Angry consumers blocked railroad tracks and roads and shut down businesses in several parts of India for a second day Friday, protesting an increase in fuel prices by the government.
The police detained 20 people from Shiv Sena, a powerful hard-line Hindu party, after they disrupted train services in a suburb of Mumbai, the country's financial and entertainment capital, said Ashok Singh, a railway spokesman.
The federal and state governments scrambled to contain the protests, and the Indian petroleum minister canceled a trip to Japan for the Group of 8 summit meeting, the news agency The Press Trust of India reported.
Several states lowered local sales taxes to lessen the impact of the increase in prices of gasoline, diesel and cooking gas. More...
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