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More sops for farmers, artisans NEW DELHI, AUG. 15. A National Kisan Commission to encourage new experiments in farming, credit card facility to all eligible artisans, weavers and fishermen along with a contributory insurance scheme for them and an extended mid-day meal scheme ... 
Rain was no damper to their spiritNEW DELHI, AUG. 15.Incessant rain, which began around midnight on Thursday and continued for almost 10 hours, failed to dampen the spirit of nationalist fervour as thousands of people, including children, participated in the wettest Independence ... 
People throng Bakshi stadiumJAMMU, AUG. 15. It was a different Independence Day function in Srinagar. For the last 13 years the function was held under tight security with a gathering comprising mostly of public servants and a handful of political activists. This time, ... Longest towel in the world NEW DELHI, AUG. 15.Enthusiastic students of the G. D. Goenka School today unfurled the longest towel in the world and it will secure a place in the Limca Book of Records. ``Indians now have the freedom to hoist the national flag wherever and ... A joint celebration CHANDIGARH, AUG. 15. It was a rare event in the history of the Sub-Continent. People today crossed the India-Pakistan border to celebrate the independence days of both the countries jointly. The Wagah-Attari joint checkpost in Amritsar district ... 20 injured in grenade attack JAMMU, AUG. 15.Twenty persons were injured, five of them seriously, when militants lobbed a grenade at a Special Operations Group camp at the Charar-e-Sharief area in central Kashmir today evening. The injured were rushed to hospital. ... Gujarat riot victims look to the Lashkar-e-Taiba NEW DELHI, AUG. 15. As India celebrated its Independence Day, a small group of young men from Gujarat may have been clocking in for one more day's training at a Lashkar-e-Taiba camp in Pakistan, preparing for revenge against a republic they ... NDA slips in opinion poll NEW DELHI, AUG. 15. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance has slipped in its popularity, an India Today-ORG MARG opinion poll has said, predicting only 242 to 252 seats for them in the event of a snap poll, short of a simple ... Other Stories
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