‘Sin’: BJP accuses Nehru of dropping Maa Durga stanzas from Vande Mataram in 1937; takes ‘pungent echo’ dig at Rahul | India News

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday accused India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of committing a “historic sin” by truncating certain parts of Vande Matram which hailed Goddess Durga.In a social media post on X, BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan said that Congress, under Nehru’s presidentship, adopted only a truncated Vande Mataram as the party’s…

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‘Prayed for it to stop’: Freed Israeli hostage recounts captivity in Gaza; security guard alleges ‘horrific’ sexual assault

A recently freed Israeli hostage said he was subjected to “horrific” sexual assault while being held by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the beseiged Gaza Strip.Rom Braslavski, 21, a security guard kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, told Channel 13 that he was stripped naked and tied up while being held hostage….

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