{"id":37579,"date":"2026-08-11T01:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37579"},"modified":"2026-08-11T01:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:04:47","slug":"police-in-india-use-tear-gas-water-cannons-on-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37579","title":{"rendered":"Police in India use tear gas, water cannons on demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnph.upi.com\/ph\/st\/th\/8501786389662\/2026\/upi_com\/6301c6889fc36999dcc696e084566d62\/v1.5\/Police-in-India-use-tear-gas-water-cannons-on-demonstrators.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Police officers gesture to protesters taking part in a demonstration demanding Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren&#8217;s resignation and a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into alleged paper leaks in recruitment examinations, in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India on Monday. Photo by Jesh Kumar\/EPA<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Aug. 10 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Police in Jharkhand, India used tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators who were demanding investigations into recruitment for government jobs on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of protesters were met with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/10\/indian-police-use-force-to-disperse-youth-protesters-calling-for-exam-overhaul\" target=\"_blank\">police wielding batons<\/a> as they marched to the state legislature building. Protesters pushed past some police barricades and there were injuries on both sides.\n<\/p>\n<p>The protest was sparked by allegations of irregularities in recruitment drives for government jobs. Protesters called for India&#8217;s Central Bureau of Investigations to probe the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Young adults in Jharkhand, the poorest state in India, have taken to the streets in an outcry over allegations that they are not being given a fair chance to compete for highly coveted government roles.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators say there have been grading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/10\/world\/asia\/police-india-protest-jharkhand-jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\">errors and financial irregularities<\/a> in recruitment exams. They have also called for the cancellation of three recruitment exams, which the Jharkhand government agreed to on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a political party in the state, also agreed to speed up the investigations that demonstrators asked for.<\/p>\n<p>Government jobs are highly sought after in India. Recruitment for job listings can result in hundreds of thousands of applications for 500 to around 2,000 openings.\n<\/p>\n<p>One recruitment push for 2,025 jobs received about 640,000 applications. Another drive for 510 jobs received 322,000 applications.<\/p>\n<p>In May, India scrapped the results of its medical college-entrance exam, a test that requires students to spend years studying. The exam was scrapped after its question papers were leaked, which has happened multiple times throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>In July, protests erupted in the capital city New Delhi with demonstrators marching on Parliament and calling for the resignation of India&#8217;s top education chief. 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Photo by Jesh Kumar\/EPA Aug. 10 (UPI) &#8212; Police in Jharkhand, India used tear gas and water cannons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdnph.upi.com\/sv\/ph\/og\/upi_com\/8501786389662\/2026\/1\/6301c6889fc36999dcc696e084566d62\/v1.5\/Police-in-India-use-tear-gas-water-cannons-on-demonstrators.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}