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Shopkeepers arrange 'Kites' ahead of Independence Day, in Jammu, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. | Photo: PTI
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Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar along with BJP MP Jugal Kishore Sharma and others take part in a 'Tiranga Yatra' ahead of Independence Day, in Jammu. | Photo: PTI
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BJP MP Sanjiv Chaurasia along with others take part in a 'Tiranga Yatra' ahead of Independence Day, in Patna. | Photo: PTI
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Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghvi and others take part in the 'Tiranga Yatra' organised as part of 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign ahead of Independence Day, in Surat. | Photo: Handout via PTI
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A crowd of people gather as they take part in the 'Aadi Pooram' chariot procession, at Srivilliputhur, in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu. | Photo: PTI
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Children dressed as freedom fighters pose for photographs ahead of Independence Day, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI
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Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials take part in full-dress rehearsal on the eve of Independence Day celebrations, in Ajmer, Rajasthan. | Photo: PTI
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Women stitch tri-colour flags ahead of Independence Day, at Dadhkai, in Doda, Jammu and Kashmir. | Photo: PTI
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and others take part in a rally from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Statue site at GPO to Lok Bhavan to observe 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day', in Lucknow. | Photo: Handout via PTI
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Social worker Tsultrim Chonjor along with Army and district administration officials and head monks during the installation and inauguration of a 100-ft-high National Flag by the Indian Army’s 8th Mountain Division, ‘Forever in Operations’ Division, on the eve of Independence Day celebrations, at Padum, in Zanskar Valley, Ladakh. | Photo: @firefurycorps/X via PTI
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Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar meets German parliamentarian Juergen Hardt. | Photo: @DrSJaishankar/X via PTI
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Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary meets former state CM Nitish Kumar during a courtesy meeting. | Photo: @samrat4bjp/X via PTI
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Students stand along the balconies of Anjuman-e-Islam School decorated in the colours of the national flag ahead of Independence Day celebrations, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. | Photo: PTI
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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta hoists the national flag as part of the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign, at Chief Minister Jan Seva Sadan, in New Delhi. | Photo: @gupta_rekha/X via PTI
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Outfield of the Galle international stadium is seen covered a day ahead of the first cricket test match against Sri Lanka in Galle, Sri Lanka. | Photo: AP/Eranga Jayawardena
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Schoolchildren watch as a scuba diver displays the Indian flag at a marine aquarium on the eve of Independence Day in Chennai. | Photo: AP/Mahesh Kumar A.
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Sri Lanka's captain Dhananjaya de Silva, left, and his Indian counterpart Shubman Gill pose with the trophy a day ahead of their first cricket test match in Galle, Sri Lanka. | Photo: AP/Eranga Jayawardena
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An injured person is moved for treatment at a hospital after the collapse of an under-construction tunnel at a hydropower project in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. | Photo: AP/Surendra Rawat
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Women along with children move on a waterlogged road amid rainfall, in Patiala, Punjab, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. | Photo: PTI
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This image received on Aug. 14, 2026 shows a letter from pre-independence India. | Photo: Handout via PTI
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A BSF official stands guard on the eve of the 80th Independence Day, at the Attari-Wagah Border, in Amritsar, Punjab. | Photo: PTI/Shiva Sharma
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Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan, left, and state Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala, centre, and state Police Chief Ravada A Chandrasekhar during the launch of 'My Police Station', in Thiruvananthapuram. | Photo: PTI
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Girls paint their faces in the colours of the Tricolour ahead of Independence Day celebrations, in Nadia, West Bengal. | Photo: PTI
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A visitor looks at a photograph during Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, also known as ‘Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Diwas’, at Partition Museum, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Salman Ali
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh poses for a group photograph with Indian Army contingent from Commonwealth Games held at Glasgow, in New Delhi. | Photo: PIB via PTI
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Indian students waves national flags in front of a school building decorated with colors of the Indian national flag ahead of the Independence Day in Ahmedabad. | Photo: AP/Ajit Solanki
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Delhi Traffic Police personnel take part in a 'Tiranga Yatra' from its headquarters in Todapur, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Karma Bhutia
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In this image posted on Aug. 14, 2026, India dispatches the first tranche of the 20 metric ton of relief supplies to Colombia to support ongoing post-earthquake recovery efforts, in New Delhi. | Photo: @DrSJaishankar/X via PTI
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Students and people stage a protest demanding justice for Prince Soni, a 17-year-old Class 12 student who died under suspicious circumstances at his school at Jhotwara, in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Prince died under suspicious circumstances, with his family claiming he collapsed allegedly after consuming food from the school canteen in the Jhotwara area of the district, officials said on Thursday. | Photo: PTI
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Congress workers stage a protest condemning the alleged casteist remark directed at LoP in Rajya Sabha and party President Shri Mallikarjun Kharge following the LoP’s public gathering in Haldwani, in Thane, Maharashtra. | Photo: PTI
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Fugitive drug kingpin Virender Singh Basoya, in white, being escorted by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) personnel as he is produced before the Rouse Avenue court, in New Delhi. Basoya's name had surfaced in a seizure of 500 grams of Mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant commonly known by street name "meow meow", in Pune in 2024. | Photo: PTI
