In Pics: India This Week

Beyond the headlines and behind the scenes, The Quint brings you a snapshot of India from 14 to 20 March.

A passenger, wearing a mask in the wake of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, speaks to a railway official at an enquiry counter, at Bengaluru City Railway Station, Monday, 16 March 2020.

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Asha Devi, mother of the victim of the fatal 2012 gang rape on a moving bus, displays a victory sign after the rapists of her daughter were hanged in New Delhi, India, Friday, 20 March 2020.

A Kashmiri woman along with her child walks past an Indian paramilitary soldier as restrictions are imposed on the movement of people after the first person in the region was tested positive for COVID-19 in Srinagar.

A medic conducts screening of a patient as part of a precautionary measure for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, at a government run hospital in New Delhi.

A passenger, wearing a mask in the wake of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, speaks to a railway official at an enquiry counter, at Bengaluru City Railway Station, Monday, 16 March 2020.

A worker stitches masks at a manufacturing unit as demand for face masks has increased in wake of COVID-19 pandemic, in Surat, Tuesday, 17 March 2020.

Mumbai Bagh protest curtailed but continues amid coronavirus outbreak.

A family member puts a protective mask on a new-born baby in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, before being weighed at Hailate Hospital, in Kanpur, Friday, 20 March 2020.

Security personnel conducts thermal screening on a newlywed couple in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, at the entrance of Kanaka Durga temple in Vijayawada, Friday, 20 March 2020.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan, center, celebrates with party colleagues after Congress party leader Kamal Nath resigned as Chief Minister of India’s central state of Madhya Pradesh in Bhopal, India, Friday, 20 March 2020

A man distributes face masks to motorists and others to be used as a precaution against COVID-19 at a traffic intersection in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, 20 March 2020.

A municipal worker spray disinfectants as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 outside a temple in Jammu, India, Friday, 20 March 2020.

National president of Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha Swami Chakrapani Maharaj drinks cow urine during an event organized by a Hindu religious group to promote consumption of cow urine as a cure for the new coronavirus in New Delhi, India, Saturday, 14 March 2020.

A security guard wearing a mask as a precaution against the new coronavirus stands at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, in Mumbai, India, Monday, 16 March 2020.