According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), visibility at Delhi-Palam was reduced from 400 meters at 2:00 am to 100 meters at 2:30 am on Sunday, and it further reduced to 0 meters since 3:00 am.
BJP leader and former Himachal Pradesh Health Minister Rajiv Saizal has said that the party has started the registration process for special 'Aastha trains' for devotees from the state keen to visit the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
The movement of commuters to and from the National Capital was affected on Saturday morning as several flights and trains were delayed due to low visibility amid severe cold conditions in Northern India.
The arrival of nearly two dozen passenger trains to the national capital was delayed by up to 6 hours or more, and several flights were also late due to fog and poor visibility conditions.
Severe cold continued to prevail across North India, with the mercury recorded in single digits in several states and dense fog and low visibility affecting commuters in the early hours of Thursday.
Talking to the reporters, Kejriwal said, "We will make efforts to run more trains for Ayodhya (from Delhi) after the 'pranpratishtha' ceremony on January 22. They had said that a final invitation would be given by their team but we did not receive it. In the letter received earlier, it wa
Flight movement to and from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport remained affected on Wednesday with around 120 flights including international ones getting delayed by several hours. Around 53 flights were also announced cancelled due to fog and operational issues.
As the national capital woke to freezing weather on Tuesday, around 30 flights departing from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport were delayed and 17 were cancelled due to weather conditions, airport officials said.
On Friday, the city saw the season's first cold wave day, which, according to the India Meterological Department, is recorded when the minimum temperature goes below 4 degrees Celsius.