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  • Recent batch of 6,400 pilgrims depart Jammu camp for Amarnath Yatra

    Via PTI

    JAMMU: Amid tight safety, the 14th batch of 6,400 Amarnath Yatra pilgrims on Wednesday right here left for dual base camps of the three,880-meter-high holy cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, officers stated.

    The yatra, which was once suspended from Jammu because of unhealthy climate on Sunday, resumed on Monday.

    A flash flood brought on by way of a cloudburst close to the cave shrine on Friday afternoon has resulted in the dying of no less than 16 other folks. Round 40 are nonetheless lacking.

    A complete of 6,415 pilgrims left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas right here in a convoy of 258 automobiles amid heavy safety of CRPF, the officers stated. Of those, 4,545 have been males, 1,744 ladies, 43 youngsters, 79 sadhus and 4 sadhvis, they stated.

    The officers stated 2,428 pilgrims heading for Baltal have been the primary to go away the Bhagwati Nagar camp in 88 automobiles round 3.30 am, adopted by way of the second one convoy of 170 automobiles sporting 3,987 pilgrims for Pahalgam at 4.30 am.

    Up to now, over 1.30 lakh pilgrims have introduced their prayers on the cave shrine, housing the naturally shaped ice-shivlingam, the officers stated.

    A complete of 83,073 pilgrims have left from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp for the Valley since June 29, the day the primary batch of pilgrims was once flagged off by way of Lt Governor Manoj Sinha. The yatra is scheduled to finish on August 11, at the instance of Raksha Bandhan.

  • Siachen Glacier melting slower than others in Himalayas

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    BENGALURU: The Siachen Glacier is escaping the top fee of melting that different Himalayan glaciers are experiencing because of the have an effect on of local weather exchange. Because of this the glacier, which is thought of as strategic to each India and Pakistan, is more likely to stay the very best battleground on the earth for lots of extra many years to return than imagined.

    A staff of researchers from the College of Leeds, which studied 14,798 Himalayan glaciers all over and for the reason that Little Ice Age (which passed off between the 14th and nineteenth century) via pc reconstruction of the sizes and ice surfaces of those glaciers, has discovered those glaciers to be melting at a fee ten occasions sooner, shedding round 40 in step with cent in their house — shrinking from a top of 28,000 sqkm to round 19,600 sqkm nowadays.

    Alternatively, famend glaciologist and professor on the Divecha Centre for Local weather Alternate (DCCC) on the Indian Institute of Science, Dr Anil V Kulkarni advised The New Indian Specific that regardless of Himalayan glaciers shedding ice ten occasions sooner than on a mean within the ultimate 400 to 700 years, as discovered via the College of Leeds researchers, Siachen Glacier will stay reasonably strong longer. 

    He defined that the Siachen Glacier, located north of Ladakh and wedged between the Trans Karakoram Tract within the north, Gilgit-Baltistan within the west and Aksai Chin within the east, is within the Karakoram mountain vary and is topic to the “Karakoram anomaly”. This deviation in glacial soften pattern present in Siachen Glacier is a part of an anomalous expansion of glaciers within the central Karakoram, which is against this to the retreat of glaciers in within sight Himalayan levels. This implies glaciers inside the vary — together with Siachen — are reasonably strong, regardless of glaciers in within sight areas taking flight and shrinking sooner because of world warming.