Fog unabated in India, rail traffic remains paralyzed

Chandigarh:Cold conditions continued unabated in Punjab and Haryana as a blanket of fog enveloped most places in the two states, hitting train and flight operations.
Several trains including Shatabdi Express from New Delhi was delayed by 1.04 hours, a railway spokesperson said, adding, Howrah-Kalka Mail is running late by 11.48 hours. Four flights – two of Jet Airways from and to Delhi and one each of Jet Airways from Mumbai and Indigo from Bangalore were cancelled, while a number of other flights were expected to arrive here behind schedule, an official said.
Hisar was the coldest place in Haryana today, recording a minimum temperature of 1.8 degrees Celsius which is four notches below normal, an MeT official said. Amritsar was the coldest place in Punjab recording a temperature of 2.8 degree Celsius while Chandigarh settled at 6.2 degree Celsius. In Haryana, Gurgaon, Bhiwani and Rohtak recorded minimum tempe-ratures of 2.3, 2.6 and 2.6 degree Celsius respec-tively.
The minimum tempera-tures in Ambala, Faridabad, Karnal, Kurukshetra and Sirsa settled between five and six degrees Celsius. Jalandhar and Kapurthala in Punjab recorded tempera-tures at 3.8 degrees Celsius each even as Bathinda and Ferozepur’s low settled at 4.3 degree Celsius each. Anandpur Sahib, Ludhiana, Pathankot and Patiala recorded a low of around six degree Celsius. (PTI)