When 67-year-old Vatal Nagaraj takes to the streets, he turns every conceivable item — donkeys, commodes, vegetables, fire lamps, cattle, vehicles, footwear — into political expression. His talent for curating grounds for protest could give an inferiority complex to most activists. As leader of the Kannada Para Okkoota, a federation of pro-Kannada organisations, Nagaraj has called for a state-wide bandh on 9th September. Nagaraj called this particular bandh after the […]

NEW DELHI—A landslide triggered by torrential rains tore through a village in western India on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and leaving an estimated 150 others trapped under mud and debris, authorities said. More than 40 houses were buried when a section of hill crashed down on the village of Malin near the city of Pune at around 5 a.m. Many residents, asleep at the time, were believed entombed, […]