The Kashmir Valley experiences its coldest winter night in five decades with temperatures plunging to minus 8.5°C, signaling the start of Chillai Kalan, a period marked by severe cold and heavy ...

Chillai Kalan is also known as "Shahenshah-e-zamistan." Chilla-i Kalan is a Persian term which means "major cold" while the intense cold conditions are known as 'Jaada' in North and East India.

Kashmir enters its 40-day Chillai Kalan, the harshest winter phase, with temperatures dropping below freezing, turning the Valley into a snow-covered paradise. (Image: PTI) Chillai Kalan ...

This period is locally called Chillai-Kalan. Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, recorded its coldest December night in 30 years as the mercury dipped to a bone-chilling -8.5°C.

Chillai Kalan, the 40-day period of harshest winter, commenced in Kashmir on Saturday with Srinagar experiencing its coldest December night in five decades at minus 8.5 degrees Celsius, according ...