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Cold kills 4 in Rajasthan

The cold wave has claimed four lives in Rajasthan this season, with two people succumbing in Jaipur and Dungarpur districts overnight.

The police said a man was found dead near the railway crossing at Civil Lines in Jaipur while a vegetable vendor died in Sabala, Dungarpur -- both on Sunday.

Earlier, deaths from cold had been reported in Bhilwara and Alwar districts.

Meanwhile, the cold wave sweeping most of the North-West for the past five days intensified with night temperatures falling to 5 to 10 degrees celsius below normal.

Chandigarh and adjoining areas in Punjab and Haryana saw the minimum temperature dipping to the lowest of the season, 1.8 degrees celsius against the normal of 7.2 degrees. This is the coldest since December 14, 1996. However, there was some respite from the dense fog.

Reports said Kashmir was shivering under intense cold wave conditions. The mercury in Srinagar hovered at seven degrees below zero. The harsh cold spell was at its worst in Ladakh with the principal towns of Leh and Kargil reporting minus 12.5 degrees celcius.

Delhi and Amritsar saw night temperatures dipping to five degrees celsius below normal.

Pathankot bordering Jammu and Kashmir reported a minimum of 5.1 degrees celcius.

Ambala and Hisar were the coldest places in Haryana, showing 5.1 and 6.2 degrees celsius respectively.

The weather bureau has forecast ground frost and fog in Punjab.

 
 
                        Temperatures (deg C)

	                  Max          Min

Agartala                  27(+1)       10(-1)
Ahmedabad                 28(-1)       6(-6)
Allahabad                 18(-6)       5(-4)
Amritsar                  14(-6)       6(+2)
Aurangabad                26(-3)       6(-4)
Bangalore                 27(+1)       18(+3)
Bareilly                  12(-11)      8(-1)
Bhopal                    25(-1)       8(-2)
Bhubaneshwar              28           11(-5)
Bombay                     32(+2)       20
Calcutta                  26(-1)       13(-1)
Chandigarh                12(-9)       2(-5)
Dehra Dun                 19(-1)       5(-1)
Dibrugarh                 25(+2)       9
Gadag                     29           15(-1)
Gangtok                   17(+2)       7(+2)
Guwahati                  25(+1)       10(-1)
Hyderabad                 29(+1)       11(-2)
Imphal                    24(+3)       4
Indore                    27(+1)       8(-2)
Jaipur                    26(+3)       8(-1)
Jabalpur                  25           7(-2)
Jodhpur                   29(+4)       6(-4)
Kanyakumari               29(-1)       23
Lucknow                   16(-7)       3(-4)
Madras                   28           21
Madurai                   29(-1)       20(-1)
Mangalore                 34(+2)       22(+1)
Minicoy                   31(+1)       24(+1)
Nagpur                    27(-2)       9(-3)
New Delhi                 17(-5)       5(-2)
Patna                     15(-9)       4(-6)
Panaji                    33(+1)       21(+1)
Pune                      27(-2)       7(-3)
Port Blair                30(+1)       24(+1)
Rajkot                    29           15(+4)
Raipur                    26(-1)       9(-4)
Shillong                  19(+3)       8(+4)
Shimla                    16(+6)       9(+6)
Srinagar                  8(+1)        -7(-5)
Thiruvanananthapuram      31           23(+1)
Tiruchirapalli            28(-1)       23(+2)
Varanasi                  17(-7)       6(-3)
Vishakhapatnam            29(+1)       14(-4)


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