Two flights of SpiceJet were diverted at the Delhi airport on Wednesday morning due to bad weather, according to an official. The official said the flights were diverted to Jaipur between 0900 and 0915 hours. Several areas in the national capital were engulfed in dense fog on Wednesday morning leading to low visibility and the minimum temperature was recorded at 7.8 degrees celsius. On Tuesday also, flight operations were impacted at the Delhi airport due to dense fog.
India Meteorological Department informs that very dense fog is likely to continue till Northwest and some parts of Central India for the next two days
Several commuters were injured in a pile-up on the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida on Wednesday morning amid reduced visibility due to fog, police officials said. According to the officials, the incident took place around 8 am on the Agra to Noida lane of the expressway in Dayanatpur area under the Jewar police station limits. "No person suffered fatal injury in the incident while the number of those injured was yet to be ascertained," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Ashok Kumar said. The officer said most of the damaged vehicles have been removed from the expressway and normal traffic movement resumed on the stretch. A video of the pile-up that surfaced on social media showed multiple damaged vehicles, including private and commercial ones, on the expressway. One lane of the carriageway also appeared to be having barricades where some construction work was underway, the purported video showed. There was no comment yet from the officials concerned whet
In another incident in Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli, a high-speed truck rammed into a house on the Bareli-Sultanpur Highway due to dense fog. No injuries were reported
While the overall AQI continued to remain 'very poor' at 383 on Wednesday morning, parts of the national capital witnessed the air quality dip to 'severe'
Two flights were diverted and nearly 30 flights delayed at the Delhi airport on Tuesday morning due to dense fog. One flight each of IndiGo and SpiceJet were diverted to Jaipur, an official said. As per information available on the Delhi airport website, around 30 flights have been delayed in the morning. In a post on X, DIAL gave a fog alert at around 0730 hrs saying that while landing and takeoffs continue at the Delhi airport, flights that are not CAT III compliant may get affected. CAT III pertains to operating flights when the visibility is quite low. "Passengers are requested to contact the airline concerned for updated flight information. Any inconvenience caused is deeply regretted," the Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) said in the post.
A total of 333 flights and 129 flights were delayed at the Delhi airport and the Hyderabad airport, respectively, until 12:30 pm on Monday
Visibility dropped to 125 meters in several parts of Delhi, and most parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) also experienced low visibility
While Pratapgarh-Delhi Padmavat Express is running late by an hour, Visakhapatnam -New Delhi Andhra Pradesh Express is running late by one hour and fifteen minutes
According to railway officials, Barauni- NewDelhi Clone Special and Ayodhya Cantt- Delhi Express are running late by 3:30 hours
Railway officials informed on Friday that six passenger trains in Northern India were running late due to low visibility and fog
Half a dozen long-distance passenger trains in the northern parts of the country are running behind schedule due to fog and low visibility today, as cold conditions continue to prevail in the region
The IMD has said that two western disturbances in quick succession are likely to affect northwest India on January 18 and 20, abating cold wave
Trains were running late by as much as 8 hours behind their scheduled time of arrival in the national capital and neighbouring states
Akasa Air's flight from Bangalore and Air Asia flight from Delhi were diverted to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad
The India Metrological Department (IMD) has predicted a fresh spell of dense to very dense fog during the night and morning hours in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and UP from Jan 14 to 17
As many as six flights, scheduled to depart from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), were delayed due to dense fog, informed airport authority
A dense cover of fog on Wednesday lowered visibility to just 50 metres in Delhi, disrupting movement of vehicles and trains. A layer of dense to very dense fog extended from Punjab to Bihar across Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, an IMD official said. The Palam observatory near the Indira Gandhi International Airport recorded a visibility level of 50 metres. Twenty trains were delayed by an hour to 10 hours due to the foggy weather, a Northern Railways spokesperson said. The Delhi International Airport Limited tweeted that low-visibility procedures were in progress at the IGI airport. Passengers have been advised to contact the airline concerned for updated flight information. According to the weather office, very dense fog is when visibility is between 0 and 50 metres, between 51 and 200 metres is dense, between 201 and 500 metres moderate, and between 501 and 1,000 metres shallow. The Safdarjung observatory, Delhi's primary weather station, recorded a minimum temperature of 5
While Barauni-New Delhi Clone Special, Katihar-Amritsar Express, Visakhapatnam-New Delhi Andhra Pradesh Express, and Jabalpur-Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express were running late by 3 hours
As many as 10 flights, scheduled to depart from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), was delayed because of dense fog, sources informed on Wednesday