India will celebrate its 78th Independence Day on Thursday. As the country marks this occasion, let's take a look at some lesser known facts about India's freedom movement and incidents after August 15, 1947.
Paying rich tributes to Alluri Sitarama Raju, PM Modi said he involved himself in the country's fight for independence early, dedicating himself for Adivasi welfare and the country and was martyred at a young age.
The 69-year old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leader lost the no-confidence motion against him as 174 members of the National Assembly voted in its favor. His party PTI has called for several 'peaceful' protests across several cities of Pakistan, against Imran Khan's ouster.
Ajay Devgn, who has played the role of Bhagat Singh in a 2002 Bollywood movie, paid homage to the martyrs on Shaheed Diwas 2022. On this day, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged till death by the British Government.
It was on August 15, 1947, when India achieved independence after years of struggle, breaking the shackles of British rule. This year marks the 75th Independence Day of the country. Here are some greatest quotes of India's freedom struggle luminaries.
Virtually equating the ruling BJP government with the British, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday said that at present the country fighting an ideology which it had fought against during the freedom struggle.
"We will launch another freedom struggle against NRC and CAB. We could not take part in the first freedom struggle which gave us our freedom. But we will take part in the second freedom movement. We will resist NRC and CAB," she said at the Solidarity Day rally organised by her party.
The prime minister announced that museums dedicated to unsung freedom fighters, including members of tribal communities, would be built across the country.
"You end up feeling so grateful to that generation who, I think, helped rebuild the nation, despite having suffered such trauma," says Mallika Ahluwalia, CEO of the Partition Museum .
New Delhi: India, despite its strategic interests, has not been forthcoming in support to the Balochistan freedom movement, says a prominent author-activist from the restive western Pakistani province, rebutting Islamabad's allegations that New Delhi
Bhagat Singhs's role as freedom fighter must be acknowledged in the history books of Pakistan, concluded a convention organized by Punjab Lok Rahs in Farid Town on the eve of the revolutionary's death anniversary on
Kathmandu: India today described Begum Hazrat Mahal, who had rebelled against British colonial rule in the country in 1857-58, as an “extraordinary freedom fighter”. Laying a wreath at the Jama Masjid here on her 135th
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