Several sign language instructors moved their hands up and down as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address to the nation from the historic Red Fort progressed. Students with disabilities cheered and smiled. All of them were excited.
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At least three persons were killed and over 35 others, including children and women, injured in various incidents of aerial firing and firework displays by revellers during Pakistan’s Independence Day celebrations, media reports said today.
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri handed over keys of the vehicles to the representatives of the respective organisations at a function in the premises of the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu today.
One person was killed and several buildings and shops were damaged after a cloudburst struck the Karnah area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said today.
The Congress today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have spoken “the truth” in the last Independence Day address of his term instead of making a “hollow” speech and urged him to accept party chief Rahul Gandhi’s challenge of a debate on issues such as corruption, mob lynching and Chinese incursions.
AAP leader Ashutosh today resigned from the party citing a “very very” personal reason even as the party asked him to reconsider the decision.
India’s first all-women SWAT team from the north east beamed with pride as it provided security cover to the historic Red Fort today on the Independence Day.
Madhya Pardesh Governor Anandiben Patel, who has been given the additional charge of Chhattisgarh following the death of governor Balramji Dass Tandon, was sworn in at a ceremony here today.
In the wake of severe floods in Kerala and other parts of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the entire country is standing with all its might to help people who have lost their kin and faced hardships due to the calamity.