Severe damage to road where wall of bridge collapsed: SSP Traffic
SRINAGAR: The traffic deadlock on the Srinagar-Jammu highway is yet to end with the authorities saying on Monday that the traffic on the vital road will remain suspended for at least five more days due to the collapsing of the retaining wall of a bridge near Jawahar Tunnel.
The highway was thrown open to traffic on Sunday after remaining shut for seven days due to snowfall, landslides and shooting stones. The same evening the retaining wall of the bridge at Kela Morh, in Ramban district, collapsed, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded.
Snow In January
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A view of Lal Chowk during heavy snowfall, in Srinagar, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
As the year’s first snowfall draped Kashmir, beginning on January 2, life came to a standstill with people and the administration both choosing to stay homes till sunshine brought back the sheen to the streets.
The people reacted to the snowfall as per their own requirements: tourists were happy that they will have fun;
Harisa-makers were excited that they will have better footfalls; workers in PDD, SMC, and the PHE had their share of the crisis in managing the impact of the mess. People, by and large, were tense because snow, especially a heavier fall, seriously compromises the services. That was perhaps why, amidst a congratulatory campaign on social media, people responded in a way as if a calamity had hit Kashmir.
Dense fog engulfs Jammu, temp goes down
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SRINAGAR /JAMMU, Jan 9: Temperature plummeted across Valley while fresh snowfall in Kashmir disrupted air traffic, the winter capital city witnessed sharp decline in day temperature due to dense fog for the last couple of days, six flights were cancelled at Jammu airport due to poor visibility and snow at Srinagar airport.
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway witnessed massive traffic jam in Udhampur, Chenani and Ramban sectors as the authorities cleared all the stranded vehicles on both the sides. No fresh movement of vehicles from Jammu or Srinagar side was allowed today by the Traffic Police authorities.
Snowfall in Himachal, minimum temperatures in northern plains hover above normal levels
Snowfall in Himachal, minimum temperatures in northern plains hover above normal levels
NEW DELHI, Jan 7: Himachal Pradesh received snowfall while the minimum temperatures in many parts of north India hovered above normal levels on Thursday, even as the IMD predicted rainfall in many southern states.
In the south, the Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority sounded a yellow alert in the coastal and Malnad regions as the upper air cyclonic circulation brought heavy showers in many parts of the state.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said heavy to very heavy rainfall was observed at isolated places over Kerala and Mahe while heavy rainfall also occurred over isolated coastal and south interior Karnataka, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema.