{"id":54846,"date":"2024-07-01T05:33:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T05:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=54846"},"modified":"2024-07-01T05:33:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T05:33:24","slug":"new-batch-of-pilgrims-departs-for-amarnath-shrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/new-batch-of-pilgrims-departs-for-amarnath-shrine\/","title":{"rendered":"New Batch of Pilgrims Departs for Amarnath Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>JAMMU, Jul 1:<\/strong> A fresh batch of pilgrims departed for the Amarnath shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas on Monday, officials reported. Over 28,000 pilgrims have paid their respects at the 3,880-meter high cave shrine as of Sunday night. The fourth batch, consisting of 6,461 pilgrims, left at 3:15 am in 265 vehicles, escorted by security personnel, heading towards the twin base camps of Baltal and Pahalgam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of these pilgrims, 4,140 chose the 48-km traditional Pahalgam route, while 2,321 opted for the shorter but steeper 14-km Baltal route. Since June 28, when Lt Governor Manoj Sinha flagged off the first batch, a total of 19,564 pilgrims have departed from the Jammu base camp for the valley. The 52-day-long yatra, which began on June 29, will conclude on August 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU, Jul 1: A fresh batch of pilgrims departed for the Amarnath shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas on Monday, officials reported. Over 28,000 pilgrims have paid their respects at the 3,880-meter high cave shrine as of Sunday night. The fourth batch, consisting of 6,461 pilgrims, left at 3:15 am in 265 vehicles, escorted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,54],"tags":[1901,1032,128,1033,1328],"class_list":{"0":"post-54846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jammu","8":"category-kashmir","9":"category-latest-news","10":"tag-amarnath-shrine","11":"tag-earlypostdaily","12":"tag-jammu-and-kashmir","13":"tag-latestnews","14":"tag-pilgrims"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54848,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54846\/revisions\/54848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}