Srinagar, India - India's northern Jammu and Kashmir region was tense on Saturday as thousands marched during a funeral a slain separatist leader on the outskirts of the capital.

The protestors shouted slogans demanding freedom and condemning security forces but there were no reports of violence as paramilitary forces stood by with orders not to interfere.

London, Aug. 16 : Activists in India are about to demand another apology from Britain.

Sixty-six years after Mahatma Gandhi called on the British to leave India from the August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai, thousands of gay activists will gather in the same park today to call on the British Government to apologise for introducing anti-sodomy laws that still make homosexuality illegal in India today.

New Delhi, Aug 15 : Amidst impregnable security, the 62nd Independence Day celebrations across the country largely passed off peacefully on Friday.

In the wake of recent serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, elaborate security arrangements were made across the country.

Security forces were placed on high alert to prevent possible attacks from separatist militants and Maoist rebels. Extra security personnel were deployed in sensitive areas, especially in the capital.

New Delhi, Aug. 15 : The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Friday said that his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government is making a sincere endeavor to keep each of its promises made when it came to power four-and-half-years ago.

Addressing the nation on the occasion of India’s 62nd Independence Day from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort, Dr. Singh said: “We have given a new deal to rural India.”

New Delhi, Aug. 15 : Accepting that the nation faced a grave challenge in countering the rise in prices of essential items, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, said on Friday that notwithstanding the present inflationary trends, India had for the past four years enjoyed nearly nine percent economic growth, and is now being regarded as one of the world’s fastest growing economies.