Thousands stranded as fog blinds northern India

Dozens of flights and trains arriving or departing New Delhi were delayed or cancelled today due to thick fog over a large part of northern India, while a cold wave sweeping the region claimed six more lives.

The cold weather killed six people in the impoverished state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday, bringing the number of people to have died from cold-related ailments in the past three weeks to 51, said police officer Manoj Kumar Srivastava.