With the arrival of the new year, a severe cold wave has left the northern states of the country shivering.

A vendor serves tea on a cold winter morning. Delhi recorded the season's lowest temperature at 4.4°C.

A man sits on a rickshaw parked along a street on a cold winter morning.

A daily wage earner wrapped in a blanket sets out for work at a market.

People light a fire by the road to warm themselves on a chilly morning.

Delhi's night shelters are proving inadequate for street dwellers as a brutal cold wave sweeps the city.

Hundreds of street dwellers struggle in this chilly weather. Delhi's 195 shelters can accommodate about 19,000 people only.

Blanket vendors at a market make hay while the sun shines, This is a season of earning as people are rushing to the markets for warm blankets.

A woman clad in warm clothes walks past a mural. IMD has predicted the intense cold wave will continue for the next three days.

A roadside vendor wakes up on his cart to a chilly morning in Delhi.