India, Jan. 14 -- The cold wave tightened its grip on Gurugram on Wednesday with the city recording a minimum temperature of 0.8 degrees Celsius, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), keeping it among the coldest places in North India.

Residents continued to reel under extreme winter conditions, just days after Gurugram touched 0.6 degrees Celsius on Monday, its lowest temperature in nearly five decades and colder than several Himalayan hill stations.

IMD's automatic weather station had logged the 0.6 degrees Celsius reading on Monday, equalling the city's January 22, 1977 low. The city has gone colder only three times on record - minus 0.4 degrees Celsius on December 5, 1966, 0 degrees Celsius on January 11, 1970, and...