{"id":107696,"date":"2024-08-04T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/04\/cloudburst-in-jammu-and-kashmir-srinagar-leh-highway-closed\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T06:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T06:10:05","slug":"cloudburst-in-jammu-and-kashmir-srinagar-leh-highway-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/04\/cloudburst-in-jammu-and-kashmir-srinagar-leh-highway-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudburst in Jammu and Kashmir; Srinagar-Leh highway closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-112259939,imgsize-10856.cms?fit=299,195&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cloudburst in Jammu and Kashmir; Srinagar-Leh highway closed\" title=\"Cloudburst in Jammu and Kashmir; Srinagar-Leh highway closed\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"8\">A <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/cloudburst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cloudburst<\/a> in <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ganderbal-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ganderbal district<\/a> of <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/jammu-and-kashmir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jammu and Kashmir<\/a> has caused significant damage to a road, leading to the suspension of traffic on the Srinagar-Leh national highway, officials told PTI on Sunday. The road was damaged during the intervening night.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:2-->&#8220;The traffic on Srinagar-Leh road has been suspended till further notice due to road damage at Kacherwan in Ganderbal district,&#8221; an official of the traffic control room said.<\/p>\n<p>A police official mentioned that some buildings, including residential houses, have been damaged as well due to the flash floods triggered by the cloudburst.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are on the ground to provide help and assistance to those in need, the official said. <\/p>\n<p>The closure of the highway has cut off <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/kashmir-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kashmir valley<\/a> from Ladakh union territory while Baltal base camp for <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/amarnath-yatra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amarnath yatra<\/a> has also been rendered inaccessible.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:2--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/cloudburst-in-jammu-and-kashmir-srinagar-leh-highway-closed\/articleshow\/112259939.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cloudburst in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir has caused significant damage to a road, leading to the suspension of traffic on the Srinagar-Leh national highway, officials told PTI on Sunday. The road was damaged during the intervening night. &#8220;The traffic on Srinagar-Leh road has been suspended till further notice due to road damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-112259939,imgsize-10856.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[70921,1457,71046,67113,4334,7644,2326,89083,7645,74525,89082,89084],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107698,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107696\/revisions\/107698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}