The debate on the national song “Vande Mataram” on its 150th anniversary in parliament saw a spirited defence of the Congress from its senior leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Riding on the decline in prices of vegetables and pulses, the cost of preparing home-cooked vegetarian and non-vegetarian thalis fell 13 per cent each on a year-on-year basis in November, according to Crisil’s monthly indicator of food plate cost.

The time Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first Prime Minister, spent in jail during the freedom struggle is close to the period Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been in the country’s top post, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said