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As the cyclone Phailin battered coastal Andhra and parts of Odisha, the political turbulence that had crippled Andhra Pradesh subsided with government workers returning to work to help deal with the natural calamity.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday joined the group demanding the ouster of Sushma Swaraj as Minister of External Affairs saying she should be sacked.

Sonia Gandhi is angry, but told NDTV in the most measured tone today, "I will write my own book and then everyone will know the truth." She was responding to comments by former Congressman Natwar Singh in an interview about his new autobiography.

After nosediving over the past few months, donations to the Aam Aadmi Party sharply rose on a day the party fielded its chief Arvind Kejriwal to make an emotional pitch to the public, with around 540 contributors today chipping in with over Rs 6.50 lakh.

Milk prices in Delhi and the National Capital Region have risen once again, with the Mother Dairy raising the prices of all variants of milk.

In a big relief for External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Narendra Modi government is now backing the minister for helping former Indian Premiere League chief Lalit Modi secure a visa on humanitarian grounds.

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said it was the central government, and not the BJP, that has to take confidence-building measures before she makes a decision on forming a government.

Dissent in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over ticket distribution spilled onto the streets a day after the party released its list of candidates with supporters of party`s Delhi unit Satish Upadhyay and other ticket aspirants staging protests in New Delhi over denial of ticket to them.