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- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Protest erupts over Agnipath scheme at Osmania University
Hyderabad: Osmania University (OU) students protested in front of the NCC gate on Saturday afternoon, demanding the centre’s Agnipath scheme be cancelled. Around 30 students from the Vidyarthi Jana Samithi (VJS) and…
- Bangalore
Anti-Agnipath protests reach Karnataka, 30 arrested
Bengaluru: Protests against ‘Agnipath’, the Centre’s ambitious scheme for short-term recruitment into the armed forces, erupted in several parts of Belagavi and Dharwad districts in Karnataka on Saturday, forcing the police to…
- India
Agnipath scheme announced after wide-ranging consultations: Rajnath
New Delhi: As protests against the ‘Agnipath’ scheme widens, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday strongly defended the new military recruitment model saying it was announced after wide-ranging consultations including with the…
- India
Anti-Agnipath agitation: Massive protest rally in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: The ongoing anti-Agnipath agitations in various parts of the country on Saturday sparked another form of protest in Kerala as hundreds of youths took out huge protest rallies in Thiruvananthapuram and…
- India
Selection process by IAF under Agnipath scheme to begin on June 24: IAF chief
New Delhi: The selection process by the Indian Air Force for recruitment under the Agnipath scheme will start from June 24, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari said on…
- India
Agnipath Row: Protests erupt at several places in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: Protests against the Centre’s Agnipath scheme spread to Odisha on Friday as hundreds of aspirants for recruitment in the Armed Forces blocked the arterial Ring Road in Cuttack and tore down…
- India
Agnipath protests: Sec 144 imposed in Gurugram as precautionary measure
Gurugram: The Gurugram district administration has imposed Section 144 as a precautionary measure even though no fresh protest was reported here on Friday against the Centre’s Agnipath scheme to recruit soldiers. Deputy…
- India
MP: Protests over Agnipath turn violent in Indore, 15 held
Indore: Protests over the Centre’s Agnipath recruitment scheme turned violent in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore on Friday morning after hundreds of protesters gathered on tracks near a railway station in the city and…
- India
Agnipath row: Buses vandalised, stones pelted in UP districts
Lucknow: Roadways buses were vandalised in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad on Friday as mobs protesting against the ‘Agnipath’ scheme went on rampage. Youths protesting against the short-term contract scheme in armed forces, pelted…
- India
UP: Protesters prevented from occupying rail tracks in Ballia
Ballia: The Ballia police, on Friday morning, thwarted attempts of some local youth who wanted to protest on the railway tracks against the ‘Agnipath’ scheme for short-term recruitment in the armed forces. District…