It was a cold, foggy Sunday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 6.4 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average. Poor visibility due to dense fog led to the cancellation of 18 trains. “A total of 18 trains were cancelled while seven were rescheduled. Forty-three trains were running late …
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January 29, 2018It was a cold, foggy Sunday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 6.4 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average. Poor visibility due to dense fog led to the cancellation of 18 trains. “A total of 18 trains were cancelled while seven were rescheduled. Forty-three trains were running late …
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January 28, 2018It was a misty Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 5.5 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. The Met Office has predicted a clear day ahead. “The morning was misty with shallow fog. The day will mainly be clear,” an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. …
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January 13, 2018It was a misty Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 8 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. The Met Office has predicted a clear day ahead. “The morning was misty with shallow fog. The day will mainly be clear,” an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. …
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January 12, 2018It was a misty Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 8 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. Visibility stood at 800 metres and the humidity was recorded at 87 per cent at 8.30 a.m. The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 23 degrees Celsius. The …
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January 11, 2018It was a foggy morning here on Wednesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 6.8 degrees Celsius, the season’s average, the weather office said. Visibility stood at 800 metres and humidity was recorded at 87 per cent at 8.30 a.m. The Railways cancelled 22 trains while 49 were delayed and three rescheduled due to fog …
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January 10, 2018After a brief respite, the weather turned extremely cold in most parts of Uttar Pradesh, including Lucknow and neighbouring areas on Tuesday, officials said. Fog descended on the state capital since Monday night and continued till early Tuesday morning. The mercury was recorded at 5.5 degrees Celsius. Poor visibility hampered movement on roads and bonfires …
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January 9, 2018A thick blanket of fog engulfed the national capital and its suburbs on the New Year Day with visibility dropping to zero, hitting domestic and international operations at the Delhi airport and delaying trains departing from and arriving to Delhi. With mercury at 5.7 degrees Celsius, dropping a notch below the season’s average on Sunday …
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January 1, 2018It was a misty morning in the national capital on Thursday with the minimum temperature recorded at 7 degrees Celsius, the season’s average. At least 19 trains were cancelled, 26 delayed and seven rescheduled due to fog in several parts of northern India. The humidity in Delhi at 8.30 a.m. was 97 per cent and …
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December 28, 2017Three persons were killed and two others were injured in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti district early on Tuesday after their car rammed into a gas tanker due to dense fog and poor visibility. The accident took place near the Ghaghaula bridge. The Bolero car rammed into a gas tanker parked on the road side, police said. …
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December 19, 2017Smog-induced bad weather conditions have disrupted some 600 flights of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in the first two weeks of November, an airline official said. The smoggy weather conditions, which were prevailing in Punjab province were beyond the PIA’s control, so they had to either delay or cancel the flights, the airline spokesperson was …
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November 16, 2017The state-of-the-art transverse ventilation system in the newly-opened 9.2 km Chenani-Nashri tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway may not be working effectively as commuters are complaining of high pollution levels, eye irritation and suffocation inside what has been labelled as one of India's infrastructural wonders. Some of the commuters using the strategically-important tunnel in Jammu and …
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