Shimla: The State unit of Communist Party of India- Marxist on Sunday launched the Sangharsh Sandesh Jatha from the hill State to educate people on the impact and brunt of neo-liberal policies in last two decades. The Himachal Jatha would join the main North India Jatha at Amritsar and would [...]

SHIMLA: Himachal CM Prem Kumar Dhumal today strongly condemned the frequent walkouts by opposition Congress from the State assembly. Perturbed by the non participatory behaviour of Congress in the House on one or the other pretext the Chief Minister called them “a divided group of directionless and issue less opponents [...]

Shimla: “Why burn a body when you can donate it for a cause”, was the reasoning, 21 year Anjana, a medical student in Tanda Medical College in Kangra gave to her uncle Baldev Verma, 63, who was diagnosed with cancer a couple of months ago in the Indira Gandhi Medical [...]

Shimla: Majority student organisations in the hill state on have opposed all plans to impose a ban on campus elections that has been mooted by Himachal University Vice Chancellor. Students Federation of India (SFI) organised a big rally in the university campus which was also attended by students from other [...]

Shimla: The latest efforts by former Union Minister Virbhadra Singh and his supporters to convene a meeting of Congress activists including the sitting MLAs and Party delegates in his residence could not evoke much response on today as only a handful of office bearers were spotted by the media during [...]

Shimla: The recent resignation of former Union Minister Virbhadra Singh from being incharge of the campaign committee constituted for the ensuing Vidhan Sabha elections and other party posts has further sharpened the divide within the already factionalised Congress here. Mr Singh has resigned from the campaign committee because he was [...]

Shimla: Hundreds of women activists comprising school students form Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh controlled Sarswati Vidya Mandir in down town Kusumpati staged an armed (though symbolic) march in the streets of the town including the famous Mall Road here on Wednesday. Such processions are otherwise banned on the Mall Road [...]

Shimla: State Congress leadership held an impressive Parivartan Rally at Seri Munch in Mandi yesterday that besides party president Kaul Singh Thakur was addressed by union minister Anand Sharma and other senior leaders. Embroiled in a corruption case in which a trial court has framed charges, Virbhadra Singh, who resigned [...]

Shimla: Union Minister Virbhadra Singh, who had resigned from the government today in the wake of a local Court decision that had framed corruption charges against him, is still backed by his party on the grounds that he would come out clean of the allegations and the verdict has already [...]

Show of strength at two places Shimla: The recent assembly of Congress MLAs at the private residence of Union Minister Virbhadra Singh and their rejection of the official invitation for the Kangra rally of Union Commerce and Industry and Textile Minister Anand Sharma has once again brought the party factionalism [...]