Protesters stage mock funerals over India's $87 billion river-linking plan

Hundreds of tribal residents along India's Ken River are voicing anger over an $87 billion government project to link some 30 rivers nationwide, which has been decades in the making but only gathered momentum in recent years, championed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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