India’s New Military Recruiting Regime Sparks Protests, Turmoil

NEW DELHI–Protesters have set fireplace to buses and trains and vandalized property throughout India in a backlash towards 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, for the reason that protests erupted after the federal government introduced the modifications final week. The web has been suspended in elements of Bihar, one in all India’s poorest states the place protests have been among the many most damaging.