India celebrates 67th Independence Day

The National Flag unfurled at the Red Fort on 15th August. Today India is celebrating its 67th Independence day.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh salutes as he stands before giving his speech to the Nation at the Red Fort.

The localities around the Red Fort have been sanitised before the event and informers were deployed to keep a check on any movement of anti-national elements.

Indian school children, dressed in tricolors, wave their national flags during Independence Day celebrations at a school in Shimla.

Students with their faces painted with the colours of their national flag in Allahabad.

Hindu devotees pour milk dyed in the colours of the national flag at the Somnath Mahadev Temple in Ahmedabad.

Students with their faces painted with the colours of their national flag in Allahabad.

People pose for photographs near India Gate draped with colours of the national flag.

School children make a formation during Independence Day celebrations in Patiala.

Sand artist Subal Maharana highlights the atrocities on women through his sand art on Independence Day in Bhubaneswar.

Muslim children celebrate Independence Day in Karad, Maharashtra.

School children dressed as freedom fighters during Independence Day celebrations in Hubli.

Boy runs with the national flag through a paddy field in Balurghat in South Dinajpur district of West Bengal.

School girls paint their faces in colours of the national flag on Independence Day in Allahabad.

School children make a human chain in the shape of the Indian map on Independence Day in Mirzapur.

Sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik's sculpture with the message 'Jai Jawan' on Independence Day at the Puri beach in Odisha.

School girls perform despite heavy rains during celebration of 67th Independence day in Jammu.

Students perform folk dance Rouf during Independence day celebrations at Bakhshi Stadium in Srinagar.

Tribal artists perform during 67th Independence day celebration at Indira Gandhi sarani in Kolkata.

School children perform during celebration of 67th Independence day in Gurgaon.

Naga kids performing a folk song during Independence Day celebration at DDSC stadium in Dimapur.

People along with 11,000 students take part in Independence Day celebration at Moodbidri in Karnataka.

India celebrates 67th Independence Day

India celebrates the 67th anniversary of its Independence Day today