India's Modi vows to fix broken government, but no big bang reforms


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  • Friday, 15 Aug 2014

Kites carrying pictures of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are seen on display at a kite shop on the eve of India's Independence Day celebrations in the old quarters of Delhi August 14, 2014. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced dismay on Friday at the government in-fighting he found on assuming office in May and vowed to fire up the bureaucracy to deliver results in a country desperately in need of growth and development.

Delivering his first Independence Day speech, Modi emphasised the need for better governance but announced none of the sweeping market reforms that many who handed him India's biggest election mandate in three decades have been awaiting.

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