Police in northern India fire shots in the air and authorities shut off mobile internet in at least one district, as protests widen against a new military recruitment system.
Police in northern India have fired shots in the air to push back stone-throwing crowds, and authorities shut off mobile internet in at least one district to prevent further chaos, as protests widened against a new military recruitment system.The government's new policy aims to bring down the average age of personnel and reduce pension expenditurePrime Minister Narendra Modi's government this week announced an overhaul of recruitment for India's 1.
In northern Haryana state's Palwal district, some 50 kilometres south of the capital New Delhi, crowds hurled stones at a government official's house and police protecting the building fired shots to keep the mob at bay, according to video footage from Reuters partner ANI. Protesters in eastern India's Bihar state set a BJP office on fire in Nawada city, attacked railway infrastructure and blocked roads, as demonstrations spread across several parts of the country, police officials said.
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