The Highway was affected on Friday as well as the fresh snowfall on Jawahar Tunnel, the gateway to Kashmir, and multiple landslides between Ramsoo and Panthiyal in Ramban district forced the closure of highway.
The langar associations, engaged for the past several years in providing free food to the pilgrims, are disappointed as the order of the SASB does not provide them ample time to set up the community kitchens on the two routes of the pilgrimage.
A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was rushed to the spot to collect samples from the explosion spot and investigate into the incident from all possible angles.
The IAF made a couple of sorties to fly the students from Kashmir to Jammu to facilitate their appearance for the GATE examination.
The avalanche hit the police post on Thursday evening and also blocked the tunnel.
About two to three feet of fresh snow has been recorded at the upper reaches of Kashmir.
Men and machinery of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) were engaged in clearing the snow and landslides.
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir to the rest of the country, remained closed for the second day
