India blocks over 100 speakers from opposition democracy summit

In brief

NEW DELHI: India blocked more than 100 international speakers from attending a democracy summit organized by the opposition Congress party, a senior opposition politician said on Friday. Those denied visas included a Norwegian journalist who had previously questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi about press freedom. Shashi Tharoor, a Congress MP and former senior United Nations official, said 115 of the 315 speakers…