In view of the severe cold wave, schools up to classes 8th in Meerut will remain closed till January 17, said District Magistrate Deepak Meena on Sunday.
Shishram Dhaka, the Zonal Director of research at Agricultural Research Station (ARS), Fatehpur-Shekhawati said that -4.7 degree celsius temperature was recorded at Fatehpur-Shekhawati.
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.
According to the Geo-politik, Pakistan, which has severely mismanaged its economy, has now used the pretext of flood devastation and consequent humanitarian crisis to get international assistance.
Jailed conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, prime accused in a Rs 200-crore money laundering case, on Friday wrote to Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena alleging "mental harassment and threats inflicted by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Satyender Jain" to withdraw the complaints filed
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.
Already in the grip of a severe cold spell, there's more bad news in the offing for North India as vast swathes of the region are likely to experience a drop in temperatures to a minimum of -4 degrees Celsius and a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius in the plains, according to a weather expert.
A recent study finds that severe inflammation reduces the body's ability to eliminate malignant blood cells in persons with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).