The IIT Mandi director asked students to not consume meat if they wanted to "become good human beings". "To become good human beings, what do you have to do? No to meat-eating! Yes or no?" he asked students during his speech.
Incessant rains in Himachal Pradesh over the past 24 hours have triggered landslides, blocking several roads, including the Shimla-Chandigarh road which was closed for buses and trucks.
A house collapsed after water from a cloudburst gushed into a village in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district. Five members of a family were feared trapped under the debris.