Shimla: Himachal Pradesh BJP leaders criticised Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and senior party leader Anand Sharma for visiting the JNU campus after the event at the university in which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.

Shimla: BJP demanded the resignation of state Irrigation and Public Health Minister Vidya Stokes and the Shimla Mayor and Deputy Mayor over the jaundice outbreak in the Himachal Pradesh capital and surrounding areas and the failure on their part to contain the spread of the disease.

Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) gave a call for staging 'silent protest' in state capital Shimla and all 12 district headquarters on December 19 when party president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi appear in a Delhi court in the National Herald case.

Shimla: Most parts of Himachal Pradesh shivered under piercing cold wave conditions as high altitude tribal areas and other higher ranges received another spell of moderate snowfall and foggy conditions prevailed in mid and lower hills.

Shimla: Top leadership of Himachal Pradesh BJP, including Union minister JP Nadda and BJYM president Anurag Thakur, will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi today seeking ouster of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh.

Shimla: Electorates in Himachal Pradesh today braved the cold to cast their ballot in the first phase of the panchayat elections that began amid tight security.Polling, which began at 7.00 a.m., is taking place only in remote areas of Chamba and Lahaul-Spiti districts.

Shimla: BJP would launch a two-month long statewide campaign from October 8 demanding ouster of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh over corruption.