Tag: Kashmiri pandits

Last Updated: February 15, 2023, 14:45 ISTKashmiri Pandits working under Prime Minister's Development Package (PMDP) being detained by police personnel during a protest, in Jammu (PTI Photo)As the employees assembled in the nearby chowk and started to raise slogans in support of their demands, the police detained nearly 50 ...

A colony of Kashmiri Pandits in Budgam district. File | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD The Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor’s administration on Sunday passed an order to release the salaries of those migrant Kashmiri Pandit employees “who have resumed their duties in Kashmir”, amid ongoing protests by migrant Pandits ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look into the “plight” of Kashmiri Pandit employees who do not want to return to the Kashmir Valley without a guarantee of their security, and accused the Union Territory administration of adopting an “insensitive” approach towards them. In ...

Democratic Azad Party (DAP) president Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said Kashmiri Pandit employees posted in the Valley should be temporarily transferred to Jammu to save their lives in the wake of targeted attacks by terrorists.“A decision has to be taken as per the situation. When the situation improves, ...

There are around six such transit camps across Kashmir where these employees are living. But since Bhat’s killing in May, most of them have left for Jammu where they have been regularly participating in protests against the administration.According to the protesting employees, the J&K government has been withholding their ...

Kashmiri Pandits, working under Prime Minister’s Development Package, raise slogans during a protest demanding their relocation, in Jammu, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday asserted all necessary measures have been taken for the safety of minority community employees ...

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) spokesperson Deepika Singh Rajawat said her party was fully convinced that the BJP and L-G administration had made it a “matter of ego” as they feared that if they succumbed to the pressure of the employees, their “extravaganza of normalcy would be ...

Days after a terror group in Jammu and Kashmir released a hit list of 56 employees belonging to the Kashmiri Pandit community, Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla chaired a review meeting to discuss the security situation and preparedness of security forces in the Union Territory, people familiar with the ...

It is a routine monthly review meeting, an official said.New Delhi: Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Tuesday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said, days after a terrorist group released a "hit list" of 56 employees belonging to the Kashmiri Pandit community. The meeting was ...

It is easier to debate the remarks made against a movie but difficult to hold the government to account regarding the safety of Kashmiri Pandits, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said on Monday amid outrage over the leak of a fresh list of 56 Kashmiri Pandit ...