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- 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…
- Hyderabad
Agnipath scheme: Violent protest breaks out at Secunderabad Railway Station
Hyderabad: Violent protest broke out at Secunderabad Railway Station on Friday against the Central government’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in the armed forces. The situation on the first three platforms became tense…
- 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…
- India
Why #ModiMustResign is trending on Twitter?
New Delhi: A hashtag ‘#ModiMustResign’ that began on Thursday is still trending on Twitter. The hashtag first began over Sri Lanka-Adani issue. Now, the netizens are slamming the government over the Agnipath…
- India
Countrywide stir needed to stall Agnipath scheme: Tikait
Haridwar: Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday opposed the Centre’s “Agnipath” scheme for recruitment to the armed forces, saying a countrywide movement is needed to stall it. On farmers’ issues,…
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Hyderabad: Congress leaders booked for protest at Khairtabad
Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president Revanth Reddy and other congress members were on Thursday booked by the Panjagutta police for protesting against the ongoing ED case involving senior Congress leader…
- Photos
In Pics: Protest against Agnipath scheme
Chapra: Smoke billows out after youngsters set on fire a train in protest against the ‘Agnipath’ scheme at Chapra railway station, in Saran district, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (PTI Photo) Kaimur: Youngsters…
- India
UP Police steps up security, holds meetings with religious leaders ahead of Friday prayers
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police has stepped up security and held meetings with religious leaders ahead of Friday prayers, days after violence rocked parts of the state over now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur…
- India
Protests in parts of Rajasthan against Centre’s Agnipath scheme
Jaipur: Scores of defence job aspirants led by the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) staged protests in several parts of Rajasthan on Thursday against the Centre’s Agnipath scheme for four-year contractual recruitment in…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: Congress leaders held for protesting in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: The Karnataka police on Thursday stopped Congress leaders from carrying out the ‘Raj Bhavan Chalo’ agitation. The protest was organised to condemn the Enforcement Directorate’s interrogation of former Congress president Rahul…
- India
Appeal: Help kin of Mudassir who died during protest against remarks on Prophet
Ranchi: A 16-year-old boy Mohammad Mudassir Alam on Friday succumbed to gunshot wounds during protests in Ranchi against controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammed by Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal. Father of Mudassir,…
- India
Agnipath scheme: Army aspirants jam Delhi-Jaipur Expressway in protest
Gurugram: Hundreds of Army aspirants on Thursday blocked the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway in Gurugram’s Bilaspur area in protest against Agnipath yojna, the government’s new scheme for short-term recruitment into the armed forces. The…
