India update 10-1-08

Tue, 30/09/2008 - 1:13pm 147 killed in Rajasthan temple stampede:GCIC condoles deaths
Jodhpur (PTI): In one of the worst tragedies in Rajasthan, at least 103 people, mostly men, were killed and about 30 injured in a stampede that took place when thousands of devotees gathered at a 15th century temple here on the occasion of Navaratri festival today.
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Tue, 30/09/2008 - 11:12am Three killed in fresh firing in Kandhamal, Orissa
NEW DELHI: Three persons have been killed in fresh firing in Gresinghia in Kandhamal district of Orissa according to TV channel Times Now.Police fired at the mob after two communities clashed in the area.There are reports that some crude bombs were hurled in the area.
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Tue, 30/09/2008 - 9:27am Kandhamal witnessed more killing and arson
Bhubaneswar: Orissa30th September 2008
Atleast three killed and many Christian houses torched ,today in the renewed attacks aginst christians about 0400AM in Rudangia and Gadaguda villages under Tikabali block (5 Kms from G.Udayagiri).When a big group of Hindu extremists blocked the roads and then attacked, ransacked and set fire to many Christian house.Christian inhabitant in this village sustained serious injuries inflicted with sword, axes, daggers.
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Tue, 30/09/2008 - 7:32am 5 killed, 80 injured in blasts in Gujarat, Maharashtra towns
Malegaon/Banaskantha :30th Sept.On the heels of serial blasts in Kandhamal, At least five persons, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed and 80 injured on Monday night as terrorists set off bomb blasts in the communally-sensitive town of Malegaon in Maharashtra and Modasa town in Gujarat's Banaskantha district.
posted in: Current Issue, Persecution, West India
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Tue, 30/09/2008 - 7:28am Worst is yet to come in Karnataka
Worst is yet to come: CPM leaderDH News Service,Mangalore:Right to religion, right to protest and several other rights ensured to the citizens in the Constitution has been thrown apart by the BJP rule in Karnataka. This is the cost we would have to pay as the most uncivilised political party has come to power in the State. This is just the beginning. Worst is yet to come, said CPIM Leader and former minister Sriram Reddy.
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Tue, 30/09/2008 - 6:57am Nun was gang raped and priest brutally assaulted in Kandhamal-Parvathi Menon
FIRs lodged but no arrests by State government; no response from Centre; Sister Nirmala wrote to CM and PM appealing for protection to ChristiansTERRIFYING VIOLENCE: A vandalised church in Tengedapathar village in Kandhamal district. A mob shouting anti-Christian and Hindutva slogans targeted this church three days after the gang rape of a nun and attack on a priest in K.Nuagaon.Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government has failed to take any action, under the law of the land, against those who committed bestial crimes — the gang rape of a 28-year-old Catholic nun and the brutal attack on a Catholic priest who courageously resisted their attempts to force him to participate in the atrocity. These incidents took place on August 25 at K. Nuagaon, 12 km from the Baliguda subdivision in Kandhamal district. Both victims filed First Information Reports at the Baliguda police station. Sister Nirmala, Superior-General of the Missionaries of Charity, wrote to the Orissa Chief Minister and the Prime Minister specifying the atrocities.
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Mon, 29/09/2008 - 8:28pm LOSING HINDUISM -LOSING MY RELIGION-BY CHIDANAND RAJAGHATTA
(28 SEPT 2008 -TIMES OF INDIA )In the past fortnight, in the time some cretins have vandalised churches in India, at least two new Hindu temples opened in the United States.
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