Gujarat

India’s western state of Gujarat has changed the name of a locally-grown variety of dragon fruit to “lotus” fruit to avoid the original name’s association with China, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Wednesday.

Police in Gujarat, India, arrested a journalist and charged him with sedition this week for publishing a story suggesting that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) officials were planning to oust the state’s Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani, over his lackluster response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.