Bhagat Singh dedicated his life to revolutionary actions out of love for his motherland and these acts were part of the march towards independence from British rule.

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Today's document, as charted elsewhere, envisages that independence day for Scotland would be in March 2016, with elections to an independent Scottish Parliament following closely thereon, in May the same year.

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Cambodia's fledgling judiciary is not famous for its independence, so no one was surprised when the trial on March 4th of the country's exiled senior prime minister, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, accused of illegally importing arms, ended in his conviction.

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On March 30, the SEC announced its proposed rules on independence, which interestingly, reflect an almost verbatim application of the Dodd-Frank directives.

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Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, often spoke of sending a million Palestinians to march on Jerusalem in an unarmed but unstoppable assertion of national independence.

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In a statement to the Commons on 3 March 2011, Mr Hunt said the plans would better protect the independence of Sky News.

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