Tri-lingual Kashmiri dictionary launched

October 3rd, 2009 MATTAN - A fire ritual was performed by a batch of 40 Kashmiri Pandits at the Sun Temple in Ranbirsinghpora in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district for the first time in 700 years on Friday. The All Parties Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC), an organisation of migrant Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir Valley organized the event.

September 29th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir rubbed shoulders and joined hands in celebrating the festival of Dussera on Monday. They together burnt the effigies mythological demons of Ravana his brother Kumbhakarna and son Meghnad and made it a memorable occasion since the revelries of Dussera were witnessed in the Kashmir valley after nearly two decades.

July 16th, 2009 Srinagar, July 16 (ANI): People in Srinagar on Thursday took to streets protesting over two Kashmiri youths, who have been missing since July 7 from New Delhi. According to locals, two Kashmiri students Zahoor Ahmad and Showkat Ahmad Malik have been missing from New Delhi since July 7 and July 9 respectively.

June 7th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir Police resorted to baton charge and fired tear gas shells to quell hundreds of supporters of the radical women's organisation Dukhtaran-i-Milat on Sunday here Members of the Dukhtaran-I-Milat on Sunday took out a mass protest drawing public attention over the alleged incident of rape and murder of two Kashmiri women at Shopian a week ago. Asiya Andrabi, chief of radical Dukhtaran-i-Milat said that their organisation would educate and train the Kashmiri women so that they could protect their dignity.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unhappy at being classified as 'migrants', the Kashmiri Pandits who were forced to leave their homes in the Kashmir Valley boycotted elections Thursday. The Election Commission has not received a single 'M' (Migrant) form, which Kashmiri Pandit migrants have to fill up to be eligible to vote.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unhappy at being classified as 'migrants', the Kashmiri Pandits who were forced to leave their homes in Jammu and Kashmir boycotted elections Thursday. The Election Commission has not received a single 'M' (Migrant) form, which Kashmiri Pandit migrants have to fill up to be eligible to vote.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unhappy at being classified as 'migrants', the Kashmiri Pandits who were forced to leave their homes in the Kashmir Valley boycotted elections Thursday. The Election Commission has not received a single 'M' (Migrant) form, which Kashmiri Pandit migrants have to fill up to be eligible to vote.

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Kashmir's Pandits staged a silent protest here, saying their names were struck off from the voters' list. Most of Kashmiri Pandits live in Jammu, and the rest who fled the region reside mostly in New Delhi and other cities across the country.

April 12th, 2009 AHMEDABAD/JAMMU - Bollywood actor Om Puri joined the campaign trail of Mallika Sarabhai in Gandhinagar, who is pitted against L K Advani, prime ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Om Puri recalled dancer Sarabhai family's contribution to the society.

April 11th, 2009 JAMMU - Bollywood actor Anupam Kher Saturday vowed to work for the empowerment of exiled Kashmiri Hindus and for their return to their homeland with 'honour and dignity'. Kher was speaking at a conference here to draw 'global attention toward the burning issues confronting the Kashmiri Pandits', who fled the Kashmir Valley in early 1990s as Muslim militancy peaked, at times targeting members of the community.

April 3rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Many Kashmiri Hindus celebrated Ram Navami, the birth anniversary of Lord Ram, on Friday with reverence in Srinagar, as this festival brought various devotees together at a Hindu temple here. "We want the older interaction with people, peace, religious understanding and a harmonious world.

April 1st, 2009 SRINAGAR - Separatists in Kashmir have offered to help rebuild and renovate temples damaged during the near two decades militancy. asin Malik, chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Muhammad, said that a committee could be formed for the purpose, stressing that it should be "apolitical".

March 28th, 2009 JAMMU - A migrant Kashmiri Hindus' group Sunday said it would field candidates from two of the six Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. The Jammu Kashmir National United Front, a political party founded by and for the Kashmiri Pandits - Hindus who have always been seen as a political elite in the Muslim majority state - will field its candidates in their original home, the Kashmir Valley.

March 24th, 2009 JAMMU - Displaced Kashmiri Pandits staged a protest in front of the Election Commission office in Jammu, demanding inclusion in the voter's list. Kashmiri Pandits, who have migrant's status in the region, want their names to be included in the voter's list so that they can exercise their franchise in the upcoming general elections.

March 8th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A documentary portraying the ordeal of displaced Kashmiri Hindus was screened here Saturday evening, followed by the inauguration of a photo exhibition highlighting the manner in which hundreds and thousands of migrants are living far away from their homeland. The event was organised by Roots in Kashmir (RIK) - a Kashmiri Pandit organisation - at the Panjab University (PU) campus.