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Amarnath Yatra begins as pilgrims set out from Baltal, Nunwan base camps

Amarnath Yatra begins as pilgrims set out from Baltal, Nunwan base camps

Srinagar, Jul 3 (PTI) The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Thursday with the first batches of pilgrims setting off from the twin base camps in Baltal and Nunwan towards the 3880-metre-high cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas, which houses a naturally formed ice-lingam, officials said. The yatra started early morning from the twin tracks […]

 Press Trust of India

LG flags off first batch of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims from Jammu

LG flags off first batch of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims from Jammu

Multi-tier security cover put in place, say officials Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday flagged off the first batch of Amarnath pilgrims numbering over 5,880 amid multi-tier security cover, marking the beginning of this year’s pilgrimage from here. The 38-day pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre high shrine will commence on July 3 from the Valley […]

 Press Trust of India

Amarnath yatris on way to shrine get warm reception from locals

Srinagar: Local authorities gave a warm welcome to the first batch of Amarnath yatra pilgrims at several places in Kashmir, as hundreds of them turned up at in the valley Wednesday. The first batch of 5,892 yatris was flagged off from the yatra base camp in Bhagwati Nagar in Jammu by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. […]

 KV News

Kashmir records slight relief from heatwave conditions

12 stations record deficit rainfall, MeT predicts rains from July 5 Srinagar: As Jammu and Kashmir braces for the light to moderate from July 5, the region has witnessed slight relief from the scorching heat as the maximum temperatures plummeted by a few degrees on Wednesday. According to the details the summer capital of Jammu […]

 Press Trust of India

Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan, CM Omar Abdullah jointly review Animal Husbandry, fisheries sector

SRINAGAR: Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Rajiv Ranjan Singh and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday jointly chaired a high-level review meeting of the Animal Husbandry and Fisheries sectors of Jammu & Kashmir here at Srinagar, Civil Secretariat. The meeting was attended by Minister for Agriculture Production & Panchayati Raj Javid Ahmad […]

 Press Trust of India

Quad calls for punishing perpetrators of Pahalgam attack

Washington: The Quad grouping has called for bringing the perpetrators, organisers and financiers of the Pahalgam terror attack to justice without any delay and urged UN member nations to extend cooperation for it. The four-nation grouping reaffirmed its commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific that is free from “coercion” and strongly opposed any unilateral […]

 Press Trust of India

No hesitation in wiping out terrorists, wherever they are: Rajnath

Patna: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday asserted that the Narendra Modi government will not hesitate to eliminate terrorists, wherever they are, and that no distinction will be made between masterminds and the regimes which sponsor them. The former BJP president’s stern message to Pakistan, without mentioning the neighbouring country by name, came in his […]

 Press Trust of India

Joint educational initiatives: IIM-Jammu signs MoU with UK-based institute

Jammu: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Jammu has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Sheffield University Management School in the United Kingdom, marking a significant step forward in its global academic engagement and collaborative initiatives, an official said on Wednesday. The MoU aims to foster mutual cooperation and facilitate academic collaboration in areas […]

 Press Trust of India

Traders’ delegation from Jammu meets Lt Guv

Demands more counters for registration of Amarnath pilgrims Jammu: A delegation of the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) on Wednesday met Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha here and raised various demands, including increasing the number of counters for Amarnath pilgrim registration. The six-member delegation led by JCCI president Arun Gupta apprised the Lieutenant Governor […]

 Press Trust of India

Centre launches unified flood forecasting system

New Delhi: Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil on Wednesday launched C-FLOOD, a web-based flood forecasting system, designed to sound an alarm at the village level up to two days in advance. The system has been developed by the Central Water Commission (CWC), the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), and the National […]