20 trains, 6 flights delayed due to low visibility amid dense fog. List

IMD predicts cold wave conditions over northwest India till January 18 with dense fog covering parts of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana.

Updated on: Jan 15, 2023, 10:23:53 IST

By HT News Desk, New Delhi

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Several north Indian states continue to reel under the impact of cold waves and dense fog in line with the India Meteorological Department's (IMD) orange alert notification. The cold wave is likely to continue till January 18 with dense fog covering parts of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana till Monday, disrupting flight and railway services due to low visibility.

Trains delayed due to heavy dense fog at New Delhi Railway station in New Delhi on Sunday. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

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According to Northern Railway, around 20 trains are running late today by nearly two hours including Mahabodhi Express, Farakka Express, Amrapali Express among others.

Here is the list of trains running late due to fog:

Darbhanga-New Delhi Clone Special	Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Express
Gaya-New Delhi Mahabodhi Express	Malda Town-Delhi Farakka Express
Barauni-New Delhi Clone Special	Banaras-New Delhi Kashi Vishwanath Express
Dibrugarh Town-New Delhi Rajdhani Express	Sai Nagar Shirdi Terminus-Kalka Superfast Express
Kamakhya-Delhi Brahmaputra Mail	Katihar-Amritsar Express
Raigarh-Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express	Visakhapatnam-New Delhi Andhra Pradesh Express
Ayodhya Cantt-New Delhi Express	Rajgir-New Delhi Shramjeevi Superfast Express
Raxaul-Anand Vihar Terminus Sadbhavana Express	Jabalpur-Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express
Manikpur-Hazrat Nizamuddin Uttar Pradesh Sampark Kranti	MGR Chennai-New Delhi Grand Trunk Express
MGR Chennai-New Delhi Tamil Nadu Express	Hyderabad Deccan Namoally-New Delhi Telangana Express

Similarly, departure of around six flights from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) has been delayed due to fog. Flights towards Riyadh, Shimla, Kullu, Varanasi, Dharamshala, Srinagar and Dehradun have been delayed.

On Saturday, IMD predicted that a fresh spell of dense to very dense fog and cold wave conditions will be seen over northwest India from January 15 to 18.

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“Dense to very dense fog very likely in isolated/some parts during night & morning hours over Punjab, Haryana & Delhi and Uttar Pradesh during next 5 days. Dense fog very likely in isolated pockets during night & morning hours over Bihar during next 5 days; Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand during next 4 days and Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, north Madhya Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya and Tripura during next 2 days,” IMD said in a notice.

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