SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Anantnag Amod Ashok Nagpure on Thursday ordered the disengagement of a Special Police Officer (SPO) from service for alleged gross dereliction of duty during the ongoing Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra-2026. According to a police statement, the SPO, identified as Shabir Ahmad Ganie, son of Abdul Hamid Ganie, […]
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 […]
SRINAGAR — PDP leader Iltija Mufti on Wednesday said quality and preservation of the cave shrine of Amarnath must take precedence over quantity as the ongoing annual yatra crossed the one-lakh mark in the first five days of the pilgrimage. More than 1.15 lakh pilgrims have paid obeisance at the ice lingam of Lord Shiva […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district have suspended four teachers for alleged irregularities in the annual Amarnath yatra duties, officials said on Wednesday. “District Administration Ganderbal has taken cognisance of certain irregularities which occurred in connection with the on-spot registration process for Shri Amarnathji Yatra pilgrims at the Manigam Transit Camp,” an […]
SRINAGAR — Three over-ground workers of terrorists were apprehended in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district with the help of Facial Recognition System (FRS) deployed for the ongoing Amarnath Yatra, police said on Wednesday. The FRS installed by Anantnag Police generated timely alerts regarding three suspicious individuals while they were passing through the Sarbal area, demonstrating […]
JAMMU — A fresh batch of 9,837 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here for the annual Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir, amid tight security on Wednesday, officials said. They said this is the largest batch of pilgrims so far this year, comprising 7,004 men, 2,810 women, 21 children and two transgender persons. While 4,480 […]
JAMMU — A fresh batch of 5,794 pilgrims, including 1,211 women, departed from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here early Monday for the annual Amarnath Yatra, officials said. Around 60,000 pilgrims have offered prayers at the holy cave shrine since the yatra began on July 3, they said. The officials said the fifth batch included […]
JAMMU — A fresh batch of over 6,700 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp early on Sunday for the Amarnath shrine in South Kashmir Himalayas under tight security, officials said. The batch, including 1,310 women and 22 children, left the Jammu base camp in two separate convoys at 3 a.m. and 3.40 a.m., the […]
JAMMU — The third batch of 4,812 pilgrims left Bhagwati Nagar base camp here in two separate convoys on Saturday to join the annual Amarnath pilgrimage in Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. There were 966 women in this latest batch. More than 12,000 pilgrims offered prayers at the 3,880 metre-high cave shrine on the first day […]
JAMMU — Amid tight security, the second batch of more than 3,800 pilgrims left the Jammu base camp on Friday for the Amarnath cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. The 57-day pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high Amarnath cave shrine started on Friday morning simultaneously via the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route in the Anantnag […]