India Today Insight's top photos for May 2022

Defence employees perform yoga at a countdown event for International Day of Yoga (June 21), at the DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi on May 31. Photo by Atul Yadav / PTI

Vehicles bear the brunt of trees uprooted in the heavy rains that hit Delhi on May 30. (PTI Photo)

A drone-ambulance manufactured by Indian firm Raphe mPhibr on display at the Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022 in New Delhi on May 27. The drone is meant to evacuate injured military personnel from places where helicopters cannot reach. Photo by Prakash Singh / AFP

Girls take part in a ‘self-defence’ training camp organised by Durga Vahini, the women’s wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, in Bhopal on May 26. (ANI photo)

Police personnel inside Guwahati’s Gitanagar police station flooded by rain water on May 25. (ANI photo)

Residents of Lucknow enjoy a rainy day on May 23. Strong winds accompanied by rain brought respite from the heat wave to the city. (PTI Photo)

Cooking gas cylinders being ferried through flood waters in Nagaon district of Assam on May 22. (ANI Photo)

Train coaches are seen toppled over following mudslides triggered by heavy rains at New Haflong railway station on the Lumding-Silchar route at Dima Hasao district, in northeastern Assam on May 16. (AP Photo)

Police use a water canon to disperse activists of the ABVP students wing of the BJP during a protest against West Bengal's state government over alleged irregularities in the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) recruitment process in Kolkata, on May 18. Photo by Dibyangshu Srkar/ AFP

Workers wave during the launch of the second advanced stealth frigate warship under Project 17A named Udaygiri at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) in Mumbai, on May 17. Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/ REUTERS

Farmers pray for rain during the 'Manda Puja' festival outside a Shiva temple on the outskirts of Ranchi on May 16. (PTI Photo)

The district administration of Cachar in Assam begins acquiring land for a green field airport on May 12. (ANI Photo)

Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh during a promotional event for his upcoming film 'Jayeshbhai Jordar', in Ahmedabad, on May 11. (PTI Photo)

The Indian Coast Guard rescued 11 crew members of a distressed boat off Gopalpur in the wake of cyclonic storm Asani in Odisha’s Ganjam district on May 9. (ANI Photo)

The Wait For Water: Women queue up with vessels to collect drinking water from a tubewell outside a temple in Ahmedabad on May 9. (PTI Photo)

Villagers in Qazigund in J&K’s Kulgam district fish with wicker baskets in the Panzath Nag spring on May 8 during an annual festival. Hundreds of people from several villages collectively go fishing to rid the spring of weeds and silt. Photo by S. Irfan/ PTI

11,000 mangoes offered to Lord Ganesha on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya organised by Shrimant Dagdusheth Halwai Public Ganpati Trust and Suvarnayug Tarun Mandal, in Pune, on May 4. (ANI Photo)

Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers at a football ground to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Mumbai on May 3. Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/ REUTERS

Indians shop ahead of Eid al-Fitr in front of Mecca Mosque in Hyderabad, on May 2. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./ AP