Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha laid the foundation stone of transit accommodation for Kashmiri Pandit Employees in the Zewan area of Srinagar on Friday.
Marking the occasion of Exodus Day, filmmaker Ashoke Pandit on Monday paid tribute to the Kashmiri Pandits by screening his documentary 'Kashmiri Pandito Ka Narsanghar' in Mumbai, which was attended by Anupam Kher.
Veteran actor Anupam Kher, who played the protagonist in the blockbuster 'The Kashmir Files', which documents the alleged genocide and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley, on Tuesday expressed the excitement of his film have made it to the Oscars 2023 reminder list.
Questioning the safety of the Kashmiri Pandits, he said that life is more important than employment and the government should transfer Kashmiri Pandits to Jammu.
"We wanted a discussion on it (in Parliament). There is a problem between India and China in that area and Ladakh. We hope a dialogue will be able to sort this out but we cannot say. We should keep our powder dry for anything can happen at any time," said NC leader Farooq Abdullah.
In the backdrop of ongoing exodus of Kashmiri Pandits taking place from the valley due to targeted terror attacks, Congress wants discussion on Jammu and Kashmir.
A total of nine Kashmiri Pandits were killed in the Kashmir Valley during 2020 to 2022, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Saturday said that there are no "top commanders" of terrorists in the region while stating that 44 of them have been neutralized this year.
A curative petition filed by Roots, a Kashmiri Pandit-based NGO was dismissed by the Supreme Court on Thursday. The petition sought a probe into the killing of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley in 1989-90, during the heights of militancy.