Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Death

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said it's a shame for the nation that even after so many years of the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, people don't know what happened to the leader.

Chandra Kumar Bose, has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Calcutta High Court demanding the "action of Government of India towards current unfettered distortions and misinformation in the literature and film of the Indian freedom movement."

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Anita Bose Pfaff has said time has come to bring back his remains to India and suggested that DNA testing can provide answers to those still having doubts about his death on August 18, 1945.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew issued a statement on Tuesday, making a fresh appeal to authorities to facilitate DNA testing of the ashes that have been interred in Renkoji temple in Japan.

Soon after alleging that the Congress was responsible for Subhas Chandra Bose's death, BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh's Unnao, Sakshi Maharaj on Sunday said that it was just his kayaas (assumption).

Chitra Ghosh dies: Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoles the death of Chitra Ghosh, niece of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and eminent scholar. She was 90. "Professor Chitra Ghosh made pioneering contributions to academics and community service," PM Modi tweeted

The Press Information Bureau's tweet announcing August 18 as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death anniversary has been welcomed by one of his grandnephews, author Ashis Ray.

Chandra Kumar Bose, a BJP leader and one of the grand nephews of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, on Monday took exception to the PIB tweet observing August 18 as the freedom fighter's death anniversary and said the mystery surrounding his disappearance was yet to be resolved.

The Central Information Commission has directed the National Archives of India to give a "categorical" response to an RTI applicant who asked the Prime Minister's Office whether freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was dead or alive.

Freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's remains should be brought back to India from Japan so as to give a closure to the matter, his daughter Anita Bose Pfaff has said.

Indicating that the Centre has an open mind on the issue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death in 1945, the Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday said its reply to an RTI was based on available official information and that if anything new comes up in the case, "it will be examined".

The Japanese government recently declassified archival materials to help settle the long-held controversy over the death of Subhas Chandra Bose, a hero of India's independence movement. The materials show Bose died in a plane crash in Taipei just after the end of World War II.

The only child of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose wants to bring her late father's ashes back to India, according to one of Japan's leading newspapers.

A UK website set up to document evidence on the circumstances of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death today published a letter released from Britain that indicates the freedom fighter died in a plane crash in August 1945.

Japan had confirmed to the US within weeks about the death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in a plane crash in Taiwan in 1945, a UK website set up to document evidence on the circumstances of the freedom fighter's demise claimed today.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said it's a shame for the nation that even after so many years of the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, people don't know what happened to the leader.

Chandra Kumar Bose, has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Calcutta High Court demanding the "action of Government of India towards current unfettered distortions and misinformation in the literature and film of the Indian freedom movement."

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Anita Bose Pfaff has said time has come to bring back his remains to India and suggested that DNA testing can provide answers to those still having doubts about his death on August 18, 1945.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew issued a statement on Tuesday, making a fresh appeal to authorities to facilitate DNA testing of the ashes that have been interred in Renkoji temple in Japan.

Soon after alleging that the Congress was responsible for Subhas Chandra Bose's death, BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh's Unnao, Sakshi Maharaj on Sunday said that it was just his kayaas (assumption).

Chitra Ghosh dies: Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoles the death of Chitra Ghosh, niece of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and eminent scholar. She was 90. "Professor Chitra Ghosh made pioneering contributions to academics and community service," PM Modi tweeted

The Press Information Bureau's tweet announcing August 18 as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death anniversary has been welcomed by one of his grandnephews, author Ashis Ray.

Chandra Kumar Bose, a BJP leader and one of the grand nephews of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, on Monday took exception to the PIB tweet observing August 18 as the freedom fighter's death anniversary and said the mystery surrounding his disappearance was yet to be resolved.

The Central Information Commission has directed the National Archives of India to give a "categorical" response to an RTI applicant who asked the Prime Minister's Office whether freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was dead or alive.

Freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's remains should be brought back to India from Japan so as to give a closure to the matter, his daughter Anita Bose Pfaff has said.

Indicating that the Centre has an open mind on the issue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death in 1945, the Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday said its reply to an RTI was based on available official information and that if anything new comes up in the case, "it will be examined".

The Japanese government recently declassified archival materials to help settle the long-held controversy over the death of Subhas Chandra Bose, a hero of India's independence movement. The materials show Bose died in a plane crash in Taipei just after the end of World War II.

The only child of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose wants to bring her late father's ashes back to India, according to one of Japan's leading newspapers.

A UK website set up to document evidence on the circumstances of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death today published a letter released from Britain that indicates the freedom fighter died in a plane crash in August 1945.

Japan had confirmed to the US within weeks about the death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in a plane crash in Taiwan in 1945, a UK website set up to document evidence on the circumstances of the freedom fighter's demise claimed today.