JAMMU — A bus carrying pilgrims of the Amarnath yatra caught fire on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district on Thursday, prompting a swift rescue operation in which all 47 occupants were evacuated safely, officials said. The sleeper bus carrying pilgrims from Rajasthan was on its way to Jammu from Srinagar, after the devotees […]
JAMMU — Amid tight security escort, the fifteenth batch of pilgrims of over 5,000 devotees left Jammu on Thursday for the twin base camps of the annual Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir. More than 3.25 lakh pilgrims have offered prayers at the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine till now. The fresh batch of pilgrims 5,201 had 92 sadhus, […]
JAMMU — A fresh batch of 6,251 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here early Wednesday for the twin base camps of the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir amid multi-tier security arrangements, officials said. The 14th batch comprised 3,266 pilgrims heading for the traditional 48-km Pahalgam route in the Anantnag district, while 2,985 […]
JAMMU — A fresh batch of 5,335 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base-camp here early Tuesday for the annual Amarnath yatra in south Kashmir. More than 2.77 lakh pilgrims have paid obeisance at the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine till now. The 13th batch included 3,911 men, 1,288 women and 21 children. According to officials, 1,736 pilgrims […]
JAMMU — Amid tight security, over 7,700 devotees departed from Jammu on Monday in the twelfth batch for the twin base camps of the annual Amarnath Yatra in the Kashmir Valley. So far, more than 252,000 pilgrims have paid their respects at the ice Lingam of Lord Shiva, located at the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine. Officials […]
JAMMU — A fresh batch of 9,153 pilgrims, including 2,345 women, departed from the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas base camp in Jammu early Sunday to join the annual Amarnath Yatra in the south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. The pilgrims, travelling in 359 vehicles, left for the twin base camps of Baltal in Ganderbal district and […]
JAMMU — The 10th batch of 9,182 pilgrims, including 2,435 women, left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here on Saturday to pay obeisance at the holy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. The pilgrims also included 256 sadhus, 46 sadhvis and 31 children. They left for the twin base camps of Nunwan-Pahalgam […]
JAMMU — Six Amarnath pilgrims were injured, one of them critically, when a vehicle carrying them overturned on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Udhampur district on Friday, officials said. The accident took place near Toldi Nallah on the Udhampur-Chenani stretch of the highway when the vehicle carrying the pilgrims to the Pahalgam base camp skidded […]
JAMMU — A ninth batch of 8,796 pilgrims, including 33 foreigners, left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here on Wednesday for the annual Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district amid multi-tier security, officials said. More than 1.73 lakh pilgrims have had ‘darshan’ of the naturally formed ice ‘lingam’ of Lord Shiva at the […]
JAMMU — A batch of 8,150 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here for the Amarnath cave shrine in Kashmir on Thursday, amid tight security, officials said. With this, a total of 52,816 pilgrims have left the Jammu base camp for Kashmir since the yatra commenced on July 2, the officials said. Thursday’s batch […]