Happy New Year: How India and the rest of the world embraced 2016

People release balloons to celebrate the New Year with Tokyo Tower in the background in Tokyo, early Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. Japan celebrated the start of 2016, the Year of the Monkey in the Japanese Zodiac. (AP Photo)

People walk next to a giant Christmas ball installed in Octyabrskaya Square and decorated to mark the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo)

Mumbai: Students sitting in a formation that reads 'Welcome 2016' ahead of New Year celebrations at a school in on Wednesday. PTI Photo (PTI12_30_2015_000096B)

A girl lights up candles near a sand art at Juhu beach in Mumbai to mark the New Year 2016 celebration. (Express photo by Dilip Khagda)

People gathered to celebrate the last evening of the year 2015 and to welcome the New Year 2016 at Juhu, Mumbai. (Express photo by Dilip Khagda)

Mumbai : Girls take selfie with placards welcoming the New Year 2016, at Worli seaface, in Mumbai on Thursday (PTI Photo))

Filipino Catholic devotees jostle to get closer to the image of the Black Nazarene during a thanksgiving procession on New Year's eve in Manila, Philippines, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. The procession was held on New Year's eve amidst heightened alert by the Philippine National Police for the Yuletide season. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a 25ft high Sand Calendar with message 'Year of Love and Peace, 2016' at Puri beach on Thursday. (PTI Photo)

Ahmedabad: School children release balloons to welcome the New Year 2016 in Ahmedabad on Thursday. (PTI Photo)

Police and security personnel during security briefing before the start of New Year celebrations in Mumbai on Thursday. (Express photo by Dilip Khagda)

People watch fireworks next to tractors of Minsk Tractor Plant decorated to mark the upcoming New Year celebrations during a show in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Fireworks explode over the Opera House during a pre-New Years Eve fireworks display over the Harbour Bridge and Opera House in Sydney, Australian, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015.(AP Photo))

Tourists take pictures during the last sunset of the year 2015 at the Arabian Sea at Marine Drive in Mumbai on Thursday. (Express photo by Dilip Khagda)

People watch as tractors of Minsk Tractor Plants decorated to mark the upcoming New Year celebrations stand prior to a show in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Fireworks explode over the Opera House and Harbour Bridge during pre-New Year's Eve fireworks display in Sydney, Australian, Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. (AP Photo)

Fireworks explode Harbour Bridge during the 9pm fireworks display over the Harbour Bridge and Opera House in Sydney, Australian, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo)

Shimla: Tourists enjoy and welcome the New Year 2016 at Kufri near Shimla on Thursday. PTI Photo (PTI12_31_2015_000163A)

Workers push a 2016 countdown clock into position during a rehearsal for a New Year's Eve countdown celebration at the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. At 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, China will ring in 2016 ahead of much of the rest of the world on Thursday night. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Jodhpur: Students of an institute welcoming the New Year ‘2016’ in Jodhpur on Thursday. (PTI Photo)

A woman prays in front of lanterns to celebrate the new year at Chogye Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Young people take a selfie in front of decorations for New Year celebration in Tverskaya street in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Shoppers who look for ingredients for “osechi” or Japanese traditional New Year dishes, look at seafoods at a fish store near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Youngsters dance on Ridge during New Year Celebrations in Shimla on Thursday. (Express photo by Lalit Kumar)

Runa Kimura, a 18-year-old employee of Kyugetsu, a Japanese traditional doll company, pauses during a special "hagoita" battledores launching in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. The wooden racquets are adorned with images based on persons of the year. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tourists watch a street dance performance at Trocadero next to the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. France strengthens security measures ahead of unusually tense New Year's Eve celebrations in Paris after November attacks that left 130 dead and hundreds injured. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Karad: Girl students sitting in a formation that reads 'Welcome 2016' on the eve of New Year celebrations in Karad, Maharashtra on Thursday. PTI Photo (PTI12_31_2015_000053B)

Amritsar: A local artist makes a model of 2016 using vegetables on eve of New Year in Amritsar on Thursday. PTI Photo (PTI12_31_2015_000123A)

Guwahati: Girls browsing greeting cards at a shop on the eve of New Year in Guwahati on Thursday. PTI Photo (PTI12_31_2015_000162A)