PM Modi greets nation on 72nd Republic Day
The Republic Day Parade ceremony will commence with Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting the National War Memorial. File photo
Updated: Jan 26, 2021, 08:23 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (January 26) greeted Indians on the occasion of India’s 72nd Republic Day. Wishing all the people of India a Happy #RepublicDay. Jai Hind! Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet in Hindi.
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The
Republic Day Parade ceremony
will commence with Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting the National War Memorial. He will lead the nation in paying
The tableaux that rolled down on the Rajpath in New Delhi during celebrations of the 72nd Republic Day on Tuesday reflected India s cultural diversity and social and economic progress. Seventeen tableaux from Gujarat, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Tripura, West Bengal, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, National Capital Territory of Delhi and Ladakh were showcased at the parade, depicting the geographical and rich cultural diversity of the country. These tableaux included the vision for Ladakh to be carbon-neutral, the Sun Temple at Modhera in Mehsana district of Gujarat, Tea tribes of Assam, Shore Temple and other monuments of Pallava dynasty in Tamil Nadu.
Republic Day Parade: India s military might to be displayed. 10 points
New Delhi: Security personnel keep vigil at Rajpath on the eve of 72nd Republic Day, in New Delhi.
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India s military might, cultural diversity, social and economic progress will be on display during the 72nd Republic Day celebrations at the majestic Rajpath in the national capital today. Apart from tableaus of Armed forces, 17 tableaus from different states and nine tableaus from different ministries/departments of the central government and Paramilitary Forces and six from Ministry of Defence will also be on display during the annual parade.
The newly inducted Rafale fighter aircraft featured for the first time in India s Republic Day flypast as it carried out the Brahmastra formation alone and was part of the Eklavya formation with four other fighter jets
IAF fly past at Rajpath: One Rafale with 2 Jaguar Deep penetration strike aircraft and 2 MiG-29 Air Superiority Fighters, in Eklavya’ formation.
NEW DELHI: The 72nd Republic Day parade on Tuesday witnessed several firsts and first-time misses due to the Covid pandemic. A 122-member Bangladesh contingent, two IAF women pilots, IAF s newly acquired multirole fighter aircraft Rafale, troops deployed in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and a tableau of newly constituted UT of Ladakh made their debut in the parade.
However, for the first time in over five decades the R-Day parade had no foreign dignitary as chief guest as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was supposed to come to India, had to cancel his visit at last minute due to a spike in new-strain Covid cases in his country. Also, this time there was no participation of military veterans and motorcycle-borne daredevils, who used to be the parade’s centre of attraction in past years. Due to Covid restrictions, even the