GUWAHATI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrived in restive Manipur on Thursday to a montage of drama, confrontation and political bickering — police barricading a highway in Bishnupur to keep him from travelling by road to Churachandpur, women activists taking them on in a bid to clear the way for his convoy, and a sprinkling of protesters showing placards asking him to “go back”.A reluctant Rahul took a chopper to Churachandpur after the stand-off in Bishnupur culminated in cops using tear gas to disperse the throng of women questioning if the administration had “anything to hide”. A member of the security…
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Receive free Google LLC updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Google LLC news every morning. Google said it would shut down its Google News service in Canada and block links to news in its search engine in the country, following passage of a law that would force it to pay Canadian publishers for links to news. The move comes after last week’s declaration by Meta that it would follow through on its promise to block links to news on its Facebook and Instagram in Canada, threatening a showdown with the Canadian government. Canadian…