The Iowa-based institutions of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have said about only five per cent of the 2,600 Vedic pandits, who were brought to the United States from north Indian villages, have gone missing in recent years.
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Hurriyat Conference leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Bilal Lone were on Thursday manhandled allegedly by a group of Kashmiri Pandit activists who stormed a seminar being attended by them in Chandigarh.
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"The holy water of the Sharda Kund at the Sharda Peeth PoK was collected by Tanveer Ahmed and his team. Our civil society member across the LoC (Line of Control) carried it to Islamabad, wherefrom it was sent to his daughter Maghribi in the UK.
Here's a rare image of the former PM Jawaharlal Nehru practising the shirasana.
Hurriyat softliners to meet Pandit leaders in Jan
Asserting that religion should not used to get political mileage, Azad said whoever takes refuge in religion in politics is weak.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said he wants the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance to win 400 seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls to ensure the Congress does not bring back Article 370 in Kashmir and put a 'Babri lock' on the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
As many as 3,655 displaced Kashmiri pandits would exercise their right of franchise in four assembly segments of Kupwara district which go to polls in the third leg of the seven-phase elections in Jammu and Kashmir on November 30.
The sitar exponent, perhaps could be called India's musical ambassador and was responsible for making Indian classical music popular in the West.
For the first time in its history, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly will not have a representative from the Kashmiri Pandit community.
In a flip-flop, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Thursday told the assembly that his government has no plans to set up separate clusters for settlement of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley.
Terming the displacement of Pandits from the Valley as "one of the darkest chapters" in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah asked the displaced people for "forgiveness."
Kashmiri Pandits should be brought back and their views taken into consideration said advocate, social activist Prashant Bhushan, who is also a core committee member in Anna Haraze's team on Saturday, at the San Francisco Bay Area.
The kin of several of those killed by militants in the late '80s also say they do not have enough resources now to buy back the properties they had left behind after the killings at that time.
He said one of the objectives of the new National Education Policy, unveiled in 2020, was to reduce academic stress on students.
Citigroup plans to launch a $200 million fund for small-business lending in low and moderate income communities.
Citigroup's Indian origin CEO Vikram Pandit, who has been on a major restructuring drive, including thousands of layoffs, since taking charge late last year, has asked his colleagues to help transform the "best financial institution" into the world's top-most company.
He quit after another executive was appointed co-presidents bypassing him.\n
Appearing before the US house financial services committee along with seven other top US CEOs of companies which received a bailout fund from the federal government, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit said, "My compensation for the year 2008 was my salary, which is $ 1 million. I received no bonus. And as I stated earlier, I plan to take a $ 1 a year in salary and no bonus until we return to profitability."
"I owe it to Veer Savarkar, to his spirit, to his legacy and to his untold story so that I tell it well and it reaches people, and people absorb it and feel what he went through and all the sacrifices that he made, which have been brushed under the carpet."
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday expressed apprehension that the 2024 Lok Sabha elections would be the last opportunity for the people to save democracy, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi might prefer dictatorship in case his party wins the upcoming polls.
Gautam Gambhir's captaincy had once helped Kolkata Knight Riders carve its own niche with two IPL titles in the last decade and as the former India opener starts his new journey as a 'Team Mentor', the endeavour is to put them in a better position compared to current situation.
The job of running crisis-ridden Citigroup is still with India-born Vikram Pandit, who revived the American behemoth's years-old tag line -- Citi Never Sleeps -- but had to seek help worth billions of dollars from the US government to keep the bank afloat.
A blog linked to TRF, an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, published the list of 56 Kashmiri Pandit employees who were recruited under the Prime Minister's Rehabilitation Package, and warned of mounting attacks on them.
The KKR think-tank might not be unduly worried as their campaign is still at a nascent stage, but they would like to see the first-choice pacer and spinner finding their range at the earliest.
'It's about assessing the conditions and what we are going to face tomorrow. What's happened in the past is not necessarily what will happen in the future.'
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'The concern is about the dignity and future of Laxmi Pandit and we cannot decide in haste,' A P Parigi, managing director, Times Infotainment Media Limited, said.
Nine migrant Pandit families returned to their south Kashmir native village after 18 long years. Thousands of local Hindus migrated out of the Kashmir valley with the beginning of the ongoing militancy in Kashmir in 1990. The Prime Minister in March announced a relief and rehabilitation package of Rs 7.5 lakhs and a government job for each family returning to the valley.
After spending 20 years in squalid camps in Jammu, the Kashmiri Pandits, who fled their native Kashmir valley to escape ethnic cleansing, will finally move into a new township. But they are not home yet. Archana Masih reports from Jammu on the torment of the Pandits in exile, which remains one of contemporary India's worst tragedies.
Citigroup Inc is closing a hedge fund co-founded by chief executive officer Vikram Pandit, 11 months after the bank bought the fund management company for more than $800 million.
The go-ahead given to prosecute Arundhati Roy would be seen by supporters of freedom of speech as an announcement that the Right-Wing doesn't feel humbled by the results of the elections, argues Shyam G Menon.
The external affairs minister, speaking at a media summit organised by the TV9 Network, described the rise of India and China as "significant" in the global geopolitical scenario.
Ram Navami was celebrated on Thursday with fervour across the country, with processions taken out in different states.
