amarnath yatra

NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Three days after the tragedy struck the Amarnath Yatris near the holy cave, Shri Amarnath Ji Shrine Board estimated that over 40 people are still missing. Sources in Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), who are involved in rescue operations with other agencies, told The New Indian that a total of 47 RFID […]

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday met with the family members and relatives of two women pilgrims who died in the Amarnath cloudburst incident at their residence in Delhi. Beermati (55) and Prakashi (61) were relatives and lived in the same locality in Madangir. On Friday, their family members received information about […]

SRINAGAR: The Amarnath Yatra remained suspended as the rescue operations were still going on to locate missing pilgrims. On Friday evening, a flash flood following a cloudburst washed away a base camp near the Amarnath cave leading to the death of 16 yatris while more than 40 people were injured. The Amarnath Yatra has been […]

  SRINAGAR: They have been bravely defending our borders and fighting terrorists, but the Indian armed forces are also at the forefront of any natural disaster in the country. It was not surprising that security forces once again carried out rescue operations for the Amarnath Yatris who faced the brunt of nature in the cloudburst […]

SRINAGAR: In a major success ahead of the Amarnath Yatra two militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Monday. IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar termed the operation important as the encounter site is very close to the Amarnath yatra […]

SRINAGAR: With the terror threats looming over the Shri Amarnath Yatra, the security forces and the organisers are going all out to ensure the safety of the pilgrims. In the wake of threats, the movement of all the devotees will be monitored on an hourly basis as the Radio Frequency Identity Tags (RFIDs) have been […]

SRINAGAR: Security forces gunned down two terrorists including, one who was involved in the killing of a bank manager in the same district last month, during an overnight anti-terror operation in Kulgam district of south Kashmir, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Zone Vijay Kumar said. “ShopianEncounterUpdate: 02 terrorists linked with proscribed #terror outfit LeT killed. […]

  NEW DELHI: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting with top officials and reviewed preparations for the Amarnath Yatra 2022. The annual pilgrimage is slated to start on June 30 and will culminate on August 11 of the current year. Amarnath Yatra will commence after a gap of […]

SRINAGAR: Dealing a major blow to terrorist designs in Kashmir, security forces have killed one of the oldest surviving terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen Ashraf Molvi in an encounter in Pahalgam in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday. Along with Molvi, a top A++ category terrorist, the forces also killed two other terrorists in the encounter […]