Tag: Bandh

Nabarangpur: Normal life came to a standstill in eight KBK districts due to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the Congress demanding land pattas for the tribals under the Forest Rights Act and protesting against the arrest of former Congress MP Pradip Majhi, who got bail on Friday. Members of the party blocked roads at many […]

Bhubaneswar: Targeting the ruling BJD on a host of issues, the Odisha Congress has called for a dawn-to-dusk bandh in the undivided Kalahandi, Bolangir and Koraput (KBK) districts on July 2. Addressing the media herer today, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) chief Prasad Harichandan said that the party will hit the streets in the KBK […]

Nabarangpur: Normal life came to a standstill in Nabarangpur and Kandhamal districts due to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the Congress to protest against the arrest of former Congress MP Pradip Majhi. Members of the party blocked roads at many places bringing vehicular movement to a grinding halt in the district. The agitating members were […]

A day after the arrest of former Congress MP Pradeep Majhi and 16 others for ransacking the Raighara ranger officer and beating up forest and police staff, the Nabarangpur district unit of Congress today decided to observe bandh on Tuesday in protest

Boudh: Normal life came to a standstill in Boudh due to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by Bharatiya Kissan Sangh demanding fulfillment of their two-point charter of demand. Members of the body blocked roads at many places bringing vehicular movement to a grinding halt in the district. However, emergency services remained operational as the protesters spared […]

Malkangiri: Normal life was disrupted for the second day running in Malkangiri town due to the bandh called by the District Congress Committee and Town Congress Committee demanding four essential services to the people. While heavy vehicles stayed off the road, all trading and business establishments downed their shutters in support of the bandh. Several […]

Bhubaneswar: Noraml life was affected in many parts of the state due to a dawn to dusk bandh called by the All Odisha Auto Chalaka Mahasangha protesting against the App-based on-line auto services on Thursday. According to sources, as many as 1.5 lakh auto rickshaws will stay off the roads during the bandh today. The […]

Normal life in Burla came to a standstill due to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the city Congress committee to protest against the damage of Mahatma Gandhi statue in the premises of Jyoti Vihar, the campus of Sambalpur University

Bhawanipatna: Normal life came to a standstill in Kalahandi district due to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by Congress protesting against the shifting of the proposed railway wagon repair factory from Narla to Vishakhapatnam in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. Members of the district Congress blocked roads at many places, including Bhawanipatna, bringing vehicular movement to a grinding […]

Bargarh: Normal life came to a standstill in Bargarh due to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the Koshal State Coordination Committee on Thursday to protest farmers’ plight. The members of the association blocked roads at many places bringing vehicular movement to a grinding halt in the town. However, emergency services and educational institutes remained operational […]

Bhawanipatna/ Rayagada: Vehicular traffic in five blocks of Rayagada and Kalahandi districts was disrupted today as a result of a bandh being observed by the Maoists to protest the killing of a local youth in an false encounter by police a few days back. The Bandh has been called by Maoists belonging to Bansadhara-Ghumusar- Nagabali […]

Keonjhar: Vehicular movement came to a grinding halt in the town today as the United Action Committee (Milita Krianusthan Committee) has called for a 12-hour Keonjhar bandh to press its five-point charter of demands, including setting up of a medical college in the district. The committee’s other demands include establishment of a mega steel plant, […]

Sambalpur: As per its earlier decision, Western Odisha Central Action Committee (CAC) of lawyers kicked off a 12-hour bandh in the entire western region of the state paralysing normal life today. The lawyers resorted to roar blockade in Deogarh, Sambalpur, Rourkela, Bargarh, Jharsuguda, Sundergarh and Padampur towns. The activists have shut down all government offices […]

Chennai: The DMK and other opposition parties in Tamil Nadu have called for a dawn-to-dusk bandh tomorrow, condemning the police action against protesters in Tuticorin, in which 11 people lost their lives. The DMK had on Tuesday called for an all-party protest in all district headquarters on May 25 to condemn the police firing in […]

Rourkela: Normal life in Sundergarh district was today hit by a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the Congress to protest against the forced removal of stoles from women at a government programme addressed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on December 4. Though Patnaik has asked the Director General of Police to inquire into the matter, Congress […]