{"id":61879,"date":"2024-02-13T23:43:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/feb\/13\/indian-police-fire-water-cannon-teargas-protesting-farmers-video"},"modified":"2024-02-13T23:43:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:43:14","slug":"indian-police-fire-water-cannon-and-teargas-at-protesting-farmers-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61879","title":{"rendered":"Indian police fire water cannon and teargas at protesting farmers \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police fired water cannon and teargas at farmers and their supporters who were marching to New Delhi to pressure the government to honour a 2021 promise to pay them more for crops. <\/p>\n<p>Security in the capital was tightened after farming unions from northern breadbasket states called for protests a day after talks with ministers aimed at securing minimum prices for a range of crops failed. <\/p>\n<p>The march is latest in a series of protests that began more than two years ago and comes months ahead of national elections in which Narendra Modi will seek a third term as prime minister<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/feb\/13\/indian-police-fire-water-cannon-teargas-protesting-farmers-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police fired water cannon and teargas at farmers and their supporters who were marching to New Delhi to pressure the government to honour a 2021 promise to pay them more for crops. Security in the capital was tightened after farming unions from &#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":[653,62,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming","category-india","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61879","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=61879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61911,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61879\/revisions\/61911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}