Data | Patterns of violence in the Kashmir Valley

[ad_1] Violence in the Kashmir Valley: Bullet-ridden glass after an encounter with security forces that left two terrorists dead two days after a Kashmiri Pandit was killed, in Pulwama on Feb. 28, 2023. An Army jawan was also killed. Targeted killings against Kashmiri Pandits and minorities in the Kashmir Valley have been on the rise. […]

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Kashmiri Muslims need to protect Pandits from assailants: Mehbooba Mufti

[ad_1] Jammu and Kashmir Peoples’ Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti. File | Photo Credit: ANI Former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on February 27 appealed to Kashmiri Muslims to “provide safety to the minority community members and save them from attackers,” as she visited the family of […]

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Nadav Lapid | The Israeli filmmaker who criticised ‘The Kashmir Files’ at IFFI

[ad_1] The story so far: Critically acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid has found himself at the centre of a controversy after he described director Vivek Agnihotri’s film ‘ The Kashmir Files’ as “vulgar” and “propaganda” at the closing ceremony of the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) late on Monday, November 28. Mr. Lapid, […]

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Controversy erupts over Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s comments on ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie

[ad_1] A man walks past a poster of the movie “The Kashmir Files” outside a cinema in Mumbai, India, March 16, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, the jury head of the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), on Monday described Hindi film ‘The Kashmir Files’ as “propaganda” and “vulgar”. In […]

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Controversy erupts over Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s comments on ‘The Kashmiri Files’ movie

[ad_1] A man walks past a poster of the movie “The Kashmir Files” outside a cinema in Mumbai, India, March 16, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, the jury head of the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), on Monday described Hindi film ‘The Kashmir Files’ as “propaganda” and “vulgar”. In […]

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Civilian shot dead, brother injured in militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian

[ad_1] Militants shot dead a civilian and injured another, both members of minority Hindu community, in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday.  According to the police, terrorists fired upon civilians in an apple orchard in Chotipora area of Shopian.  Also read | Policeman, injured in Srinagar shootout, dies: J&K Police  Police has confirmed that one […]

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A month after Rahul Bhat’s killing, over 5,400 Pandit employees refuse to join duty in Valley

[ad_1] More than 5,000 Kashmiri Pandit employees, recruited under the Prime Minister’s special employment package since 2008, continued to stay away from offices in the Valley on Monday, even as a month has passed since a Pandit employee was shot dead by militants in his office in Budgam.  However, top government officials were hopeful that […]

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Kashmiri Pandits flee Kashmir Valley

[ad_1] Hundreds of fear-stricken Kashmiri Pandits left the Valley for Hindu-majority Jammu district on Friday even as the Centre turned down their demand of relocation. Amid this, a prominent Pandits’ body, the Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS), in an open letter to the J&K Chief Justice, sought his intervention to allow frightened Pandits to leave the […]

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