Jammu and Kashmir

LONDON: Kashmiri Hindus in the UK have held an event in the British Parliament to mark the 68th anniversary of the signing of the ‘Instrument of Accession’ of Jammu and Kashmir to India by Maharaja Hari Singh. Jointly organised by the Kashmiri Pandits Cultural Society and Voice of Dogras, the event earlier this week was [...]

Jammu, February 18, Bajrang Dal J&K and Vishaw Hindu Parishad have serious concerns over the running of Non vegetarian hotels and wine shops in Katra. In a statement issued to press said that Bajrang Dal asks Distt administration of Jammu to ensure that no meat shops are operated near vicinity of temples in Jammu city. [...]

  The Ganju family are among 500,000 Kashmiri Hindus who were forced to flee their native land because of terrorist acts committed against them. “We Hindus were threatened,” said Chandramukhi Ganju, who left Kashmir with her family in 1989. “We had to run from that place.” Kashmir, whose population is mostly Muslim, has been bitterly [...]

The annual Amarnath Yatra is facing a terror threat and the government is making all efforts to ensure security of the pilgrims, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Wednesday. “There is terror threat to Amarnath Yatra,” Shinde told reporters when asked about reports which suggested threat to the pilgrimage to the cave shrine in Jammu [...]

"As many as 808 families are residing in Kashmir and 59,442 registered migrant families continue to reside outside the Valley," Minister of State for Home Affairs Jitendra Singh told Rajya Sabha in a written reply. The minister also released data on temples in the Valley along with those that were damaged during the campaign to drive [...]