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Cold wave grips Kashmir; temperature drops to -1.3 degrees Celsius in Srinagar 

Cold wave tightened its grip across Kashmir on Sunday as the mercury plummeted to minus 1.3 degrees Celsius in Srinagar. 

Leh town in the cold desert region of Ladakh recorded a low of minus 6.4 degrees Celsius against last night’s minus 7.8 degrees while Drass in Kargil, the second-coldest place in the world after Siberia, recorded a low of minus 12.0 degrees Celsius.