Himachal Pradesh registered four new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the number of active cases to 15 in the state, according to the state health department.
"One boy from Delhi dead after a car carrying 4 people en route to Kullu-Manali from Delhi met with an accident in Kurukshetra due to reckless driving," said police personnel Jiya Singh.
The State Emergency Operation Centre informed that traffic movement along four national highways including the Manali Leh National Highway NH-03, Kullu's Highway NH 705, Kinnaur Highway NH-05 and Lahoul Spiti Highway NH 505 has been hit amid heavy snowfall.
Himachal Pradesh's Malana village on Friday received a fresh round of knee-deep snow during the past 24 hours, said India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials.
Among the flight routes affected by the severe fog were Delhi-San Francisco/Kathmandu, Delhi-Chandigarh-Kullu, Delhi-Jaipur, Delhi-Dharamshala-Chandigarh, Delhi-Shimla- Dharamshala, Delhi-Dehradun.
Delegations and the general public from different parts of the state called on Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu here today and congratulated him on becoming the Chief Minister of the State, an official statement said.