{"id":318385,"date":"2019-12-30T04:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T04:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318385"},"modified":"2019-12-30T04:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T04:38:23","slug":"fog-in-delhi-disrupts-rail-traffic-flights-diverted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/fog-in-delhi-disrupts-rail-traffic-flights-diverted\/","title":{"rendered":"Fog in Delhi disrupts rail traffic, flights diverted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318150 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cold-wave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/cold-wave.jpg 631w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/cold-wave-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/cold-wave-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/cold-wave-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/cold-wave-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/cold-wave-564x420.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/>Delhi and adjoining cities were covered in a thick blanket of fog on Monday morning, leading to disruptions in air and rail traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least thirty trains are running late due to low visibility. Three flights were diverted from Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International airport due to heavy fog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, no flights have been cancelled so far, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Airlines issued an advisory to passengers to contact their respective airlines for flight updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDue to bad weather, flight operations at Delhi airport are affected. CAT III B compliant aircraft and pilots are currently able to land. Passengers have been requested to stay in touch with the airline concerned for updated flight information,\u201d Delhi Airport tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The national capital has been experiencing severe cold days since few days with the average minimum temperature on Sunday morning being recorded at 3.4 degrees Celsius.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi and adjoining cities were covered in a thick blanket of fog on Monday morning, leading to disruptions in air and rail traffic. At least thirty trains are running late due to low visibility. Three flights were diverted from Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International airport due to heavy fog. However, no flights have been cancelled so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318386,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318385\/revisions\/318386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}