Tag: Agitation

Bhubaneswar: With less than twelve hours to go for the traders’ scheduled stir against the State government’s ‘additional VAT’ on pulses to begin, the Odisha government on Thursday decided to procure essential commodities through e-marketing while urging the traders to call off their agitation. “To tackle the situation, we have decided to begin talks with […]

Bhubaneswar: Block Grant teachers of Odisha on Monday accused the State government of not keeping its words on the withdrawal of Block Grant system and asked it to make public the steps taken by the Ministerial Committee formed to look into the matter. Holding placards, nearly five hundred teachers under the banner of School Teachers […]

Bolangir: Intensifying their agitation for the third consecutive day demanding establishment of a permanent bench of Orissa High Court here, lawyers today stopped the district collector from entering his office. According to sources, district collector Arindam Dakua was scheduled to attend a video conference with Chief Secretary AP Padhi today but he had to return […]

Bhubaneswar: With farmer protests and agricultural distress becoming a major game changer in three Hindi heartland States of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, all three major political parties in Odisha now seem to be chalking out plans to garner votes of farmers in the State. But with the State government already on the firing line […]

Nayagarh: The Nayagarh Collectorate turned into a battle ground today after a violent clash between agitators and police. Some people were staging a dharna at the collectorate alleging deliberate attempts by local administration to harass Laxmiprasad sarpanch Soumya Ranjan Pradhan. Hundreds of men and women were staging protest and latter tried to enter the collectorate […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police Havildar-Constable-Sepoy association has threatened to launch a cease-work stir if their demands are not fulfilled by tonight. According to sources, the members of the association will be wearing black badges tomorrow and will hand over their responsibilities by evening following which they will launch cease-work stir from Friday if their demands are […]

Cuttack: Lawyers from across the State have called for a two-day strike from February 11 to press for their long-standing demands including better infrastructural facilities for Courts and budgetary allocation for financial protection, stipend and insurance cover for them and their families. State Bar Council Chairman Tahali Charan Mohanty informed that members of different bar […]

Cuttack: Lawyers from across the State have called for a two-day strike from February 11 to press for their long-standing demands including better infrastructural facilities for Courts and budgetary allocation for financial protection, stipend and insurance cover for them and their families. State Bar Council Chairman Tahali Charan Mohanty informed that members of different bar […]

Bhubaneswar/Delhi: The countrywide agitation by doctors against National Medical Commission Bill, which was passed yesterday in the Upper House of the Parliament, is slowly gaining momentum with doctors and medical students in Odisha threatening to join the stir soon. The Rajya Sabha passed the NMC Bill for replacing the corruption-plagued MCI with a new body, […]

Puri: Protesting media report citing illness of Namita Sahoo, wife of former Congress leader Lulu Mohapatra, members of BJP and Lulu Sena today staged agitation by burning effigy of former Brahmagiri BJD MLA Sanjay Das Burma. As per reports, hundreds of protesters joined the agitation near Brahmagiri bus stand demanding action against the concerned staff […]

Puri: Protesting eviction of prawn enclosures, local residents in Chilika today staged a demonstration and gheraoed the Krushnaprasad Tehsil office. On November 24, the local authorities had launched an eviction drive to demolish the enclosures. A day after the eviction drive, hundreds of residents had protested the move and launched an agitation in front of […]