In Pics: India This Week

Amid the nationwide lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India this week.

Swarms of locust in the walled city of Jaipur, Rajasthan. More than half of Rajasthan’s 33 districts are affected by invasion by these crop-munching insects.

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Amid the nationwide lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India from 25-29 May.

An elderly migrant woman is offered water by a relative as they sit at Chandigarh-Punjab border, amid ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Chandigarh, on Friday, 29 May.

A woman carries water collected from a well that was refilled by the authorities with the help of a water-tanker, at Nandgaon village in Thane district, on Friday, 29 May. Almost all water sources in the region have dried up and groundwater levels have gone down owing to the summer season.

A white tigress relaxes in a pond inside its enclosure at Kamla Nehru Zoological Park, on a hot summer day in Ahmedabad, on Thursday, 28 May.

People gather at Sangam, amid nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, in Prayagraj, on Wednesday, 27 May.

A passerby quenches thirst from a roadside tap on a hot afternoon, in Jalandhar, on Wednesday, 27 May.

A railway official provides drinking water from a distance to migrants travelling by a train to their native places, during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, at a railway station in Jabalpur, on Wednesday, 27 May.

A monkey drinks water from a tap on a hot summer afternoon, at Mahamaya Temple in Jammu, on Wednesday, 27 May.

A view of a Cyclone Amphan affected area of Namkhana near the Sunderbans, in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.

Villagers use a country boat to shift from a flooded locality following heavy rainfall in Goalpara district of Assam, on Monday, 25 May. Heavy rainfall caused flooding in hundreds of villages in Lower Assam.

Swarms of locust in the walled city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Monday, 25 May. More than half of Rajasthan’s 33 districts are affected by invasion by these crop-munching insects.

Illuminated Jama Masjid on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Old Delhi, on Sunday, 24 May. Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramzan was celebrated across the country on Monday.

A mother covers her child’s head to beat the heat while waiting to board a bus to reach her native place after arriving via special train at Prayagraj Junction, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Prayagraj, on Tuesday, 26 May.