Doda: Children remove snow near their house after the town received fresh snowfall, at Bhaderwah in Doda district. (PTI photo)
JAMMU: The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed due to overnight snowfall and eight families were moved to safer locations after heavy rains triggered landslides in Gurmul village in Jammu and Kashmir s Doda district, officials said on Saturday.
Nine inches of snow has accumulated on the ground at the Jawahar Tunnel of the highway and the road is blocked at several points due to landslides following rains in Marog, Magerkote and Panthiyal, they said.
Efforts are afoot to ensure early restoration of traffic on the strategic road that links the Kashmir region to the rest of the country, the officials said.
Residents, tourists rejoice season s 1st snowfall in plains of Kashmir Valley ANI | Updated: Dec 12, 2020 15:25 IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 12 (ANI): Srinagar woke up to a mesmerising view of a city covered in a white blanket of snow on Saturday with the plains of the Kashmir Valley receiving the season s first snowfall, bringing hope and excitement among the local people and tourists alike.
The snow brought hope for the local people whose business suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Danish, a taxi driver, hoped the first snow of the season will bring more tourists to the valley. The snowfall is an integral part of the valley s identity. Besides enhancing its beauty, it brings water. Hopefully, the snowfall will also bring more tourists to Jammu and Kashmir this year, said Danish.
Kashmir witnesses season s first snowfall ANI | Updated: Dec 12, 2020 13:47 IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 12 (ANI): Kashmir woke up to a mesmerising view of the valley covered in a white blanket on Saturday after receiving the season s first snowfall, which brought hope and excitement among the local people and tourists alike.
Danish, a taxi driver, hoped the first snow of the season will bring more tourists to the valley and give a much-needed boost to his business, which suffered a setback due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The snowfall is an integral part of the valley s identity. Besides enhancing its beauty, it brings water. Hopefully, the snowfall will also bring more tourists to Jammu and Kashmir this year, said Danish.
Jammu-Srinagar NH blocked due to landslide, snow accumulation ANI | Updated: Dec 12, 2020 11:02 IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 12 (ANI): Jammu-Srinagar National Highway has been blocked due to snow accumulation at Jawahar Tunnel, informed Jammu and Kashmir Traffic Police on Saturday.
Landslides and stone accumulation has also occurred at several places.
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), generally cloudy sky with light rain is expected in Srinagar today as the minimum temperature is recorded at one-degree Celsius and the maximum at 10-degree Celsius.
Srinagar has been covered in a blanket of snow as the temperature has dropped here.
IMD had also forecasted on Friday that fairly widespread to widespread rainfall/snowfall is very likely over Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad and Himachal Pradesh and isolated rainfall/snowfall over Uttarakhand during December 11 and 12
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