Chardham yatra not to start till June 30
India | June 09, 2020 15:40 ISTThe Chardham yatra will not be started till June 30. The Devasthanam Board took the decision on Monday, its CEO Ravinath Raman said.
The Chardham yatra will not be started till June 30. The Devasthanam Board took the decision on Monday, its CEO Ravinath Raman said.
The Chardham yatra will begin for devotees on a limited scale from June 8, the Uttarakhand government said on Tuesday. "We are preparing to start the yatra from June 8," Cabinet Minister and state government's official spokesman Madan Kaushik said.
The Chardham yatra is all set for a low-key opening this year with no pilgrims allowed to visit the Himalayan temples of Gangotri, Yamunotri and Kedarnath when their portals reopen in a few days after the six-month winter closure.
Within the Chinyalisaur tehsil, a paved road safety wall was built on the highway just a few kilometres away from the Rajarajeshwari temple but recently the wall here collapsed due to rain.
A bench comprising Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman and Surya Kant modified the National Green Tribunal's September 26, 2018 order by constituting the high-powered committee.
"The leopard of Rudraprayag" had killed 125 people over eight years, according to official records.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's high profile pilgrimage to Badrinath and Kedarnath, the Uttarakhand government has decided to provide uninterrupted power supply to all the four highly revered Chardham shrines.
A woman pilgrim was killed in Kedarnath after being struck by a rock during the ongoing Chardham Yatra in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, authorities said on Sunday.
The 'Chardham Yatra', a six-month-long pilgrimage to four prominent Hindu shrines in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakahand, has begun.
The idol of lord Shiva was moved out of his winter abode at Ukhimath's Omkareshwar temple in a flower bedecked palanquin on Monday to be reinstalled at Kedarnath before the sacred portals of the Himalayan shrine are thrown open on May 9.
"Chardham Yatra" -- the pilgrimage to four Hindu shrines nestled in Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarkahand, begins on Tuesday, on the auspicious Akshay Tritiya day.
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A bench of Justices RF Nariman and S Abdul Nazeer issued notice to Centre and Uttarakhand and sought their reply. It posted the matter for further hearing on November 15.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December 2016 had laid the foundation stone for 900-km-long Chardham highway development project to be built with an investment of Rs 12,000 crore in Uttarakhand.
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Under the Centre’s ambitious Chardham highway project, the four pilgrimage towns -- Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunotri and Gangotri, will be connected by the 900-km long highway.
Dehradun: Uttarakhand government today continued its alerts, following the weather department's forecast of heavy rains in many areas of the state, including the routes of the Chardham Yatra.Chief Minister Harish Rawat has asked all district
Dehradun: Incessant rains from last two days across Uttarakhand triggered landslides and blocked several roads forcing the state administration to suspend the Chardham Yatra.Pilgrimage to Kedarnath was halted due to incessant overnight rains lashing Rudraprayag
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