Himachal Pradesh experienced its second snowfall of the season, leading to the closure of 15 roads, including two national highways. A tourist from New Delhi died in an accident on an icy road in the Lahaul Spiti district, while three others sustained injuries.
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan emphasized the need for constant high military preparedness, citing Operation Sindoor as an ongoing example. He also highlighted the importance of 'information warriors, technology warriors and scholar warriors' in future warfare.
Throwing security machinery into a tizzy, militants, taking advantage of dense fog, cut the barbed-wire fence along the India-Pakistan border for the first time in a bid to carry out infiltration. The incident has prompted the authorities to sound a high alert to thwart any infiltration attempt. Under the cover of thick fog, the militants had cut nine wires on the Pakistani side and ten wires on the Indian side, thereby creating a gap to facilitate infiltration.
The death toll due to the cold wave that has disrupted normal life across north India rose to 326 on Wednesday.Another 38 deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll in the state to almost 300. The dense fog has further added to the problems of the people in the region with Kanpur recording a temperature of 3.7 degree Celsius, the coldest place in the state, followed by Varani, where the temperarure was recorded to be 4 degree Celcius.
Cold wave claimed 204 lives in north India as dense fog returned to the region after a gap of two days affecting flights and trains in the national capital even as parts of Kashmir experienced sub-zero temperatures.
With temperatures dipping below normal and snowfall witnessed in the upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh and the Kashmir Valley, normal life was thrown out of gear for the third consecutive day and over 100 deaths were reported in Uttar Pradesh. The states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have been the worst affected by the intense cold conditions. A dense fog continues to prevail in UP and the maximum temperature was recorded at 2 to 10 degrees Celsius below normal.
'It is clear that nature is not in a mood to give us leeway to be lazy, inefficient or just do business as usual.' 'It is telling us that we have no time to get things wrong. We need to take drastic actions - now
Images from Day 1 of the first Test between Bangladesh and India, in Chittagong, on Sunday.
In the fourth infiltration bid in a week, militants triggered a blast to cut into the border fencing but the Border Security Force troops foiled their attempt after a fierce gunbattle between the two sides in Akhnoor sector of Jammu district in the wee hours on Monday.
The weatherman has predicted a clear sky during the day.
Her husband Raja's body has been discovered, but there is no trace of Sonam Raghuvanshi.
Glimpses from Agra, New Delhi, Gurugram, Kolkata and Mumbai.
Trains and flights were affected due to poor visibility caused by dense fog, official sources said.
Aviation security regulator BCAS on Wednesday slapped fines totalling Rs 1.80 crore on IndiGo and Mumbai airport operator MIAL over the incident of passengers having food on the airport's apron. The apron is the area around the aircraft where it has finally parked for deboarding.
In the short video clip, other crew members could be seen shouting at the passenger after he hit the pilot.
Indian railways has developed its own automatic train protection system called Kavach for enhancing safety of running trains.
"The new aircraft have anti-fog devices, but installing these in older planes is costly," the Airports Authority of India sources said.
It was the coldest city in the plains with the mercury touching 0.3 degree Celsius, four below normal.
Temperatures dropped to nearly zero in some parts of the north.
The visibility in Palam area, where the airport is located, went down to 200 meters early morning, leading to disruption in flight operations.
Delhi recorded a cold wave for the second consecutive day on Friday, with the minimum temperature at Ayanagar in southwest Delhi plunging to a numbing 1.8 degrees Celsius.
A Kolkata-bound luxury bus from Orissa collided with a loaded truck at Baliara National Highway in Howrah district.
Officials hoped to commence play at 1210 IST as the dense fog began to clear out on day three of the India-South Africa Test.
Delhi is likely to record its second-coldest December since 1901 as temperatures are predicted to drop further.
Flight services were severely hit for the first time this winter as airliners had to either reschedule or cancel a number of services to domestic destinations like Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Nagpur, Ahmedabad and Jammu.
A punishing cold wave swept Delhi on Monday morning with the minimum temperature at the Safdarjung observatory, the city's base station, plunging to 1.4 degrees Celsius, the lowest in the month since January 1, 2021.
For the first time, NSG commando will participate in the parade.
The safety and security of citizens is primary for the government, he said.
Finally the winter sun was streaming through the airplane's window, shining gloriously above the thick, frothy blanket of fog.
A helicopter carrying pilgrims from Guptkashi to Kedarnath crashed on Tuesday amid poor visibility and seven people on board are feared dead.
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The incident took place at about 3 am when the truck was returning from Agra, police said.
Mitchell's knock did not prove to be enough as Kohli anchored the chase to take India home in 48 overs.
This is the first time after 25 years, that Himachal received snowfall on Christmas day, officials said.
The incident occurred at around 7.30 pm on December 29 when a massive mound of earth came crashing down on excavators at Lalmatia open cast coal mine of Eastern Coalfields Ltd, the worst such disaster in over a decade.
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Vanessa Bryant said in an Instagram post on Monday that she was both grieving and angry over the loss of her husband, NBA star Kobe Bryant, and 13-year-old Gianna in a helicopter crash last month. Vanessa Bryant, 37, has made few public appearances since the crash that killed her husband, daughter and seven others and said in the social media post that she had been "reluctant" to put her feelings into words.
The accident took place on the Jhajjar bypass in the morning, resulting in a pile-up as multiple vehicles rammed into each other due to reduced visibility caused by dense fog in the area.
The train collided with a goods train amid dense fog. A high-level probe has been ordered into the incident. Passengers with major injuries have been sent to Cuttack Medical College Hospital. All passengers are stated to be out of danger.
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