A Royal Bengal tiger has a splash to beat the scorching heat at Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad on Friday
Fever ward at District HQ Hospital in Khammam, Telangana, is overcrowded with sunstroke patients. Khammam recorded 48 degrees on Saturday.
AIADMK supporters with their families catch the sea breeze at Marina beach after Jayalalithaa's swearing in on Saturday.
AIADMK cadre hang on to umbrellas printed with the party symbol as they rush to see Jayalalithaa as she emerged on Friday after 217 days.
Crows feast on watermelons in Chennai on Monday.
A tamed elephant cools down in a river in Palakkad, Kerala last week.
A constable walks through a Puducherry street shieldling herself from the sun on Friday.
Sun glasses are bought up in Chennai.
At this vegetable wholesale market in Ahmedabad a worker rests as temperature rose above 44 degrees on Tuesday.
Pigeons caught in a dust storm at India Gate in New Delhi. The storm briefly brought down temperatures on Tuesday.