India’s farmers are on the warpath again, just a few weeks before the country’s general elections. More than 20,000 farmers, riding on tractors and trucks, have been trying to head toward New Delhi since February 13, in an attempt to pressure Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government into meeting their demand for guaranteed minimum support prices … Read more
Advertisement It has been an unusually hot summer even for Kolkata, the capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Usually, the month of June is when the oppressive heat of the summer makes way for the first monsoon showers, and the city heaves a sigh of relief from the relentless heat and humidity … Read more
Advertisement After a month-long chase and a nationalist media frenzy, Amritpal Singh, a 29-year-old pro-Khalistan preacher and leader of Waris Punjab De, surrendered to police forces on April 23 in the northwestern Indian border state of Punjab. During the search for Singh, 353 Sikh youth were arrested, out of which only 10 had cases filed … Read more