23/12/23 | 3:58 pm

Print

Fog descends over northern India amid onset of peak winter season.

Temperatures in the Indian capital were as low as six degrees and in the northernmost territory of Jammu and Kashmir, drinking water pipes froze as temperatures plummeted to minus four degrees.

A common sight was of people sitting around fires, wearing woollens, to warm themselves.

While wintry temperatures in South Asia are mild compared to Europe, they can at times prove deadly in India, where thousands of homeless live in shacks without heat.

(Inputs from Reuters)

RELATED ARTICLES

4 hours ago | Aatmanirbhar Bharat

Rajnath Singh inaugurates 125 border infrastructure projects, BRO’s largest ever single-day launch

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday dedicated 125 newly completed Border Roads Organisation (BRO) infrastructure projects to the nation, marking the highest number and value of inaugurations undertaken by the agency in a single day. The projects...

5 hours ago | AI

AI, Machine Learning to drive power sector transformation: Manohar Lal

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications will play a central role in modernising India's power distribution systems, Union Power Minister Manohar Lal said on Sunday. Speaking at a two-day national conference on AI/ML in the...

7 hours ago | Haryana

Government’s Rs 1 lakh crore RDI Fund to boost private innovation: Jitendra Singh

The Union government’s ambitious ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Fund will play a pivotal role in transforming India into a global innovation hub by drawing the private sector deeper into research and technology developme...