Students Protest, Halt Trains in North India
From Reuters
GAUHATI, India — Protesting students blocked railway lines throughout Assam on Friday, bringing traffic to a halt and stranding thousands of travelers in the northeast Indian state, rail officials said.
The militant Assam Nationalist Youth and Student Front called the 24-hour blockade to press their demand for implementation of an agreement made with the central government in August, 1985.
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