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Welcome to POLITICO’s 2021 Transition Playbook, your guide to the first 100 days of the Biden administration
This past weekend, Vice President
KAMALA HARRIS was all over newspapers across India.
The stories were not about the vice president or her policies, however, but about her niece,
Indo-Canadians get threat calls after questioning farmers protest on social media: Report
One of the victims claimed to have received around 100 threat calls over the past 10 days, with the suspected miscreants also allegedly throwing eggs and tomatoes at his residence.
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Members of the Indo-Canadian community who questioned the farmers protest in India received threat calls , reports said on February 8. The callers allegedly threatened them with dire consequences including sexual violence against their family members.
Most of the alleged threat calls were received following the January 26 violence. Jay, a resident of Brampton suburb in Toronto, told Hindustan Times that an unidentified caller threatened to rape his wife and daughters.
NEW DELHI — India’s agriculture minister defended new agriculture reform laws in Parliament Feb. 5, dampening hopes of a quick settlement with tens of thousands of farmers who have been