In a bid to repair itssecular image that got tainted due to the Kandhamal riots, the state governmenthas decided to launch a "Christian heritage tourism" in the state.Tourism minister Debi Prasad Mishra announced the first of its kindreligious tourism programme in the country, in the presence of 33 Archbishops ofNorth India. These Archbishops from 26 dioceses are currently on a trip toOrissa."Orissa...
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Thursday convicted and sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment for destruction of evidence in a case of the 2008 Kandhamal riots, an official said.Fast track court-II Judge Sobhan Kumar Das convicted the three for destruction of evidence in the murder of Sidheswar Pradhan of Sulesaro village under Tikabali police station area of Kandhamal district, special public prosecutor Bijay Pattnaik said."The...
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a bid to repair itssecular image that got tainted due to the Kandhamal riots, the state governmenthas decided to launch a "Christian heritage tourism" in the state.Tourism minister Debi Prasad Mishra announced the first of its kindreligious tourism programme in the country, in the presence of 33 Archbishops ofNorth India. These Archbishops from 26 dioceses are currently on a trip toOrissa."Orissa has...
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Bhubaneswar, Oct 29 Three people were Thursday convicted and sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment for destruction of evidence in a case of the 2008 Kandhamal riots, an official said.Fast track court-II Judge Sobhan Kumar Das convicted the three for destruction of evidence in the murder of Sidheswar Pradhan of Sulesaro village under Tikabali police station area of Kandhamal district, special...
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Orissa high court on Monday granted bail to Manoj Pradhan, the BJP MLA from G Udayagiri, in two other cases pending against him in connection with last year's Kandhamal riots. Pradhan is a prime accused in the communal riots that followed the murder of Hindu seer Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his disciples on August 23, 2008.He was also charged with attacking churches and inciting communal...
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Nine people have been convicted and sent to prison in connection with the anti-Christian riots in the eastern Indian state of Orissa last year.A local court acquitted five others, including a legislator from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who were accused of rioting.The violence in Kandhamal district left at least 40 people dead and more than 25,000 homeless.A fast-track court...
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Though there was no threat to their lives now, victims of riots that took place in Kandhamal today told envoys of five European countries they were yet to be re-settled even a year after the violence.At least 10 selected victims of the riots narrated this to the ambassadors of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland, who met them at the Bishop's House here.Aoulsen Ole Lonsmann, Ambassador of Denmark...
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prime accused in theKandhamal riots case, BJP MLA Manoj Kumar Pradhan, was todayacquitted in another case of arson by a local court citinglack of evidence.Fast Track Court-I Judge S K Das acquitted Pradhan froma house burning case that took place at Banjamaha villageunder Raikia police station area in September last year whichis a separate incident not connected with the riots.While Pradhan had already...
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Over a year after PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh, apparently under pressure from French PresidentNicholas Sarkozy, described the Kandhamal violence as a "national shame", afive-member delegation from European countries on Monday interacted with thevictims of last year's ethno-communal riots.Envoys from Denmark,Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland, currently touring Orissa to do a realitycheck on different...
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BHUBANESWAR: Over a year after PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh, apparently under pressure from French PresidentNicholas Sarkozy, described the Kandhamal violence as a "national shame", afive-member delegation from European countries on Monday interacted with thevictims of last year's ethno-communal riots.Envoys from Denmark,Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland, currently touring Orissa to do a realitycheck...
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