Gorakhpur residents sleep on streets for LPG cylinders amid severe shortage
Residents in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur are facing a severe shortage of LPG cylinders, forcing them to spend entire nights sleeping on roadsides to secure a refill.
Did PM Modi give PM Trudeau the cold shoulder?
New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 19, 2018 21:36 IST
It's been two days now that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family have been in India on their first state visit. But if the cold reception they have been accorded so far is any indication, it is clear the government has made its discomfort with what has been Trudeau's less-than-ambiguous support for the Khalistan movement clear.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose foreign policy is marked by an emphasis on forming a personal bond with global leaders and who is known to have walked (or driven) the extra mile to personally receive them when they come to India, gave Trudeau a massive snub by sending a junior minister to receive him.
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