Amid tight security, the eighth batch of over 5,700 pilgrims left from here on Thursday for the twin base camps of 3,880-metre-high cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said
Amid tight security arrangements, the 4th batch of 6,113 pilgrims, including 1,292 women, left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here to pay obeisance at the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath
India is hailing Amarnath Yatra to a holy cave high in the snow-capped mountains of contested Kashmir as an example of communal harmony
The NGT earlier said that declaring the area around the Amarnath cave shrine a "silence zone" would be helpful in preventing avalanches