Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected two review petitions filed by two religious organizations seeking a relook at its January 2011 orders on demolition of illegal places of worship. The Division Bench of Justice Madanmohan Das and Indrajit Mohanti, adjudicating over the matter, did not make any further observation while rejecting the review petitions.
Soon after the High Court order, the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Central Division Arvind Padhee reviewed the situation with the district officials and gave a clear direction that the demolition drive against the illegal places of worship shall be taken up without break until the last illegal structure is grounded. The RDC is also learnt to have given another direction to the concerned departments to ensure that re-encroachment of evicted areas are prevented.
"Otherwise, we will have no option other than asking the concerned departments to bear the cost of the eviction of re-encroachment," Padhee said. The district administration has identified at least 207 such places of worship, which have come up illegally on government lands and creating civic problems. The administration, equipped with HC order and HC-guided police enforcement, began the demolition act from May 1, 2013 and by now, four temples have been grounded despite a massive public outcry....
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02:46 AM, May 08, 2013
Shirdi: The Saibaba temple trust in Shirdi received Rs 305.39 crore in donations last fiscal, an increase of about Rs 30 crore over the previous year, a trust official said. The cash collection in the donation boxes in the temple was Rs 176 crore in 2012-13. Of the Rs 305.39 crore donations, Rs 10 crore was in the form of foreign currencies of 22 countries, trust's executive officer Kishor More...
07:20 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Bangalore: The bomb blast near the state BJP city office that left at least 16 people injured indicated the hand of terrorists and state police has set up a special team to investigate the attack, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said on Wednesday. "By tomorrow or day after, details will be known about the incident and appropriate action will be taken in this regard," he told reporters after visiting the...
01:21 AM, Apr 18, 2013
A blast near the BJP office in Malleshwaram in Bangalore on Wednesday left 16 people injured including eight policemen. The explosion reportedly took place near a temple just metres away from the BJP headquarters. ...
11:54 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Raigarh: A 20-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by five youths in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district, police said on Wednesday. The five accused were arrested on Tuesday in this connection. "The arrests were made under section 376 (2) (g) (gang rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC on Tuesday based on the complaint of the victim," said Raigarh Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Praphulla Thakur. "The incident took place when the girl...
03:44 PM, Apr 17, 2013
3:40 pm: The Home Ministry confirms that the Bangalore blast was a terror attack. 2:39 pm: 11 policemen have been injured in the Bangalore blast, say sources. 2:30 pm: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde says, "Have constituted an enquiry into the Bangalore blast under the Special Secretary of Home department. I will have interaction with the Karnataka government and the police." 2:16 pm: Mumbai put on high alert after Bangalore...
12:48 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Bangalore: A blast near the BJP office in Malleshwaram in Bangalore on Wednesday left 16 people injured including eight policemen. The explosion reportedly took place near a temple just metres away from the BJP headquarters. Bangalore Police said that several cars have been damaged in the low intensity blast including a police vehicle. The police added that the cause of the blast in not known yet. The blast comes weeks...
11:08 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Patna: Describing senior JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's posturing as 'charade,' LJP supremo Ramvilas Paswan on Sunday claimed that Kumar would never sever ties with the BJP for the sake of power in the state. "Nitish will never sever ties with the BJP on Modi issue or any other matter not only in this life, but in the next seven lives," Paswan told reporters. Kumar's posturing on...
03:10 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: A 25-year-old man threw acid at a priest and another man in New Delhi when he was prevented from entering a temple, police said on Thursday. Priest Ravishankar and his friend Moolchand were sitting outside the temple when Ramesh threw acid at them in Nand Nagari in east Delhi, said a police officer. The victims were being treated for burns at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, police said....
01:07 AM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Raking up the Ram temple issue, BJP leader LK Advani on Saturday asked partymen not to be apologetic for the Ayodhya movement and instead take pride in it. Advani also referred to Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's recent words of praise for him, which had surprised many, and said that people should not hesitate to speak the "right thing" as "the world will accept it". "When people...
02:35 AM, Apr 07, 2013
A 33-year-old married woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a temple priest and his accomplice at a village here and then sold off for Rs 40,000 to three brothers, who also gangraped her, police said on Tuesday. The victim, a resident of Kawar village in Chhatarpur district, had been missing since January 17 and the offence came to light on Monday after her brother traced her, along with her...
05:14 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Maharashtra Government has served a showcause notice to the trust managing Saibaba temple in Shirdi for spending lakhs of rupees on a slew of projects without taking its permission, an RTI query has revealed. Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, which spent the money on providing basic amenities like roads in Shirdi town, has been served the notice by Law and Judiciary Department, Sandeep Kulkarni, RTI activist who filed the query related...
04:59 PM, Mar 16, 2013
In another horrific incident, a group of men allegedly abducted and gangraped a woman in a moving car in New Delhi, just almost three months after the brutal December 16 gangrape that shook the country and exposed the flimsy safety facilities for women in the national capital. The woman has alleged that she was driven around the city on Sunday night, crossing many busy traffic lights along the route. ...
11:07 PM, Mar 10, 2013
At least two persons on Sunday were killed and 12 injured in a stampede at a Shiva temple where thousands of devotees had lined up to pay obeisance on the occasion of Shivratri. ...
10:21 AM, Mar 10, 2013
A Sai Baba temple in Dilsukh Nagar was the initial target of the bombers, police sources said on Saturday. However, a visit by Hyderabad police commissioner Anurag Sharma to the temple just ahead of the blasts forced the attackers to shift the location of the cycle carrying the bomb, as policemen swarmed the temple, the sources added. In fact, the visit by the police commissioner ended up saving thousands of...
12:22 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Police sources have told CNN-IBN that a Sai Baba temple in Dilsukh Nagar was the initial target of the blasts. However, following Hyderabad police commissioner's visit to the temple, the bombers shifted the location of the cycle. ...
12:05 PM, Feb 23, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday visited the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, the site of a massacre of innocent people during independence struggle. Cameron expressed regret at the carnage, calling it a deeply "shameful act in British history". ...
11:16 AM, Feb 20, 2013
After visiting Mumbai and Delhi, visiting UK Prime Minister David Cameron is set to go to Amritsar later on Wednesday. Cameron, who is in India with a high level business delegation for three days, will be in Punjab and is expected to visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar. ...
10:11 AM, Feb 20, 2013
A 38-year-old Sikh woman has been charged in connection with the attack on the 1984 Operation Blue Star hero KS Brar in London in September, 2012, taking to four the number of people accused in the case. ...
11:21 PM, Feb 09, 2013
