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North India Reels Under Cold Wave, 154 Dead
Outlook
India
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Cold wave claimed 157 lives across north India
even as its intensity slightly abated today after the sun came
out lifting the fog and raising temperature in parts of Punjab,
Haryana and Chandigarh.
The 300-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway, the only road linking
Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, reopened after
being closed for two days due to heavy snowfall.
Severe cold conditions claimed 37 more lives since last night
with Uttar Pradesh alone accounting for 31 deaths. The six other
casualties were reported from Bihar.
While five persons each died in Deoria and Maharajganj, four
deaths each were reported from Siddharth Nagar and Bhadoi, two
each from Pratapgarh, Kushinagar, Basti, Jaunpur and Ghazipur
and one each from Lucknow, Sitapur and Muzaffarnagar, taking
the toll to 141 in Uttar Pradesh this winter, official sources
said in Lucknow.
With let up in snow and rains, night temperature improved in
Jammu and Kashmir barring Ladakh region where mercury dipped
to minus 18 degrees Celsius in Leh and minus 16.8 deg C in Kargil
district. The minimum temperature in Srinagar this morning was
2 deg C, four degrees above normal.
Pahalgam, a hill resort of south Kashmir, recorded a low of
minus 2.9 deg C today.
The national capital remained under the grip of intense cold
wave as chilly northwesterly winds from the Himalayas considerably
brought down the maximum temperature, which was recorded at
14 deg C -- eight degrees below normal. It was the lowest of
the season so far.
Minimum temperature climbed to 9.3 deg C after the sun came
out giving some comfort to Delhiites reeling under severe cold
conditions for the past one week.
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money, that will herald the end of the republic."
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INFOWARS:
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