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Police in the Indian ​capital detained scores of protesters on Saturday amid patrols by thousands of security forces, with travel and telecoms links suspended, in a lockdown to stop a ‌youth protest asking the election chief to quit.The protest by the "Cockroach" youth movement, aims to draw thousands of demonstrators against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.Television images sh...

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for forgiveness and restraint on Friday after student protesters at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar targeted him with derogatory slogans during demonstrations over alleged paper leaks. The incident led to a police case against a 25-year-old woman, though Modi argued that “abuses never solve anything” and encouraged society to provide guidance rather than punishment to those who have lost their way. Modi noted that the entire world witnessed the events...