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India PM overturns court ban on bull-wrestling
10 years agoIndian protesters shout slogans beside bulls during a demonstration against the ban on the Jallikattu bull taming ritual in Chennai on January 20, 2017. Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused January 19, to overturn a Supreme Court ban on a festival featuring young men wrestling with bulls that has brought thousands onto the streets of southern India to protest. Residents of the southern state of Tamil Nadu say the Jallikattu festival is a crucial part of their culture and are demanding the ban be lifted. ARUN SANKAR / AFP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has overturned a Supreme Court ban on a bull-wrestling festival that fuelled massive protests in southern India by demonstrators who called it an attack on their culture.