Growing unease as India curbs the Net to keep the peace


  • TECH
  • Monday, 18 Sep 2017

FILE PHOTO - Two women and a girl make their way along a street littered with rocks thrown by protestors in Srinagar as the city remains under curfew following weeks of violence in Kashmir August 19, 2016. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton/File Photo

MUMBAI: First he tried messaging friends, but WhatsApp was down. Then, the credit card readers at his clothing store weren't working. Ride-sharing apps were offline too. 

Harsh Madhok, who runs a clothing business in Jaipur, a city of three million people, had read about Internet shutdowns elsewhere in India. 

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