<h1>Opposition stages fourth-day sit-in in assembly well over rising crimes against women, halting proceedings and forcing adjournment</h1> Opposition members staged a sit-in in the well of the Odisha Assembly for a fourth day, raising slogans and holding placards over alleged increases in crimes against women and demanding a special debate, prompting the Speaker to adjourn proceedings for 30 minutes. Despite disruptions, the Speaker conducted Question Hour for half an hour during which the deputy chief minister and the food supplies and consumer welfare minister answered queries. Members of the other main party cooperated after their adjournment discussion notice on the murder of a woman traffic constable allegedly killed by her policeman husband was accepted; the House then proceeded to Zero Hour and continued debate on the adjournment motion.