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Pune, Aug 25: Rainfall forecast for next 24 hours at:
East : most places: Arunachal Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Jharkhand, Bihar; many places: Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland-Manipur-Mizoram-Tripura, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha.
North : most places: east Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand; many places: west Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh; a few places: Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir; isolated places: Haryana, east Rajasthan. dry weather: west Rajasthan.
Central : many places: east Madhya Pradesh; a few places: west Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh.
Peninsula : most places: Konkan & Goa, coastal Karnataka; many places: Gujarat Region, Madhya Maharashtra; a few places: Saurashtra & Kutch, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Interior Karnataka; isolated places: Marathwada, Telangana, Rayalaseema Kerala.
Islands : most places: Andaman & Nicobar; a few places: Lakshadweep.
----- Kolkata
Max 33.4 (1.0) dc min 27.6 (1.3) New Delhi
Max 34.4 (0.8) dc min 27.0 (1.0) Chennai
Max 34.7 (0.2) dc min 25.4 (-0.2) Mumbai
Max 29.8 (0.0) dc min 23.5 (-1.5) (PTI)
Jammu, Aug 11: The 40th batch of 68 pilgrims -- the smallest so far -- today left the base camp here for the 3,880 metre high cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, the police said.
The pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar Base Camp in the early hours here under tight security arrangements, a police official said.
He said the pilgrims are scheduled to reach the twin base camps of Baltal in Ganderbal district and Nunwan-Pahalgam in Anantnag district later in the day.
While 55 of the pilgrims including six women are performing the yatra from the shortest 12-km Baltal route, the rest of the pilgrims including four women have opted for the 36-km traditional Pahalgam route, the official said.
The 60-day annual yatra commenced from the twin tracks on June 28 and is scheduled to conclude on August 26 coinciding with 'Raksha Bandhan' festival.
Till last evening, a total of 2,77,215 pilgrims had paid their obeisance at the cave shrine which houses the naturally formed ice-shivlingam.
However, the number of pilgrims undertaking the yatra has marked a sharp dip over the past fortnight owing to early melting of the naturally formed ice-shivlingam at the sanctum sanctorum. (PTI)
Jammu, Jul 28: A fresh batch of 663 pilgrims today left for the cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said.
The 60-day yatra commenced from the twin routes of Pahalgam in Anantnag district and Baltal in Ganderbal district.
Over the past week, the number of pilgrims joining the yatra has marked a sharp dip.
The pilgrims, which included 485 males, 85 females and 93 sadhus left in a convoy of 21 vehicles under tight security arrangements and are expected to reach the twin base camps of Nunwan in Pahalgam and Baltal later in the day, the officials said.
Earlier, a smaller batch of 667 pilgrims left Jammu for the ongoing yatra on July 26.
The yatra is scheduled to conclude on August 26 coinciding with 'Raksha Bandhan' festival.
The annual Amarnath yatra yesterday crossed 2.50 lakh mark as 2,776 pilgrims paid obeisance at the cave shrine of Lord Shiva.
"On the 30th day of the ongoing Amarnath Yatra yesterday, 2,776 yatris paid obeisance at the holy cave. Till date 2,51,996 yatris had the darshan of the Shivling at the holy cave," official said. (PTI)
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