The holy silver mace of Swami Amarnath Ji will be led by its custodian Mahant Deependra Giri, who is the Mahant of the Chhari-Mubarak Swami Amarnath.
The Lt Governor interacted with the pilgrims, and enquired about their pilgrimage experience.
Over 1.82 lakh pilgrims had ‘darshan’ inside the holy cave shrine of Amarnath during the last nine days as another batch of 5,803 yatris left for Kashmir on Monday.
The Srinagar-based Chinar Corps of the Indian Army on Thursday evacuated in a helicopter two personnel of Central Armed Police…
The holy 'Chhari Mubarak' (Shiva's silver mace) on Tuesday reached Sheshnag on its way to the cave shrine of Amarnath in the mountains of Kashmir.
Killing of these terrorists has come a day after detection of a Pakistani cross-border tunnel in Jammu for infiltration of terrorists to target Amarnath pilgrims.
The road route for the Amarnath pilgrimage (Pathankot--Jammu--Srinagar highway) passes through Samba near where the tunnel has been detected. The highway is few kilometres from the IB.
Sources in the government said that Union Home Minister is also expected to hold a security review meeting very soon regarding the pilgrimage after the first round of review meetings by Bhalla. Bhalla, accompanied by Director Intelligence Bureau Arvind Kumar, who was on a two-day visit to the Union Territory, returned to Delhi by late Thursday.
Sinha tweeted; "The 43-day holy pilgrimage will commence on 30th June with all covid protocols in place & culminate, as per the tradition, on the day of Raksha Bandhan. We had in-depth discussion on various issues also on upcoming Yatra".
As a mark of faith and devotion, Kanwariyas are often received with warmth and affection by locals they meet along their journey with elaborate arrangements being made for their food and shelter in makeshift tents.
