<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The 17th batch of Amarnath pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu today for the holy cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas. Police said, the footfall of pilgrims at the shrine located at an altitude of 3,880 metres is expected to cross the two-lakh mark today. Till last evening, 1 lakh 97 thousand 442 pilgrims paid obeisance at the cave shrine.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The 60-day annual yatra began on the twin routes of Baltal and Pahalgam on June 28 and is scheduled to conclude on August 26, coinciding with Raksha Bandhan.</div>