Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left Parliament as student protesters reached the Parliament Street barricades in New Delhi, escalating one of the country's biggest anti-government demonstrations in recent years.

Anti-government protests have intensified in New Delhi, with demonstrators pushing close to India's Parliament despite a heavy security deployment.
Parliament security shut all gates as thousands of protesters demanding jobs, accountability and government reforms attempted to march to the complex.
Police responded with barricades, tear gas and arrests as tensions escalated in one of the biggest protests against the government in recent years.