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Fresh snowfall in northern Himalayas revives cold wave    

Snow being cleared from the pathway in the hill resort of Shimla on Monday, February.

     New Delhi: The middle and upper reaches of the Himalayas have been receiving a spell of snowfall since Sunday while intermittent rains swept across the Indo-Gangetic plains, plunging the mercury. The vital 300-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in restive Jammu and Kashmir state was blocked. However, tourists at Patni Top, about 100 km away from the state's winter capital Jammu, enjoyed the snowfall. "There is a lot of snowfall here in Patni Top and we are enjoying very much. We are newly-married and we are having a nice time," said Rajesh Sinha. Heavy snowfall disrupted traffic in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh state as well but the visitors from the plains were thrilled to see this sudden deluge. "We have come from Bombay. We did not expect to see snowfall. We are enjoying very much," said Suchet Kumar, a visitor from the western Bombay city. Winters in South Asia is not as severe as in Europe but many poor people, scantily-clothed and ill-fed, succumb to the chill.
- Feb 7, 2005

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