STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: Gulmarg in north Kashmir recorded the coldest night of the season at minus eight degrees Celsius while Srinagar city experienced a warmer night due to overcast conditions, officials said on Monday.
Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, which serves as one of the base camps for the annual Amarnath Yatra, recorded a minimum temperature of minus 5.8 degrees Celsius, a drop of more than four notches, they said.
People say Kashmir is mini-Switzerland, I say Switzerland is mini-Kashmir: Bhagyashree
Srinagar: Kashmir is tranquil and beautiful, says actor Bhagyashree, who wonders why people go abroad when there is so much beauty in India.
The 54-year-old, who shot to fame with her film debut “Maine Pyar Kiya” in 1989, said a lot of tourists want to visit the Valley but are apprehensive. “Whenever I come here I am reminded of Amir Khusro’s couplet that ‘If there is Paradise on Earth, it is here, it is here, it is here’. Do not miss visiting Kashmir in your lifetime. It is so tranquil and beautiful here that I do not understand why people go to Switzerland or Europe. When there is so much beauty in our own country, why go elsewhere?” Bhagyashree told PTI at a tourist resort in Anantnag district. “People here say Kashmir is a mini-Switzerland but I say Switzerland
is mini-Kashmir. You feel inner peace here. People are so good that you will never face a problem,” she added. The actor also praised the Kashmiri cuisine and hospitality. “The food is very tasty and the people are sweet like jaggery,” she added.
Bhagyashree was most recently seen in “Sajni Shinde Ka Viral Video”, also starring Radhika Madan and Nimrat Kaur.
The minimum temperature in Srinagar city was 0.5 degrees Celsius on Sunday night.
Qazigund recorded a low of 0.8 degrees Celsius, Kokernag 1.1 degrees Celsius, and Kupwara minus 2.2 degrees Celsius. The weatherman has forecast generally dry weather over the next few days in the valley.