Independence Day

Let’s make India a developed nation in 25 years: Modi

Newsbred Staff - August 15, 2022

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the nation from the historic Red Fort as India celebrates 75 years of Independence, listed five pledges (panchpran) the...

2,000 cartridges recovered in Capital ahead of I-Day

Newsbred Staff - August 12, 2022

Six people were arrested for their alleged involvement in smuggling of arms and ammunition in Delhi ahead of Independence Day, officials said today. A huge...

It’s only logical we nominate a National Betrayal Day after Partition Horrors Day!

Ashish Shukla - August 15, 2021

Independence Day is an event. As the preceding day would now be the one for Partition-Horrors. What do you think should be the National...

‘Akhand Paths’ in Shaheen Bagh: I mean how far we are from it?

Veeresh Malik - August 17, 2020

Meanwhile, out there in the streets, while India was celebrating Independence Day 2020 and suffering the meltdown on their cricketing heroes, events were shaking...

Indian tricolour at Empire State Building this Independence Day

Newsbred Staff - August 11, 2020

After the Ram Temple Bhoomi Pujan, it would be the Independence Day this week (August 15) which would turn Times Square in New York...

Who, what and how is Indian Express? A world beyond Ramnath Goenka

Veeresh Malik - August 11, 2020

Jimmy Lai's arrest in Hong Kong is an attack on free speech if you read the Anglo-Saxon media. Jimmy Lai's arrest in Hong Kong is...

When would Mufti and Abdullah be set free?

Ashish Shukla - August 30, 2019

India and Pakistan have started whipping up support in their corners as the Ring that is Jammu and Kashmir gets ready for a trade...

Why Indians need to see more of the country they live in

Ashish Shukla - August 17, 2019

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi may not have nudged we Indians into travelling more often in India than we do abroad but he surely...

Hindus first lose lives; and then the narrative

Ashish Shukla - August 15, 2018

Every Independence Day fills me with sadness and anger. For the day next is August 16, albeit of 1946, when the Muslim League government...

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