Delhi News Live Updates: Trains delayed due to fog and low visibility in Delhi

Many flights between Pune and Delhi (both arrivals and departures) have been affected since Thursday morning due to bad weather in the national capital. Around four flights from Pune to Delhi have been cancelled while many delayed between 6am to 12noon, airport sources said. The cancelled flights belong to IndiGo, Vistara and Air India. In the slot between 12noon to 6pm, flights to Delhi are recording delays.

Approximately 1.5 lakh tourists flocked to Shimla for Christmas, and expectations are set for around 80,000 to 1 lakh tourists to join the New Year celebrations. "Following the model of Christmas and winter carnivals, we plan to organize similar festivities for December 31st. We witnessed almost 1.5 lakh tourists during Christmas, and we anticipate a turnout of 80,000 to 1 lakh people, along with nearly 2,50,000 vehicles for the year-end celebrations," stated Shimla's superintendent of police, Sanjeev Kumar Gandhi.

Karnataka Minister Madhu Bangarappa had a close call when the car he was in collided head-on with a truck near Kyathasandra in Tumakuru district, as per police reports on Thursday.

For the second day in a row over 100 flights have been delayed at Delhi's IGI airport as the national capital continues to witness dense fog. The delayed flights include both domestic and international (arrivals and departures).

Actor-turned-politician Vijayakant who had tested positive for Covid 19 passed away at a private hospital in Chennai on Thursday morning.

Visuals from New Delhi Railway Station

An ongoing multi-city wastewater surveillance study by TIGS (Tata Institute for Genetics and Society), Bengaluru has found that JN.1, a Covid-19 variant, is the predominant strain in the wastewater samples it tested in Bengaluru.

The national capital has reported its first case of JN.1, a sub variant of Omicron. The patient, however, recovered completely and was discharged from the hospital. Out of the three samples sent for genome sequencing, one was confirmed to be JN.1, while the other two were of the Omicron variant, said health minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday.

The dense fog delayed over 100 flights at Indira Gandhi International Airport on Wednesday and four Delhi-bound flights were diverted to Jaipur. This is the third day on a trot when fog-induced low visibility has compelled airlines to delay and reroute flights, causing inconvenience to several lakhs of passengers in the middle of the winter holiday season. The dense fog is likely to hang over Delhi till Friday.

The city, along with a vast area of north-west India, stayed covered in very dense fog. Visibility at Palam plummeted to zero from 8am to 10 am. Safdarjung and Ayanagar too recorded very dense fog. The weather department said Thursday and Friday too could see similar conditions. The maximum visibility on Wednesday in the city was 800 metres.

The state administration on Wednesday said that Gujarat has recorded 36 cases of JN.1, the new subvariant of Covid-19 that made inroads in India through Kerala recently.