President pays tribute to Netaji on birth anniversary

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IANS New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 23 2014 | 4:48 PM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday paid homage to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary.

Mukherjee paid floral tributes in front of a portrait of Netaji at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The firebrand nationalist leader was born in Cuttack district, in what is now Odisha, in 1897, and is believed to have died in a plane crash in Taiwan on Aug 18, 1945.

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First Published: Jan 23 2014 | 4:42 PM IST

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