Tag: Communal Riot

Cops on toes in Kandhamal for Janmashtami & Laxmanananda’s death anniv

Phulbani: Elaborate security arrangements have been made to thwart any possible untoward incident on occasion of Janmashtami and 9th death anniversary of local VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati in communally-sensitive Kandhamal district. Seventeen platoons of police, including central forces, were mobilised across the district as VHP has planned to celebrate Nanda Utsav and the Swami’s […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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SC orders more compensation for Kandhamal riot victims

New Delhi: Reasoning that the compensation paid to victims of the 2008 communal riots in Kandhamal ‘inadequate’, the Supreme Court has ordered the Odisha government to pay additional compensation to them. Maintaining that the amount paid to the victims of the violence was not enough, a bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Uday […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Process of assessing damage stepped up in Bhadrak

Bhadrak: Officials today stepped up the process of assessing the damage in Bhadrak town, where violence had erupted over alleged abusive remarks against Hindu deities on social media. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, during his visit to the arson-hit town yesterday, had directed the officials to make a detailed assessment of the damage and report within […]

  • Monday, 28 June 2021
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