Border Strife Triggers Food Hoarding, Canceled Trips in India
Citizens across towns in Punjab in India, such as Pathankot, Amritsar and Chandigarh, are seeing such panic buying. Gagandeep Madan, a 42-year-old who owns a 'kirana' shop — a mom-and-pop store — about 9 miles short of the Attari-Wagah border near Amritsar in Punjab, said almost all shops in the area, including his, had run out of food essentials on Wednesday.
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