India's Independence Day ends in peace

India remained peaceful and safe on its Independence Day despite possible terror attack.Across the country, the state governments held celebration ceremonies and everything went off well.

On Tuesday morning ,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the people at Red Fort, New Delhi.

Mr. Singh said in his speech that India is facing major threat of terrorism to its internal security. "Terrorists want to undermine our growing economic growth, destroy our unity and provoke communal incidents. We cannot allow this to happen".he said

The government will modernize, strenghten and properly equip the security forces and intelligence agencies, he added