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Thursday, September 18, 2025
TopicBeating Retreat ceremony

Topic: Beating Retreat ceremony

End the obscenity called Wagah-Attari parade. Right-wing, liberals, retd officers—all agree

Attari-Wagah border parade is just too undignified to survive. Some wounds require reverence, not a carnival.

Beating Retreat to resume at Pakistan border after almost 2-week hiatus, handshake remains suspended

The scaled-down ceremony is being resumed after it was halted on 7 May, when India launched Op Sindoor, and Pakistan retaliated, resulting in escalated tensions at the border.

Navy set to withdraw its ceremonial uniform ‘No.2’, replace it with half-sleeved shirt & trousers

‘No. 2’ worn during formal parades, commissioning of ships, court martials. The ‘8A’ or half-sleeved shirt & white trousers, is already worn by naval personnel during day-to-day duty.

‘Ekla Chalo Re’ to ‘Saare Jahan se Achha’ — military bands to play Indian tunes at Beating Retreat

At this year’s Beating Retreat ceremony, Indian tunes based on classical ragas will be performed by military bands. There will also be 3-D anamorphic projection and drone shows.

The ‘make in India’ dream of an IIT-Delhi startup whose drones lit up sky at Beating the Retreat

The drones are the brainchild of BotLab Dynamics — a startup led by 2 IIT Delhi & a University of Illinois alumni. Even the drone body was made by a Seelampur fruit basket maker.

A plinth for every problem & merging ‘acche din’ with real life

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Abide With Me’ dropped from Beating Retreat ceremony, ‘Aye Mere Watan Ke Logon’ to replace it

Iconic hymn, said to be a favourite of Mahatma Gandhi, has been played to conclude Beating Retreat ceremony since 1950. Decision taken for ‘all tunes in line-up to be Indian’.

On Camera

Aryan Khan brings back the bad days of underworld-Bollywood nexus

While the series keeps things stylised and light, it’s grounded in a reality far darker—one that has shaped Bollywood’s history for decades.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

‘Attack on one is attack on both’—As Pakistan & Saudi Arabia sign pact, a look at their ties since 1967

Building on long-standing ties & Islamic solidarity, Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement comes at a time of heightened regional tensions especially after Israeli attack on Doha.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.