- Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls on the people of India to take 'panch pran' (five pledges) for a developed nation and aim to fulfil the dreams of the freedom fighters by the year 2047- the 100th year of India's Independence. The Prime Minister while addressing the nation on the 75th Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort talks about the five pledges the country needs to focus on for the next 25 years. 'The first pran is to move forward with bigger resolves and resolve of developed India. The second pran is to erase all traces of servitude. Even if we see the smallest things of servitude, inside us or nearby us, we have to get rid of them. The third is to take pride in our legacy. Four is the strength of unity for our dreams of 'Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat'. The fifth pran is the duties of citizens which include the Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers also. This is a big pranshakti for fulfilling the dreams of the country in the next 25 years,' says the Prime Minister. 2. An unidentified person on Monday made a phone call to a hospital in Mumbai and threatened to kill the family of industrialist Mukesh Ambani, says a police official. He says, the person made three to four calls on a landline number of the Reliance Foundation Hospital in Girgaon area around 10.30 am. After receiving information about the calls, the Mumbai police initiated a probe into it. A preliminary enquiry suggested the caller was mentally unstable, says the official. 3. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserts that his new government was not only committed to fulfilling the promise of 10 lakh jobs, made by his deputy Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, but would like to exceed the employment generation target twice over. The 'historic announcement, made on a historic day', is applauded by Mr Yadav, who has returned as the deputy CM after five years.