NEW DELHI -- With national elections just around the corner, a political row has erupted in India over a tiny, uninhabited island ceded to neighboring Sri Lanka half a century ago.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- eyeing a third straight term -- is reaching back into history to land a blow against the embattled opposition and Congress party which had agreed to hand control of the then-disputed Katchatheevu island to Colombo in 1974.
