The protests against the Centre's new soldier recruitment scheme spread to different parts of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday with defence service candidates pelting stones at a government bus in Agra, and staging demonstrations in Bulandshahr and Ballia. Bulandshahr Superintendent of Police Shlok Kumar said, "Some youngsters gathered to stage protest in the morning. In Ballia, a group of around 60 …
As scores of defence job aspirants protest against the Centre's Agnipath scheme, the government has unofficially released a fact sheet on the programme to bust myths and placate the agitators. "In the coming years, recruitment of Agniveers will be around triple of the current recruitment in armed forces," it said. Many former officers of the Indian armed forces had raised …
