Kashmiri pandits

Anupam Kher has opened up about the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Jammu & Kashmir and has said that the memories of pain don’t go. read more

The concessions include relaxation in the cut-off percentage up to 10 per cent, subject to minimum eligibility requirement and increase in intake capacity up to 5 per cent course-wise. read more

The concessions available for admission in higher educational institutions to the wards of Kashmiri migrants will now also be given to Kashmiri Pandits living in the valley, according to officials at the HRD Ministry. read more

The event ‘Kashmir the Way Forward,’ was organised by Indo-American Community Federation in collaboration with Kashmiri Overseas Association (KOA) and the US-India Political Action Committee (USINPAC). read more

“New winds are blowing in Kashmir and we will all build a new Kashmir together that will be for everyone,” Modi told the Kashmiri Pandit delegation. Modi later tweeted about his “special interaction” with the delegation. read more

Hindustan Purvodaya 2019 highlights: A one day event ‘Hindustan Purvodaya 2019’ in Ranchi was inaugurated by Union law minister RS Prasad. It will end with a session with Union home minister Amit Shah. read more

The minister suggested the winds of change were blowing in Jammu and Kashmir but some people failed to see it. read more

if we’re going to recall what’s happened to Pandits in 1990, then it’s wrong not to remember what happened to Muslims in Jammu in 1947. Hundreds of thousands were killed or expelled read more

The protesting group called the article by the weekly a result of “fake news” and “propaganda”. read more

Through the 1990s, as the Pandits sought, heroically, to rebuild their lives outside Kashmir, they found themselves facing a fourth tragedy—that they were becoming the cat’s paw of a rising Hindutva. read more

Lucknow’s Kashmiri Mohalla was established way back in 1770s, during the regime of the then nawab Asaf-ud-Daulah. Over the years, a majority of families apart from Shargas left Kashmiri Mohalla and settled at other places. read more

Kashmiri Pandits, who are part of the Saraswat Brahmin community, have been the original residents of the Valley until the 1990s. Militancy followed by persecution forced the community to leave Kashmir, and settle in other parts of the country. read more

Anuradha Chak, an academician who hails from the Valley but lives in Lucknow, said: “I am absolutely ecstatic over the scrapping of Article 370. Now, we will be looked upon as Indians...” read more

President of the All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference, which represents the displaced people, Ravinder Raina, said they “welcome the decision with open arms”. read more

Several thousand Kashmiri Pandits fled the Valley for safety to places like Jammu and other Indian cities in the early 1990s after the start of militancy and the targeted killing of some members of their community. read more