On the agenda of the ongoing monsoon session in Parliament is a bill to introduce Hindi, Kashmiri and Dogri as official languages in Jammu and Kashmir, in addition to English and Urdu. “This has been ...

As per the 2011 Census, the Sikh community comprises 2.03% and Gujjar community 12% of the total population of Jammu and Kashmir. A day after the Union Cabinet passed the J&K Official Languages Bill ...

The Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir have launched a national-level campaign through social networking sites to urge the Centre to include their mother tongue -- Gojri -- in the Eighth Schedule of ...

Former legislator and senior Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) leader Mumtaz Ahmed Khan Sunday appealed to the Centre to include Gojri and Pahari as official languages of the Union Territory. The ...

Spoken by the Gujjars and Bakerwals of J&K, Gojri, which is not taught at school, continues to be marginal even though its speakers are the third largest ethnic group in the state after the Kashmiris ...