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    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

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    How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea

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    Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan

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    Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ off boats into Bangladesh, local police claim

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    What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

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    IMF loan to Pakistan ‘no less than terror funding’, says Rajnath Singh

  • How Fanny Bullock Workman climbed the Himalayas in 1906 without any equipment and wearing a skirt
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    How Fanny Bullock Workman climbed the Himalayas in 1906 without any equipment and wearing a skirt

  • Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle
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    Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle

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    India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare

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    Should the Opposition attack Modi about Pahalgam and the ceasefire? INDIA is a house divided

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Watch: How the armed forces observed India’s 75th Independence Day

Independence Day celebrations were held on Sunday at remote locations like Ladakh and on board INS Sharda.

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Aug 15, 2021 · 02:18 pm
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भारत माता की जय !#ITBP personnel celebrating #IndependenceDay2021 in Ladakh.#IndependenceDay #स्वतंत्रतादिवस #स्वातंत्र्यदिन pic.twitter.com/siQeFVtCfK

— ITBP (@ITBP_official) August 15, 2021

भारत माता की जय !
वन्दे मातरम !

स्वतंत्रता दिवस की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं #HappyIndependenceDay2021 from the #Himveers of #ITBP#स्वातंत्र्यदिन #IndependenceDayIndia #15August #15August2021 #स्वतंत्रतादिवस pic.twitter.com/16kjhXkxb3

— ITBP (@ITBP_official) August 15, 2021

#FlagHoisting held at Maza on the #75th #IndependenceDay as our neighbouring country watched through the clouds in the background. #indiaIndependenceday #IndiaAt75 #AmritMahotsav pic.twitter.com/ISqs9JPCHt

— A. Bharat Bhushan Babu (@SpokespersonMoD) August 15, 2021

#WATCH | Rajasthan: Sky diving organised at Chandan Range, Jaisalmer today on the occasion of #IndependenceDay. 75 jawans participated in the sky diving to mark 75th Independence Day. pic.twitter.com/4vmUmll5s7

— ANI (@ANI) August 15, 2021

#AzadiKaAmritMahotsav

#IndiaIndependenceDay ceremony from Across the Seas.#INSSharda #MissionDeployed to Male, #Maldives is dressed overall on the occasion of #75thIndependenceDay.@DefenceMinIndia@SpokespersonMoD @Indianidc2021 @HCIMaldives pic.twitter.com/tYXKdKVSAE

— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) August 15, 2021
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