Jammu Tawi, April 9 -- The displaced Kashmiri Pandits, clad in colourful pherans and carrying 'thals', celebrated Navreh, the first day of the New Year according to the Kashmiri Hindu calendar, in Jammu on Tuesday.

They vowed to make concerted efforts to celebrate the festival in the valley next year.

Miles away from their homes in Kashmir, which they left in 1990 due to terrorism, they celebrated the 35th Navreh in exile. The Saptarishi calendar entered its 5100th year on Navreh.

"We congratulate the people of India, particularly the nine communities celebrating the New Year (Nav-varash) today. We congratulate the Kashmiri Pandits, whose 5100th year of the Saptarishi Hindu calendar has started today," former legislator Ajay Bharti tol...