Overview

• Airport authorities closed the Leh runway on Wednesday due to adverse weather, and Delhi Airport advised that flights to the destination were disrupted.
• R. Madhavan said he is stuck in Leh as flights were canceled and shared images of fresh snow on nearby mountaintops after sustained rainfall.
• Officials reported a collapse of telecom services across large areas of the union territory, leaving millions unable to communicate.
• Reports from the region described severe infrastructure damage, including collapsed bridges and broken mobile towers and electricity poles.
• Authorities suspended the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage, halted traffic on the Jammu–Srinagar and Kishtwar–Doda highways, and canceled multiple trains.