Fresh snowfall and slippery road conditions blocked the Srinagar-Jammu highway for the second consecutive day on Tuesday.

Brigadier T.P.S. Rawat, chief engineer of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO)

Rain and snow has been forecast again across the Kashmir Valley Sunday and over the next two days, an official said.

The fresh snow and rain is due to the western disturbance, he said.

"We are expec

Thick ice closed vast swathes of the Danube on Thursday, crippling shipping on Europe's busiest waterway, as the death toll from bitter cold across the continent rose to at least 460.

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Hungary's central bank is pulping wads of old notes into briquettes to help heat needy humanitarian organisations, a gesture that has warmed many bodies and hearts amid a deadly cold snap.

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) on W airlifted 313 people of Kargil district who were stranded at Leh and Srinagar as the AN32 courier service to Kargil could not operate for the last two weeks due to incl

Swiss temperatures plunged to minus 35.1 degrees Celsius in the eastern Graubuenden canton on Sunday night, weather agency MeteoSwiss said, the lowest figure recorded so far this year.

The mercury pl

Hundreds of people were rescued on Saturday after a ferry caught in a snow storm hit a breakwater off Italy, as a vicious cold snap that has claimed over 260 lives across Europe tightened its grip.

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Temperatures plunged to new lows in Europe where a week-long cold snap has now claimed more than 220 lives and forecasters warned on Friday that the big freeze would tighten its grip at the weekend.

Record-low temperatures in parts of Eastern Europe pushed the death toll from Arctic conditions to at least 89 people on Wednesday, and have forced Russian gas provider Gazprom to warn over supplies t

A cold snap kept Europe in its icy grip on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 160 as countries from Italy to Ukraine struggled to cope with temperatures that plunged to record lows in some places.

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