India protests surge to decade high as Modi faces youth backlash

Youth protesters in India scaled barricades last week, chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with police officers trying to drag them away, despite tens of thousands of security personnel deployed to stop them. "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 (ACLED) has said, as dissent mounts against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.