Punjab internet shutdown causes concern and backlash.

Indian authorities have cut mobile internet access and text messaging for a second day across Punjab, a state of about 27 million people, as officials sought to capture a Sikh separatist and braced for potential unrest. The Khalistan movement is outlawed in India and considered a top national security threat by officials, but the movement has sympathizers across Punjab state, which is majority Sikh, and among members of the large Sikh diaspora who have settled in countries such as Canada and Britain. The statewide ban marked one of the broadest shutdowns in recent years in India, a country that has increasingly deployed the law enforcement tactic, which digital rights activists call draconian and ineffective.