
Indian farmers forced Modi to back down on new laws. So why aren't they going home?
CNN
Santosh Singh's earliest memory is of tilling soil on his family's farm. Now, the 70-year-old farmer's eyes gleam with pride as he recalls watching his grandson do the same.
But Singh hasn't been home to Punjab for one year since he joined farmers at one of three protest sites in the Indian capital to campaign against new farming laws they claimed would leave them open to exploitation.
"When I first came here, I thought I'd be here for 15, maybe 20 days, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made one whole year go by," said Singh, as he sipped his morning tea, surrounded by young protesters, at a campsite in Singhu on Delhi's outskirts.

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The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday, according to two sources with direct knowledge of his congressional briefings.











