Tag: Protest

Bhubaneswar: Students of the Government College of Physical Education (GCPE) here staged a demonstration before the Sports & Youth Services Department on Tuesday demanding better infrastructure and academic facilities. Raising slogans against lack of practice grounds, hostel facilities and shortage of teachers, the students rued the delay in construction of their new hostel building. The […]

  Rayagada: Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd (IMFA) officials on Tuesday stated that ‘outsiders’ are instigating locals and threatening their employees to join agitation at its plant in Therubali of Rayagada district. The plant employees and their families are now in a state of worry and scared as agitators have locked up the nearby […]

  Cuttack: More than a hundred workers of a beverage plant in Jagatpur area of Cuttack staged protest in front of the plant on Tuesday demanding permanent employment. According to sources, the protest was launched by the workers after the company started recruiting new people without providing permanent employment to existing workers. To resolve the […]

Koraput: Students of Central University of Odisha, Koraput who launched an agitation over fulfillment of their 60-point charter of demands have withdrawn their stir after discussions with the varsity Vice-Chancellor (VC). Earlier in the day, tension ran high at the Central University of Odisha (CUO) in Koraput after students intensified their agitation and demanded removal […]

Bhubaneswar: Even after the Odisha government withdrew the clause of compulsory submission of an affidavit to avail grant-in-aid facility, teachers, under the banner of Odisha School College Teachers’ and Employees’ United Forum, continued their protests in front of 57 Matric answer sheet evaluation centres across the State. The teachers have alleged that except the omission […]

Jeypore: Tension prevailed after members of two local outfits staged an agitation in front of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Sunabeda in Koraput on Tuesday. The agitators locked three gates of the HAL plant disrupting operations at the plant. Locals and other members belonging to Peripheral Parishad of HAL-adopted villages and activists of the […]

Bonai: Protesting heavy losses being incurred due to low freight rates for transportation of minerals, truck owners in Bonai of Sundergarh district resorted to an indefinite strike from today. The diesel rate is increasing day by day while the State Government is imposing various taxes for transportation, the truck association alleged. As a result, the […]

Bhubaneswar: Apprehending any untoward incident on Valentine’s Day, today, Commissionerate Police detained over 30 Kalinga Sena activists and took them into preventive custody from outside their office at Baramunda in Bhubaneswar. As per sources, the outfit had threatened to hold protests against the Valentine’s Day celebrations in different parts of the temple city and warned […]

Puri: Hundreds of school and college teachers, staff and parents took out a Padayatra from Pipili to Bhubaneswar protesting compulsory submission of a proposed affidavit for grant-in-aid introduced by the state government. The affidavit though promises to give financial benefits, also prevents teachers from staging any kind of protests in future. The protesters began their […]

Bhubaneswar: In the wake of continued protests against the proposal to set up the second campus of Rama Devi (RD) Women’s University on the premises of Utkal University, the State Government has revamped the committee to identify a suitable location for the new campus. In this regard, Higher Education Minister Ananta Das held a discussion […]

Berhampur: BJD’s Ganjam district unit staged a Rail Roko at the Berhampur Railway Station here this morning protesting Centre’s negligence towards Odisha in the Union Budget-2018. The party workers alleged while State Government had demanded Rs 6,500 crore for different railway projects in the State this year, the Centre allocated Rs 5,252 crore. BJD further […]

Sambalpur: The agitating 108 ambulance staff today resorted to another unique ‘symbolic protest’ seeking fulfillment of their long-standing demands. The agitating workers have been demanding ouster of the contractual agency engaged in managing ambulance services and immediate payment of their salary arrears. The ambulance workers today turned vendors and sold vegetables at Dhanupali Bazaar in […]

Cuttack: Tension ran high after scores of residents and members of Balu Bazaar Puja Committee on Monday staged a demonstration against administrative approvals for opening of a licenced foreign liquor shop in the locality. Resentment was brewing among locals as they questioned how licence was granted to open the liquor shop in the area which […]

Cuttack: Tension ran high after Cuttack Nagar BJP activists clashed with police during a protest in front of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) headquarters on Thursday. During the scuffle, BJP activists allegedly hurled eggs, tomatoes at the CMC office protesting corruption and tardy progress of the Integrated Sanitation Project undertaken by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).  […]

Kendrapara: A group of BJD activists have threatened protests ahead of an event organised by their party’s Kendrapara MP Baijayant Panda to inaugurate an overhead drinking water tank at Buhalo village under Nischintkoili block of Cuttack district. Members of the party’s Nischintakoili block in a letter to the Cuttack Collector have sought cancellation of the […]