Inside India: May 26, 2016

A policeman uses a baton to disperse demonstrators during a protest by government employees demanding their long pending arrears in Srinagar. Danish Ismail / Reuters

A young boy plays badminton in a slum area of Kolkata. Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters

Flowers and money are placed by the villagers near the carcass of an Asiatic elephant before being buried in Sakrapani village in South Kamrup district of Assam state. According to local villagers the male elephant had an encounter a few weeks before when he entered their village in search of food. The elephant died because of its injuries. EPA

Women fill water containers from an underground tank beside closed shops on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Amit Dave / Reuters

People are caught in a dust storm in New Delhi. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters

A homeless girl swings her sister in a hammock along the roadside in Bangalore. Jagadeesh NV / EPA

A man rests on a steel cantilever, supporting a bridge, on river Sabarmati in a hot day in Ahmadabad. Ajit Solanki / AP Photo

A woman is pictured through a bullet hole in a tin sheet in Lalhar, south of Srinagar. Danish Ismail / Reuters

A Kashmiri family look out from the window of their house near the site of a gunbattle in Srinagar. Mukhtar Khan / AP Photo

Members of Durga Vahini, the women's wing of hardline Vishwa Hindu Parishad, show their self-defence skills at the concluding ceremony of a weeklong women's training camp on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Amit Dave / Reuters

A homeless girl sleeps in a hammock along the roadside in Bangalore. Jagadeesh NV / EPA

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