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Maoists posters found, security tightened in south Orissa
Ganjām :: India | 11 days ago
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The police said additional armed police force were deployed in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts as the posters were found pasted in public places like the panchayat office and the bazaar. The posters were also found pasted on passenger buses,...
Tags: India, Ganjām, Kandhamal, Ganjam district, Jajpur district, Kandhamal district, Ganjam, Jajapur, Gajapati district, Poster
BJP legislator acquitted in Kandhamal riots case
Mumbai :: India | 12 days ago
Credibility Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Manoj Pradhan was Tuesday acquitted by a fast-track court in a murder case relating to the Kandhamal riots for want of evidence. 'Manoj Pradhan has been acquitted in the case. He has been let off for want of evidence,'...
Tags: Kandhamal district, cases related, kandhamal riots, Manoj Pradhan, track courts, India, Mumbai, Pradhan, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Kandhamal, Murder of Swami Lakshmanananda, Swami Lakshmanananda, Yogis, Religious violence in India, Law Crime
Catholic Bishops meet Indian Union Ministers
New Delhi: Leading a delegation of the catholic bishops in India Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandez, the Secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India met the Union Minister P Chidambaram , the Home Minister and the Minister of...
Tags: Catholics, India, Religious violence in Orissa, minority affairs, Kandhamal district, union ministers, Orissa, present condition, Social Issues, christian communal, Religion Belief, Supreme Court of India, Politics, affairs ministers, Raphael Cheenath, causes, Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid, New Delhi, Charles Soreng, Delegation, P, Catholic Church, Kandhamal, Bishop
Orissa's forgotten victims | David Griffiths
London :: United Kingdom | 13 days ago
Credibility Orissa's forgotten victims Victims of anti-Christian violence in Orissa are too fearful to return home while their tormentors remain at large "We cannot now return to the village as the murderers would be on the streets with more hatred and anger for...
Tags: relief camps, Orissa Legislative Assembly, United Kingdom, London, Bail, Bhubaneswar, Religious violence in Orissa, Orissa, Kandhamal, Christianity and violence
Nine imprisoned for India riots
Mumbai :: India | 17 days ago
Credibility A local court acquitted five others, including a legislator from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who were accused of rioting. The rioting in the Kandhamal district left at least 40 people dead and over 25,000 homeless. The riots followed...
Tags: Kandhamal, India, Mumbai, Orissa, Hindu nationalism, Religious violence in Orissa, Religion in India, Bharatiya Janata Party, Hindutva, War Conflict, Religion Belief
European envoys meet Kandhamal riot victims
Bhubaneswar :: India | 20 days ago
Credibility Aoulsen Ole Lonsmann, Ambassador of Denmark said "we had a private discussion with the victims...Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Archbishop Raphael Cheenath said "they are concerned over what happened in Kandhamal last year...The archbishop said though was no violence...
Tags: Kandhamal, riots victims, India, Bhubaneswar, Religious violence in Orissa, Kandhamal district, Riot, Social Issues
Orissa Minister welcomes Christian Tourists to the state
BHUBANESWAR: Debi Prasad Mishra, the Tourism and Cultural Minister of the State of Orissa in Indian Federation have now welcomed Christian Tourists to the state. Orissa had been in the news for sometime with the Kandhamal riots...
Tags: orissa, Catholics, Christians, Christian Tourists, Orissa Minister, Kandhamal, State of Orissa, causes, India, Bhubaneswar, Religion Belief, Kandhamal district, Debi Prasad Mishra, Politics, welcomed christian
Times of India: Docs yet to identify killer disease in Kandhamal
Mumbai :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility Doctors have yet to identify the "mysterious" disease that has already claimed eight lives in tribal-dominated Kandhamal district's Gudurigaon village...The mystery element of the killer disease has made locals paranoid. So much so that a number families...
Kandhamal peaceful on VHP leader's death anniversary
Bhubaneswar :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility The first death anniversary of VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati, whose killing triggered anti-Christian riots in Kandhamal district was peaceful on Thursday. "There was no untoward incident at any place in Kandhamal. Orissa Special Strike Force, Special...
Tags: Kandhamal, death anniversary, VHP, Orissa Special Strike Force, Orissa State Armed Police, vhp leader
Naxal threat was 'under-estimated', admits PC
New Delhi :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility A military advisor has been appointed to prepare an action plan for dealing with Maoists, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said even as he regretted that for many years the Naxal threat was "under-estimated." Replying to questions in Rajya Sabha,...
Tags: Orissa, P Chidambaram, Kandhamal, action plans, military adviser, Rajya Sabha
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