Kandhmal

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  Denied Justice for Long, Kandhmal Victims Now Seek President's Intervention

  Dressed in a simple green and white saree, 35-year-old Kanakarekha is way far from her home in Odisha's remote tribal district of Kandhamal. On August 27, 2008, her husband was murdered in brutal communal violence triggered by alleged conversions in the state that left many dead and thousands homeless.

• Odisha hostage crisis: Maoists release one of the two Italian nationals

  After spending 11 days in Maoist captivity, one of the two Italian nationals, Claudio Colangelo, who was taken hostage, has been released in Odisha's Kandhmal district. The other Italian national, Bosusco Paolo, is still being held hostage by the Maoists.

• 12 convicted in Kandhamal riot case

  Two separate fast track courts here today sentenced 12 people to three to four years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) and penalty after convicting them in cases of house burning during the Kandhamal riot in 2008.While disposing a case relating to house burning of minorities at Lengisuga village under Baliguda police station area during the riot, the fas...

• 15 convicted in Kandhamal riots case

  A local court has sentenced 15 people to three-year rigorous imprisonment after finding them guilty of setting fire to houses of minorities during 2008 riots in Kandhamal district.The punishment was pronounced by Fast Track Court-II Judge C R Das while disposing a house burning incident which took place at Saudikia village under Baliguda police sta...

• BJP MLA convicted in Kandhamal riot case

  Manoj Pradhan, the controversial BJP MLA from Kandhmal in Orissa, was arrested on Thursday after a fast-track court hearing cases relating to anti-Christian violence in 2008, held him guilty of playing a major role in the murder of a Dalit Christian, Vikram Nayak.Vikram Nayak of Tiangia village near Raikia, was murdered on August 25, 2008. Manoj Pr...

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  US body raises concern, puts India's secularism under 'watch'

  The US Commission on International Religious Freedom put India in its "Watch List", citing Godhra and Kandhmal riots.

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  Orissa on alert, tight security in Kandhmal

  The VHP is slated to hold a silent protest in front of the Raj Bhawan in Bhubaneswar on the first death anniversary of Swami Laxmananand.

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  Orissa's forgotten Dalit Christians

  Christians from neighbouring Gajapati district were forced to migrate to Stuartpeta in Andhra Pradesh, barely three km from the Orissa border.

• Kandhmal riot accused out of jail, to take oath as MLA

  BJP leader and a prime accused in last year's communal riot in Kandhmal, Manoj Pradhan, was released from jail in Phulbani.

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  First conviction in Kandhmal riots: Man gets jail

  A tribal leader has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment by a local court in Phulbani.

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  PC apologises to Kandhmal riot victims

  During a visit to one of the relief camps in Kandhamal, Home Minister P Chidambaram apologised to the riot victims.

• Kandhamal riots: SC notice to Orissa

  A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan issued notice to the state government.

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  Kandhamal riot victims vote amid fear

  Escorted by police, victims at the epicentre of communal riots in Orissa lodged in relief camps shed their fears and went to election booths in special buses.

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  Kandhmal Christians determined to vote

  The wounds of communal violence are still raw, but Kandhmal Christians are determined to cast their vote.

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  BJP's Kandhmal candidate Ashok Sahu arrested

  Ashok Sahu, BJP's candidate for the Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat, was arrested on Tuesday while he was addressing a rally in Phulbani.