{"id":942655,"date":"2025-07-01T07:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942655"},"modified":"2025-07-01T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:19:21","slug":"bike-taxi-riders-launch-hunger-strike-across-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/01\/bike-taxi-riders-launch-hunger-strike-across-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike taxi riders launch hunger strike across Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Karnataka bike taxi riders have launched a state-wide hunger strike in cities including Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mandya, Davanagere and Ramanagara, demanding an immediate withdrawal of the government\u2019s ban on bike taxis. <\/p>\n<p>While riders from Bengaluru gathered at Freedom Park, thousands of their compatriots and their families in other cities said the ban has left them jobless and desperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Karnataka bike taxi riders have launched a state-wide hunger strike in cities including Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mandya, Davanagere and Ramanagara, demanding an immediate withdrawal of the government\u2019s ban on bike taxis. While riders from Bengaluru gathered at Freedom Park, thousands of their compatriots and their families in other cities said the ban has left them jobless and desperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}