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 [...]