India, Jan. 13 -- North India continues to shiver under an intense cold wave, with Gurugram emerging as one of the coldest places in the region, even colder than several Himalayan hill stations. A day after recording a historic low, biting cold conditions persisted on Tuesday across Gurugram, Delhi, and large parts of the National Capital Region (NCR), keeping residents indoors and authorities on alert.

Gurugram stunned weather watchers on Monday morning when the mercury plunged to 0.6 degrees Celsius, marking the city's coldest January temperature in almost five decades. The reading matched the low recorded on January 22, 1977, making it one of the rarest cold spells in the city's weather history.

According to meteorological records, G...