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Over six hours into the strike, no violence was reported, a senior home department official said. Transport and business were hit, with coal and mineral movement disrupted, but major industries like Nalco in Angul and Rourkela Steel Plant operated normally.
Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan said the government would ensure a fair probe into the woman student’s death and warned against attempts to derail it. He also slammed the BJD and Congress for politicising the case.
Southampton University India campus will offer BSc, MSc courses from 2025-26 session for students from India, UAE, Nepal.
Lamba blamed the student's death on systemic failure in Odisha and demanded the CM’s resignation along with the imposition of President’s Rule. She pointed out that PM Modi had earlier sought President’s Rule in Rajasthan over women's safety.
Before taking charge as director of IIM Calcutta, Alok Kumar Rai was serving as vice chancellor of Lucknow University. Prior to that, he was a professor of management at Banaras Hindu University and held roles in several high-level committees and panels.
Protest over sexually harassed student's death in Odisha, BJD ministers and leaders injured
Operation Sindoor Row: The bench said there was no occasion for the SIT to seize electronic gadgets including Ali Khan Mahmudabad's cell phones for investigation.
NSUI Delhi president Ashish Lamba, leading the protest, called Soumyashree's death a "murder by the BJP-ABVP nexus" and vowed to keep fighting for justice.
The Government Serchhip College Students' Union said the government failed to appoint promised teachers for the new session and instead transferred existing casual staff, despite repeated demands for faculty in Computer Application, Geography and Zoology.
Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi called the student’s death tragic and vowed strict action, while Rahul Gandhi and Naveen Patnaik described it as an “organised murder by the system."
