Kandhmal Riots

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.