Bhubaneswar Police imposed Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) Section 163 outside AIIMS after protests over a 15-year-old girl being set on fire in Puri disrupted hospital services, said an official.
Transport services were hit and shops remained shut in Bhubaneswar on Thursday as several opposition parties observed a state-wide bandh over the death of a Balasore college student who died after setting herself ablaze.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Suresh Panigrahi on Thursday said that the Odisha bandh is no longer limited to eight political parties but has turned into a people's bandh across the state.
Around 21 police personnel were injured during the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha protest in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday, officials said on Wednesday.
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday registered a complaint against the police in the Capital Police Station in Bhubaneswar for abusing and manhandling BJYM workers while they were protesting against the deteriorating law and order in the stat
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Dec 19 (ANI): Over a hundred students staged a demonstration against the new citizenship law here on Thursday, alleging that the legislation is discriminatory to the citizens of different religions.