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The lights at the Eiffel Tower will be switched off tonight to honour the scores of victims from the huge truck bomb that struck Afghanistan's capital, the Paris mayor said.
"The Eiffel Tower will again go dark from midnight tonight to show Paris's solidarity with Kabul," Mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a Twitter post.
"After Baghdad, Kabul has been the victim of a barbaric attack. Solidarity and thoughts for the victims and their loved ones," she wrote.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack which struck Kabul's diplomatic quarter today at rush hour, which left at least 90 people dead and hundreds more wounded.
Paris regularly dims the Eiffel Tower, an emblem of the city, to show its solidarity with victims of terror attacks.
Two terrorists who were holed up in a house at Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district were killed in an encounter with security forces.
An army official said operations are still continuing in the area.
Security forces had launched a cordon-and-search operation in Natipora area of Sopore around 3:30 am after receiving information about the presence of terrorists there, a police official said.
During the searches, the two terrorists opened fire on the forces, triggering the gun-battle, he said.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in an air crash in 1945, the central government said on Wednesday, putting to an end a controversy that refuses to be buried about the freedom fighter having survived the accident.
The Ministry of Home Affairs said in a reply to an RTI application from a Kolkata resident that the government had come to this conclusion after considering the reports of various committees that probed the death of Bose, who, many believed, had not perished in the crash.
"I demand the central government immediately take action against the officer who gave such an irresponsible reply. How can the government come to a conclusion regarding Netaji's death without concrete evidence?" Bose, vice-president of the Bengal BJP unit, said.
"The Central government should apologise for such misleading statements and form an SIT to unravel the mystery of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's disappearance," he said.
The RTI query was filed by Sayak Sen, convener of Open Platform for Netaji, under the Right To Information Act to the Home Ministry about the whereabouts of Netaji post August 18, 1945.
He also sought to know how many files were declassified by the MHA and how many were yet to be declassified besides the information about one Gumnami Baba living in Uttar Pradesh in the 80s.
On the question of Gumnami Baba, the RTI reply said, 'Some information regarding Gumnami Baba and Bhagwanji is available in the Mukherjee Commission report on page 114-122...The Mukherjee Commission had come to the conclusion that Gumnami Baba/Bhagwanji was not Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Ministry of Home Affairs has declassified all available files (37) relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.'
Netaji had gone missing in 1945 and some of his family members had rejected the report of his death in a plane crash in Taihoku airport in Taiwan on August 18 that year.
In October, 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met the family members of Netaji and announced that the government would declassify the files relating to the leader.
Last year, on Netaji's 119th birth anniversary on January 23, as many as 100 secret files were made public by Modi. -- PTI
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