India’s New Military Recruiting Regime Sparks Protests, Turmoil

NEW DELHI–Protesters have set hearth to buses and trains and vandalized property throughout India in a backlash in opposition to a brand new recruiting system that the authorities says will remodel the nation’s navy.

Security has been tightened in a number of states in current days, because the protests erupted after the federal government introduced the adjustments final week. The web has been suspended in components of Bihar, one among India’s poorest states the place protests have been among the many most damaging.