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    • Posts Tagged ‘amarnath’

    Only Registered Pilgrims Will Trek to Kashmir's Amarnath Cave Shrine

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    SRINAGAR: Only registered yatris will be allowed to undertake the pilgrimage to Holy Amarnath cave shrine from June 28 in south Kashmir Himalayas. Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra, who is also chairman of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), instructed the police that only registered yatris are allowed to undertake the yatra this time. He directed the police authorities in Central Kashmir district of Ganderbal and south Kashmir district of Anantnag to ensure that all regulatory measures are undertaken to ensure...

    Posted 6 days ago.

    High-level Meet in Kashmir to Discuss Amarnath Pilgrimage Security

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    SRINAGAR: A high-level meeting today discussed Security and Access Control related arrangements for annual Amarnath Yatra, which is scheduled to commence on June 28, simultaneously from the Baltal and Chandanwari routes. The meeting, chaired by Governor N N Vohra, who is also chairman of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) at Raj Bhawan was attended among others by Chief secretary M I Khanday, Director General of Police Ashok Prasad, Director General CRPF, Major General R R Nimbhorkar, GOC, Victor Force, Maj Gen Rajesh...

    Posted 11 days ago.

    MACHIL ENCOUNTER: Army Allowed to Court-martial Accused

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    Ishfaq Tantry SRINAGAR: Acting on a review petition by the Army in the 2010 Machil “fake” encounter case, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has permitted the Army authorities to try Territorial Army (TA) rifleman Abbas Hussain Shah under the court martial proceedings. The court has given the Army two weeks to take a decision in this regard. Abbas is one of the main accused in the fake encounter case, in which three youths were killed. The Army had...

    Posted 64 days ago.

    SC asks Kashmir to broaden passage leading to Amarnath cave

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    NEW DELHI, Dec 5: The Supreme Court today asked Jammu and Kashmir government and Amarnath Shrine Board to broaden the passage leading to holy Amarnath cave and bifurcate it to make separate way for the movement of pedestrian pilgrims and those who go there on horses. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar asked the state government to give urgent attention to medical, toilet, road and other facilities to the pilgrims and put rubber tiles on the passage near holy caves to prevent pilgrims slipping on...

    Posted 167 days ago.

    SC for 'tiled road' to Kashmir Amarnath shrine

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    New Delhi, Nov 22: The Supreme Court has asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to pave the passage from Panchtarni to Amarnath holy cave with pre-fabricated cement tiles to ensure that pilgrims do not slip on the way. The order is significant in this region where separatists have warned of an agitation if the government built a permanent road to the shrine, 3880m high in the Himalayas and one of the holiest pilgrimage sites for Hindus. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar also said that side support...

    Posted 180 days ago.

    Geelani to launch agitation in Kashmir against Amarnath Shrine board

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    SRINAGAR, Nov 12: Hard-line Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday threatened of an agitation and to mobilize public against the “evil designs of Amarnath Shrine Board”, a day after the separatist amalgams’ “awareness seminar on the working of shrine board” was thwarted by the administration. While presiding over the meeting of executive council of the amalgam, Geelani said that “Delhi is ruling Kashmir and Omer Abdullah is obeying its orders like an employee.” Geelani said the ‘pressure...

    Posted 190 days ago.

    Former Kashmir separatist criticises Geelani's agitation plan

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    Rakib Altaf SRINAGAR, Nov 11: Former separationist and chairman of the People's Conference (PC), Sajad Gani Lone has said he believes long agitations are no longer suitable to press for demands in Kashmir where violence which has lasted for more than two decades is slowly giving way to peace. “There is no need to launch such agitations which scare away tourists and restrict children from going to school. There are many other ways to protest for genuine demands of people,"  Lone told to a...

    Posted 192 days ago.

    Kashmir government takes no chances with Geelani threat

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    SRINAGAR, Nov 2: After hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani refused Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's offer to take a helicopter ride to prove his claim of a road being constructed along the forest trek to the Amarnath shrine, the state government is now trying its best to disprove his charges and ensure he is not able to light protest fires to a "non-issue". Geelani has threatened a march to the Amarnath Yatra base camps as he claims the state government was constructing a concrete road inside the...

    Posted 200 days ago.

    Hurriyat (Geelani) sets up Kashmir panel on agitation plan

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    SRINAGAR, Oct 31: After accusing Government of India and J&K government of pursuing political and communal agenda on the pretext of improving the track to Amarnath cave shrine, Hurriyat (G) has set up a five-member committee to hold wide-ranging deliberations to chalk out its future course of action on the issue. The decision to constitute the committee was taken in an executive body meeting of Hurriyat (G) held on Wednesday. The committee would be headed by General Secretary of Hurriyat (G), Ghulam Nabi Sumji. It...

    Posted 202 days ago.

    Kashmiri Pandits demand construction of Amarnath track on priority basis

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    JAMMU, Oct 31: An organisation representing displaced Kashmiri Pandits today urged the Jammu and Kashmir government to start construction of track from Pahalgam to Amarnath cave shrine on priority basis to avoid pilgrim casualties. "We impress upon the government to initiate action for construction of track from Pahalgam to Amarnath cave shrine on priority basis so as to avoid casualties of the pilgrims," Patron of Soan Kashmir Front, S L Pandita, said at Jagti Migrant camp in outskirts of Jammu city today. Pandita...

    Posted 202 days ago.