Tensions have flared at two of India’s best-known universities over the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his role in deadly religious riots in 2002. Police detained about a dozen students at Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi ahead of a planned screening. While students at another Delhi university said power and internet had been cut to stop them showing the film.

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