NEW DELHI: Shopkeepers, traders and labourers in India blocked railway lines and closed markets on Thursday to protest against reforms allowing in foreign retail giants such as Walmart and Tesco.
Opposition parties and trade unions called the strike after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week announced a raft of reforms designed to revive India’s slowing economy, a move that has sparked a furious backlash.
Thousands of policemen were deployed in Kolkata in West Bengal state to prevent
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