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  UP govt asks Centre to provide meningitis vaccines for Haj pilgrims

  India | September 05, 2013 19:40 IST

  Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government today asked the Centre to immediately provide meningococcal meningitis vaccines, which has been made mandatory for Haj pilgrimage by the Saudi Arab government.In a letter written to Union Health Minister Ghulam

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  Amarnath yatra crosses 5 lakh pilgrim mark

  India | July 17, 2012 19:50 IST

  Srinagar, Jul 17: Over five lakh pilgrims have paid obeisance at the 3,880-metre high cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas since the commencement of the religious voyage last month.“As many as 5,00,586 yatris

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  Amarnath pilgrims death: Concerned SC seeks govt's explanation

  India | July 16, 2012 20:02 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 16: Expressing concern over rising incidents of deaths of Amarnath pilgrims on way to the holy shrine, the Supreme Court has sought explanation from the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir government on

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  Four more Amarnath pilgrims die, death toll 51

  India | July 09, 2012 21:37 IST

  Srinagar, Jul 9 :  Four more pilgrims, including two women, died en route the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir taking the toll in the ongoing yatra to 51, officials said here today.Fifty-year-old Jayanta Mukherjee,