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Whatever I have to say, I will say in Nagpur: Pranab Mukherjee on accepting RSS invite

Former President Pranab Mukherjee has responded to the criticism (and the many suggestions) he has got after accepting an invite to an RSS event.

Mukherjee has been invited to speak to swayamsevaks in Nagpur on June 7 at the concluding function of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Tritiya Varsha Varg or third-year course.

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En route to Mauritius, Sushma Swaraj's plane went incommunicado for 14 minutes

Mauritius air traffic control was given a serious scare Saturday when External Affaris Minister Sushma Swaraj's aircraft, flying in from Trivandrum, went incommunicado for about 14 minutes.

Swaraj's Embraer ERJ135 jet took from Trivandrum at 4 pm and lost contact at around 4.44 pm.


Autopsy of BJP worker found hanging in Bengal says suicide

The autopsy conducted on the body of the BJP worker found hanging yesterday in West Bengal's Purulia district has indicated he committed suicide.

Dulal Kumar was found hanging from an electricity tower on Saturday.

His was the second body to be found hanging in quick succession.


After a year of keeping quiet, Kejriwal renews attacks on Modi

In 2017, following AAP's poor performance in Punjab and the BJP's sweep in Uttar Pradesh, Kejriwal consciously decided to minimise his attacks on his bete-noire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He continued with the strategy for a little more than a year. But with the BJP suffering a string of electoral defeats and anti-incumbency sentiment slowly setting in against the BJP government at the Centre, Kejriwal has renewed his attacks on Modi with the same level of acerbity as before.


Swara Bhasker calls Pakistan 'failing state'. Pak actress calls her 'failing human being'

Pakistani actress Urwa Hocane has responded to Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker calling Pakistan a 'failing state'.

Hocane, in her response, called Bhasker a 'failing human being'.

Bhasker made her comment after her most recent film Veere Di Wedding was banned in Pakistan because of its "vulgar content".