Monday 19 August 2013

No pilgrim turned up for the ‪#‎Amarnath‬ Yatra today, the last date for the passage of pilgrims from ‪#‎Jammu‬ to the Kashmir Valley.

Photo: Har Har Mahadev.... Jai Shiv Shankar

NEWS: No pilgrim turned up for the ‪#‎Amarnath‬ Yatra today, the last date for the passage of pilgrims from ‪#‎Jammu‬ to the Kashmir Valley. On Sunday, 19 pilgrims and 20 sadhus proceeded for the yatra from here to the Valley. Officials of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) confirmed that no pilgrim intending to use the 35-km-long track would be allowed to proceed to the cave shrine from Chandanwari yatra camp near ‪#‎Pahalgam‬ towards the cave shrine after Monday morning. However, pilgrims using the north ‪#‎Kashmir‬Baltal route and those intending to avail the helicopter services for the to and fro journey from the south Kashmir route would be allowed till Aug 21, the last day of the yatra. Officials stated that no pilgrims would be allowed to proceed towards the cave shrine from Jammu after Monday. This year, the yatra started June 28 and over 3.5 lakh pilgrims have had 'darshan' of the ice lingam inside the cave.

Another Unpleasant news:

Rajya Rani Express crushes 35 pilgrims to death in Bihar

NEWS: At least 12 people, most of them pilgrims, were crushed to death under the wheels of Saharsa-Patna Rajya Rani Express at Bhamara Railway Station in Bihar on Monday morning. The victims, mostly kanwarias (devotees of Lord Shiva), were standing on the railway tracks at the station when the Rajrani Express hit them at the station under Samastipur division of East Central Raiway.

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