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Kainaat Mushtaq SRINAGAR, Nov 18: They left their ancestral homes in droves over two-decades ago when a bloody militancy broke out in Kashmir. Then, encouraged by a sharp decline in violence here and a thaw in relations between India and Pakistan three years ago, New Delhi planned to help thousands of Kashmiri Pandits return. Pandit migrant families who had to sell their property in distress and were desirous to return to the Valley would be given assistance of 750,000 rupees, Prime...
Posted 184 days ago.
KATHUA, Sept 4: The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered ban on sale and consumption of liquor, meat and tobacco around Mata Vaishno Devi Mandir (temple) Langerial in order to what government said was to prevent annoyance to worshippers. An official spokesperson said that 300 metres area around the Mata Vaishno Devi Mandir Langerial, Dyalachack Hiranagar has been declared as a dry area and drinking of alcohol (except in the bar room of Dak Bunglow, Dyalachack), eating of meat, use of tobacco and narcotic drugs,...
Posted 258 days ago.
Baba Umar ZOHAND, Aug 10: In Zohand village, perched on a mountaintop of Doda district in Jammu & Kashmir, Nilkant Kumar, 65, snakes his way through corn and walnut fields to reach his son’s grave. With a pensive look, the frail man rests besides the marble tombstone that has an epitaph etched in black: “Shaheed Kuldeep Kumar al Maroof Kamraan Fareedi” (Martyr Kuldeep Kumar alias Kamraan Fareedi). Nilkant’s memory of his son is an awkward one. He is bitter at his son’s...
Posted 284 days ago.
Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, July 11: Puri Shankaracharya, Swami Adhokshjanand Tirtha on Wednesday expressed his desire to invite the separatists to attend Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious festival of the country. Heading one of the five main religious seats of Hindus in the country, Swami is on a visit to Kashmir valley in connection with annual Amarnath Yatra. During the visit he met hard-line separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, moderate Hurriyat leader and chief Muslim Cleric Mirwaiz Umar...
Posted 313 days ago.
Sheikh Saqlain LEH, June 12: There were no sadhus with ash-smeared bodies, no shankaracharyas and no RSS cadres. Much water has flown down the Indus since senior right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani inaugurated the first Sindhu Darshan Festival here in 1997. This year, saffron was conspicuous by its absence and the occasion-actually meant for Hindus to celebrate and worship the Indus or Sindhu river-turned out to be a low key affair, and was perhaps lost in the...
Posted 342 days ago.
SRINAGAR, May 19:Hindu groups Saturday threatened to start the Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir from June 3, defying the June 25 date announced by the organisers. The Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) has said it will organise the pilgrimage from June 25 to Aug 2, a total of 39 days. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal want the pilgrimage to last 60 days starting June 3. A VHP spokesman told reporters Saturday: "Come what may, we will start the yatra from June 3." SASB said the schedule...
Posted 366 days ago.
JAMMU, May 13:Police today detained 53 Bajrang Dal activists foiling their bid to move towards the Baltal base camp of Amarnath cave shrine in Kashmir ahead of commencement of the annual pilgrimage next month. Flagged off by VHP state chief Rama Kant Dubey from Jammu city, a group of 150 boarded two buses and left for Kashmir Valley but were intercepted by police on Jammu-Srinagar National highway at Jajjarkotli, 35 kms from here. "53 activists of Bajrang Dal were detained and have been taken to District Police Lines...
Posted 372 days ago.
SRINAGAR, April 22: A Kashmiri Pandit businessman has returned to the Kashmir Valley to launch an awareness campaign for preservation of a hill, which he claims was the seat of meditation of 11th century philosopher Abhinavgupta. "I am here to create awareness about the heritage value of Bairam hills, which houses the caves where Abhinavgupta used to meditate. Illegal quarrying in the area is threatening the existence of the caves," said Vir Saraf, one of the founder members of the organisation Roots in...
Posted 393 days ago.
SRINAGAR, April 21: Pilgrims to the annual Amarnath Yatra will have to undergo a compulsory check-up and furnish a health certificate from a registered medical practitioner when they apply for a permit to make the pilgrimage, Jammu and Kashmir state authorities have said. "The Yatris should undergo a compulsory health check-up and furnish a health certificate from a Registered Medical Practitioner when they apply for a Yatra Permit", Chief executive Officer (CEO), Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, Naveen Choudhary said in...
Posted 394 days ago.
