{"id":45584,"date":"2022-06-20T03:42:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jun\/19\/indian-railway-stations-on-fire-as-protests-against-military-hiring-plan-intensify-video"},"modified":"2022-06-20T03:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T18:42:16","slug":"indian-railway-stations-on-fire-as-protests-against-military-hiring-plan-intensify-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45584","title":{"rendered":"Indian railway stations on fire as protests against military hiring plan intensify \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India\u2019s<\/a> eastern state of Bihar have damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding that the government reverse course. One person was killed and more than a dozen have been injured in a series of protests against the new scheme in regions such as Chennai and Secunderabad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Agnipath scheme was designed to bring more people into the military on four-year contracts to lower the average age of India\u2019s 1.38 million-strong armed forces<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/19\/thousands-ransack-railway-station-as-protests-intensify-over-indias-military-hiring-plan\">Thousands ransack railway station as protests intensify over India\u2019s military hiring plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jun\/19\/indian-railway-stations-on-fire-as-protests-against-military-hiring-plan-intensify-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in India\u2019s eastern state of Bihar have damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding that the government reverse course. One person was killed and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-protest","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45593,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45584\/revisions\/45593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}