Ambala

On Tuesday, visuals from the Ambala city, north of the capital, showed thick clouds of tear gas.

At one such event, over 500 students gathered recently to explore opportunities with over 40 universities from Australia and Canada at a luxury hotel in Chandigarh, about 40 km from Ambala.

Every year, Ambala, a British colonial-era army cantonment, has typically drawn hundreds of youth into the military with the prospect of lifetime employment.

In 1917, Ganga Ram tried to pass a resolution on widow re-marriage at a religious Hindu conference in the province's Ambala city.

The 27-year-old's celebrations, earlier this month, made headlines in her home town Ambala, in the northern Indian state of Haryana.