India's top court on Monday upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to strip disputed Jammu and Kashmir's special status as a semi-autonomous region with a separate constitution and inherited protections on land and jobs.
Manipur, a sparsely-populated state in eastern India, is reeling from ethnic violence affecting tens of thousands of people. Amid the ongoing unrest, the state has remained under a government-authorized internet shutdown for more than a month, leaving diaspora communities in Canada scrambling to reach families back home.
As India hosts a G20 summit on tourism in Kashmir, the country is keen to project an image of stability and peace in the part of the region it controls. But on the ground, CBC's India correspondent Salima Shivji hears a simmering anger from Kashmiris unable to speak openly, fearing retribution from security services.