Nation reels under heat wave, temperature soars to over 46 degrees

A man tries to beat the heat by taking a bath under the tap of a water tanker Ahmadabad. Most of north India has been reeling under heat wave conditions with temperature soaring to over 46 degree Celsius. (Source: AP)

Exhausted from the sleep, an auto-rickshaw driver falls asleep in the back of his vehicle in New Delhi. (Source: AP)

A man takes bath under a train water supplying pipe at a railway station in Allahabad. (Source: AP)

In the unbeareable heat, rickshaw pullers try to catch some sleep under the shade of their own vehicles in New Delhi. (Source: AP)

People play in a water pool at Jalavihar water park on a hot summer day in Hyderabad. (Source: AP)

A vendor sleeps near earthen pots on a hot summer day in New Delhi. (Source: AP)

Boys jump into the water to cool off in Kolkata. (Source: AP)

A woman rests on a roadside pavement on a hot day in Ahmadabad. (Source: AP)