Published Oct 17, 2026, 3:13 AM ET · Updated a month ago · 1 source

Modi under pressure as India’s youth protests rise to highest level in a decade

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Modi under pressure as India’s youth protests rise to highest level in a decade

Despite ⁠tens of thousands of security personnel deployed to stop them, youth protesters in India scaled barricades last ⁠week, chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with police officers trying to drag them away. “Long live the revolution,” shouted one young man before police bundled him into a bus. Street protests in India this year are likely to be higher than at any time in the past decade, the independent Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project has said, as dissent mounts...