US watchdog drops India from list of 'free' nations
India has been dropped from a list of “free” countries drawn up by an 80-year-old democracy watchdog mostly funded by the US government. Freedom House has placed India in the “partly free” category in its latest report that carries the observation that the free world had shrunk as a result and that the country was being driven towards “authoritarianism”. Freedom House is a Washington-based non-profit, non-government organisation that has been conducting research and advocacy on democracy...