India's Modi battles opposition to key land reform

By Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Opposition parties boycotted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's latest attempt to build consensus around a business-friendly land bill on Wednesday, boding badly for his ambitious agenda of economic reform in a parliament session that starts next week. Almost half of India's 31 chief ministers spurned Modi's invitation to meet him in New Delhi to discuss the proposal to make it easier to buy farmland for development. Modi has made the reform