Kashmir Valley braces for severe 40-day winter

Sub-zero temperature in Kashmir has slowed down daily life and many areas were cut off as a result of fresh snowfall and slippery road conditions. Srinagar, reeling under sub-zero temperatures, recorded minus 3.2 degrees Celsius, 2 degrees below normal, the previous night. As temperatures take a nosedive with each passing day, people start their day late in the morning, with window panes of vehicles covered in frost and the Dal lake’s fringes forming a sheath of ice. “I am posted at Tral in south Kashmir. It takes me half an…

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