Cold wave to continue unabated in J&K
Srinagar: The ongoing cold wave in Jammu and Kashmir will continue unabated until January 5, the weather office said on Saturday.
"We are expecting light rain and snow in the state after January 5. The present cold wave conditions are likely to continue until then," a Met Department official said.
The minimum temperatures in Srinagar, Pahalgam and Gulmarg on Saturday were minus 3.5, minus 5.5 and minus 6.6 degrees Celsius, respectively.
"Leh was the coldest town in the state at a minus 13.8 followed by Kargil at minus 11.2 degrees Celsius," the official said.
"In the Jammu region, Bhaderwah was the coldest at 1.4 degrees Celsius."
Meanwhile, Jammu city recorded 7.6, Katra 7.8, Batote 4.1, Bannihal 2.3 and Udhampur 2 degrees Celsius as their minimum temperatures.
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Strong earthquake kills at least 9 people in western China
Beijing (AP): A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, killing at least nine people, state media said.
State broadcaster CCTV cited the Ministry of Emergency Management for the death toll but did not give details on the casualties.
The magnitude 7.1 quake struck in a mountainous area in the Tibet region, near the border with Nepal, at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6 miles), the US Geological Survey said.
China's earthquake monitoring agency recorded the magnitude as 6.8. The average altitude in the area around the epicenter is about 4,200 meters (13,800 feet), CCTV said.
The CCTV online report said there were a handful of communities within 5 kilometers of the epicentre, which was 380 kilometers (240 miles) from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
