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Former Orissa and Allahabad High Court judge dead
Justice S C Mohapatra, a former judge of Orissa and Allahabad High Courts who headed the Commission probing the 2008 riots in communally sensitive Kandhamal district, died in Bhubaneswar today following a brief illness.
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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...
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'Orissa government failed Kandhamal victims'
Two years after the anti-Christian riots in Orissa's Kandhamal district claimed 38 lives and saw nearly 6000 houses torched, top Christian leaders have expressed their utter disappointment with the state government's non-serious approach to the issues of rehabilitation and compensation. On Monday, Reverend Raphael Cheenath, the Archbishop of Bhuban...
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7 get jail in Kandhamal riots case
Seven persons have been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years by fast track courts in Orissa for their involvement in the communal riots in Kandhamal district in 2008.
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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.
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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.
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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: Polls in the shadow of fear
When you are talking of a democracy, it is free and fair elections that describe it. But that is certainly not the case in Orissa's Kandhamal district where the impact of the communal riots last year is the fear factor in the electorate.
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Former Orissa and Allahabad High Court judge dead
Justice S C Mohapatra, a former judge of Orissa and Allahabad High Courts who headed the Commission probing the 2008 riots in communally sensitive Kandhamal district, died in Bhubaneswar today following a brief illness.
-
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...
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'Orissa government failed Kandhamal victims'
Two years after the anti-Christian riots in Orissa's Kandhamal district claimed 38 lives and saw nearly 6000 houses torched, top Christian leaders have expressed their utter disappointment with the state government's non-serious approach to the issues of rehabilitation and compensation. On Monday, Reverend Raphael Cheenath, the Archbishop of Bhuban...
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7 get jail in Kandhamal riots case
Seven persons have been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years by fast track courts in Orissa for their involvement in the communal riots in Kandhamal district in 2008.
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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.
-
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.
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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.
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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.
-
Kandhmal: Polls in the shadow of fear
When you are talking of a democracy, it is free and fair elections that describe it. But that is certainly not the case in Orissa's Kandhamal district where the impact of the communal riots last year is the fear factor in the electorate.
