Jammu, Aug. 31 -- The Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for fresh traffic for the sixth consecutive day on Sunday as efforts to make the vital road trafficable were hampered by incessant rains and fresh landslide, officials said.
A traffic department official said no fresh vehicles were allowed either from Jammu or Srinagar this morning owing to closure of the highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with rest of the country.
"Traffic was restored partially on Jammu-Srinagar national highway on Saturday. Stranded vehicles were being cleared but the stretch of land on the upper side of road from Tharad Bridge to the petrol pump short of Balli Nallah started sinking," the official said.
He said the traffic movement ...