Sarkari Naukri

16 August 2021 Current Affairs:India celebrated the 75th Independence Day on August 15, 2021 to mark the country’s freedom from almost two centuries of British colonial rule. India is marking its seventy-fifth Independence Day as “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”. 

Highlights:
♦ PM Narendra Modi is leading the celebrations from Red Fort in New Delhi and is addressing the nation from Red Fort in New Delhi. 
♦ For the 1st time, just as the flag was unfurled with the aid of the PM, flower petals showered at the venue via two Mi-17 1V helicopters of the Indian Air Force in Amrut formation. 
♦ The Centre has invited 32 athletes — who have won medals at the Olympics and 2 officials of the SAI (Sports Authority of India) at the Red Fort.
♦ The Indian Independence movement commenced during World War I and was led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 
♦ On August 15, 1947, India bought its freedom, ending an almost 200-year British rule. India’s first minister Jawaharlal Nehru raised the Indian national flag above the Lahori Gate of Red Fort in Delhi on August 15, 1947. It is a subculture that has on account that it has been accompanied by the incumbent Prime Minister, accompanied through an address to the country.

Key Points:
♦ The tune ‘Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata’ composed in 1911 by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was renamed as ‘Jana Gana Mana’ and adopted by using the Constituent Assembly of India as the countrywide anthem on January 24, 1950.
♦ The Indian countrywide flag with three horizontal stripes of red, yellow and inexperienced used to be hoisted on 7th August in the year 1906, at Parsee Bagan Square in Kolkata. The first variant of India’s modern countrywide flag was designed through freedom fighter Pingali Venkayya in 1921. The present day flag with saffron, white and inexperienced shades and the Ashok Chakra in the center used to be formally adopted on July 22, 1947, and hoisted on August 15, 1947.
♦ Five other international locations celebrate their independence on August 15 alongside India. They are Bahrain, North Korea, South Korea and Liechtenstein.
♦ The Indian flag is manufactured and provided from solely one region in the nation. The Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha (KKGSS), placed in Dharwad in Karnataka, has the authority to manufacture and grant the Indian country wide flag. According to the BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards), the flag is manufactured solely with hand-spun and handwoven cotton khadi wafting.
♦ Even after India’s independence, Goa used to be a Portuguese colony. It used to be annexed to India by using the Indian Army solely in 1961. Thus, Goa was the final kingdom to be a part of the Indian territory.