Srinagar experienced its coldest night of the season at -5.4°C as the cold wave intensified across Kashmir. Sonamarg recorded the valley’s lowest temperature at -9.7°C. Popular tourist spots like Gulmarg and Pahalgam also registered subzero temperatures.
The car with Amarnath Yatra pilgrims onboard met with an accident in Pahalgam district. The victims sustained serious head injuries. meanwhile, the second batch of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims have departed on Sunday.
Jammu and Kashmir weather: Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, recorded a low of minus 4.8 degrees Celsius compared to the previous night's minus 5.2 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperatures in Pahalgam, Gulmarg, Qazigund and Srinagar were around five degrees below normal.
Some videos show places in Jammu and Kashmir and Assam covered in a blanket of snow and hail respectively.
Kashmir: The president of Pahalgam taxi stand said that Akash Farooq Wani, a taxi driver in the tourist resort has returned gold worth Rs 10 lakh to a tourist from Hyderabad.
New Delhi: The Delhi Assembly on Friday observed a two-minute silence to pay homage to the ITBP soldiers. The one-day special session started on a sour note as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs started shouting slogans against the BJP.
Jammu and Kashmir news: The border force, primarily tasked to guard the 3,488 km stretch of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, was part of the comprehensive security deployment for the annual 43-day-long Amarnath Yatra that ended on August 11.
Jammu & Kashmir: A Border Security Force (BSF) helicopter has been pressed to airlift the casualties.
This year's pilgrimage to the cave shrine comes after a hiatus of three years due to coronavirus pandemic.
If you are planning to explore Kashmir, Sonamarg and Dal Lake should be on your bucket list. You can experience trekking, camping, and mountaineering in the valley this summer vacation.
The incident happened after the conclusion of the Rouf Memorial State Rafting Championship events of the day at 4.10 pm. The 3-day event began on June 17, 2019 in which 12 teams from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh participated.
"Dar successfully saved five tourists, including two foreigners, in the true spirit of trademark Kashmiri hospitality," the officials said.
The Met officials said that most of the tourist places in Kashmir, including Gulmarg and Pahalgam, received the snowfall. Traces of snowfall was also witnessed in Srinagar early in the morning, an official said.
Landslides at multiple places have damaged the Kali Mata track, a police official said. This has further forced the suspension of the yatra from Baltal route
Srinagar: The movement of pilgrims to the Baltal base camp, one of the two such of the annual Amarnath Yatra Hindu pilgrimage in Jammu and Kashmir, was on Tuesday stopped due to landslides. "Due to landslide
New Delhi: At least nine persons were killed in incessant rains that swept across vast swathes of North India on Sunday triggering landslides and damaging houses in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and UPwhile
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said the famous tourist resort of Pahalgam has a huge potential to be developed as a leisure-cum-education centre on the pattern of Dalhousie in Himachal
Srinagar, Jul 9 : Four more pilgrims, including two women, died en route the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir taking the toll in the ongoing yatra to 51, officials said here today.Fifty-year-old Jayanta Mukherjee,
Srinagar, Jul 1: Five more devotees died due to cardiac arrest at Pahalgam and Baltal base camps pushing the death toll in the ongoing annual Amarnath pilgrimage to 19. Megha Gupta, aged 24 years, a
Srinagar, Jun30: Residents of Pahalgam today observed a shutdown over the alleged high handedness of CRPF personnel, who went on a rampage following an altercation with taxi drivers at Chandanwari camp.All the business establishments in
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