks into the camera.

  3. Sonam and Raja Raghuvanshi pictured in traditional Indian attire at their wedding

  4. The wreckage of a burnt bus is pictured along a street after recent violence in Imphal in the Indian state of Manipur on June 8, 2025

  5. Brian and Melvyn wear hats and backpacks while standing next to each other.

  6. Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), Indian politician and daughter of Nehru. She was assassinated in 1984 by members of her Sikh bodyguard. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

  7. Leading Indian artist M.F Husain poses in front of one of his paintings in Raan bar at the O2 Arena on July 3, 2007 in London, England. Raan a new indian restaurant set up at the O2 Arena boasts three of Husain's latest paintings. Now in his 80s Husain continues to paint prolifically and his paintings have sold for millions. This particular painting depicts Mother Theresa showing her taking care of children. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

  8. A view of the main mosque in Mecca in a portrait taken in early 20th Century likely from Fort Jiyad, which was demolished in 2002.

  9. Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, speaks during a news conference at Parliament House in New Delhi, India, on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. Modi said the upcoming budget will provide energy and confidence to the country as it moves toward achieving its goal of becoming a developed nation by 2047.

  10. Sunil and Priya Rastogi are hugging in a restaurant and smiling at the camera. Sunil is holding up a rose to the camera.

  11. A view of newly constructed Chenab Bridge, World's highest Rail arch bridge of Indian Railways on Udampur- Srinagar-Baramulla-Rail link project during its media preview in Reasi district, on March 26, 2023 in Katra, India.

  12. A man sells vegetables in a shop at a market in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on February 28, 2025, ahead of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.

  13. Family members of a victim who died during the stampede outside the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium grieve in front of her body at their residence in the Yelahanka locality in Bengaluru on June 5, 2025. Virat Kohli said he was lost for words after celebrations of a dream IPL title turned to tragedy when 11 mainly young cricket fans were crushed to death in Bengaluru. Hundreds of thousands had packed the streets on June 4 to welcome home their hero Kohli and the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) after they had beaten Punjab Kings a day earlier in a thrilling Indian Premier League final. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

  14. A worker holding US dollars banknotes poses for a photograph at a money exchange outlet in New Delhi on April 3, 2025. US President Donald Trump ignited a potentially ruinous global trade war on April 2 as he slapped 10 percent tariffs on imports from around the world and harsh extra levies on key trading partners. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) (Photo by ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images) INDIA-US-ECONOMY-TRADE-TARIFF

  15. Ambulance outside Chinnaswamy Stadium

  16. Patna District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh looking at enumerator staff who collect information from residents for a caste-based census in Bihar after Patna High Court rejected a petition against the survey, at Phulwari Sharif on August 2, 2023 in Patna, India.

  17. People walk past shoes left behind following a stampede outside a cricket stadium in Bengaluru, India, June 4, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

  18. An oil painting of Mahatma Gandhi where he has a white cloth draped around his torso and is wearing round glasses

  19. A woman wearing an orange saree looks into the camera

  20. An ambulance transports stampede victims near Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru

  21. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla

  22. Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Virat Kohli, along with his former team-mates AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle, celebrates with the trophy after winning the Indian Premier League.

  23. Members of Maitree Womens Rights Organization protest against the remission of life sentences for those convicted in the Bilkis Bano rape trial on August 24, 2022 in Kolkata, India.

  24. Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany