<p style="text-align:start;" size="0" _root="undefined" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false"><span style="color:#000000">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of his government's controversial farming laws that sparked year-long protests from tens of thousands of farmers across the country and threatened to hurt the governing Bharatiya Janata Party in upcoming state elections.</span></p><p style="text-align:start;text-indent:2em;"></p>