India cuts Internet near Delhi as hundreds of farmers begin hunger strike


Farmers listeninh to a speaker during a protest against the farm laws at Singhu border near New Delhi, India, on Saturday (Jany 30, 2021). - Reuters

SINGHU, India, Jan 30 (Reuters): India blocked mobile internet services in several areas around New Delhi on Saturday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured.

Angry at new agricultural laws that they say benefit large private food buyers at the expense of producers, tens of thousands of farmers have been camped at protest sites on the outskirts of the capital for more than two months.

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