Violence

ONI Bureau:  Thousands of workers from the organised and unorganised sectors started a 48-hour nationwide strike on Tuesday demanding minimum wages, social security schemes & against privatisation of public and government sector.…

ONI Bureau: Contrary to media reports, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police Commissioner Satyajit Mohanty revealed that Section 144 was never imposed at the KIIT Campus during violent clashes between two groups. The Police Commissioner further…

ONI Bureau: At least 86 people have been arrested so far in connection with violence during Puri Bandh on October 3, as confirmed by Puri SP Sarthak Sarangi. The violence had occurred in protest against the ‘Dhadi Darshan’ or ‘Queue System’…

ONI Bureau: Puri Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb has broken his silence and condemned the violence in Puri on 3rd of October during the Puri Bandh. He has demanded strong action against the guilty, saying he has been out of Odisha since October 3.…

ONI Bureau: The Puri Police have arrested 42 people so far in connection with unprecedented violence during the Puri Bandh on October 3 over 'Dhadi Darshan' or 'Queue System'. In total, 47 people have been identified from the CCTV footage.…

ONI Bureau:  A united Opposition, led by Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Monday staged a foot march in New Delhi in support of a nationwide shutdown protest or 'Bharat Bandh' called by his party against rising fuel prices. The 1.8-km…

ONI Bureau:  A Nation-wide shutdown called by Congress crippled normal life across Odisha today as vehicular movement came to a halt due to the bandh over fuel price rise. While Buses, autos and cabs stayed off roads, East Coast Railway…

Eight months after the January 1 caste riots in Bhima-Koregaon rocked Maharashtra's politics, the first hearing by a judicial commission of inquiry will begin here in September, a top official said on Saturday. The hearings will be…

A Gujarat court on Wednesday sentenced Patidar agitation spearhead Hardik Patel and two of his associates to two years in jail on charges of vandalising a BJP legislator's office in Mehsana district in 2015. This was after a rally…

At least 32 people were killed and several injured mostly in a suicide bombing in Balochistan on Wednesday as millions of voters queued up across Pakistan to elect a new government. The Balochistan bombing targeted the convoy of Deputy…