SDRF, Uttarakhand Police teams rescued people stuck at places due to extreme weather conditions. The official information received from SDRF today informed that as many as six people, who were trapped due to snowfall in the Diwalikhal area of Chamoli district were rescued by a team of SDRF. It was informed […]
Read Time : 1 Minutes
Flights at Srinagar Airport delayed due to snowfall
Flights operating from Srinagar Airport were delayed due to low visibility triggered by rain and snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir. “The continued snowfall has reduced the visibility at our airport. The snowfall is likely to continue till 11 am. All operations shall be delayed. Kindly bear with us,” tweeted the Srinagar Airport. The continued snowfall has reduced the visibility at our […]
Read Time : 1 Minutes
Uttarakhand: Higher Himalayan region of Dharchula witnesses snowfall
Higher Himalayan region of Dharchula of Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district witnessed snowfall on Monday. Heavy snowfall following the incessant rain in Darma valley, Panchachuli base and other areas in the higher Himalayan region of Dharchula disrupted the traffic movement. As per information shared by Dharchula Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Anil Kumar Shukla, Lipulekh road has been closed at two places following the snowfall […]
Read Time : 2 Minutes
Army helps pregnant woman reach hospital amid heavy snowfall in J-K
Indian Army’s Torna Battalion conducted an emergency evacuation of a pregnant woman from Jammu and Kashmir’s Sumwali village on Monday and shifted her to primary health care (PHC) centre in Boniyar despite heavy snowfall and treacherous road conditions. The team, along with locals, carried the patient on a stretcher for 5 km and thereafter shifted the patient to […]
Read Time : 1 Minutes
Mussoorie witness heavy snowfall
Mussoorie, the queen of mountains, is witnessing heavy snowfall since Thursday night. The city started receiving fresh snowfall following the incessant rainfall since Thursday morning. As per reports, snow is all over Mussoorie and the hills surrounding it. The snow is falling like a downpour on Mussoorie’s Mall Road. Meanwhile Meteorological department Dehradun forecast that light to […]
Read Time : 2 Minutes
Madrid delays reopening of schools after historic snowfall
Madrid’s regional government yesterday postponed the opening of schools until January 20 because many roads remained blocked a week after Spain’s worst snowstorm in decades. The region’s 2,557 schools had been set to reopen on Monday but access to over half of them, or 57.6 per cent, remains difficult because […]
Read Time : 5 Minutes
Kashmir Valley witnesses season’s first snowfall, Mughal Road closed
The winds blowing from the Mediterranean Sea and their interaction with Maha Cyclone brought the first snowfall of the season in higher reaches of Kashmir on Wednesday, bringing down the temperature across the Himalayan Valley. From early morning, rains lashed most parts of the Valley, including Srinagar and Kupwara, while […]