Topic: Republic Day
70 IRS officers get show-cause notice for not making Republic Day cards for soldiers
The IRS officer trainees were asked to explain their “utter indifference and lack of respect” towards soldiers.
Indian popular tunes that are pushing out colonial martial music at Beating the Retreat
The Beating the Retreat ceremony this year featured Bollywood songs like Lakshya and Ae Mere Pyaare Watan.
Beating the Retreat — a musical military tradition celebrating the Republic for 7 decades
Tracing its origins to early 1950s, Beating the Retreat is held on 29 January at Vijay Chowk every year to conclude Republic Day celebrations.
Dancing Queen, Rasputin greet Bolsonaro at Rashtrapati Bhavan Republic Day reception
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Air India’s ‘great offer’, the ‘poha test’ and no ‘jan ki baat’
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.
Republic Day at Shaheen Bagh on page 1, HT blames BJP for ‘divisive’ Delhi campaign
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RDay at Shaheen Bagh: Flag hoisted by ‘dadis’, Vemula mother; chants of Azadi, Jana Gana Mana
Thousands of people gathered at Shaheen Bagh to celebrate Republic Day who sang the national anthem and chanted slogans against CAA-NRC.
Congress sends PM a copy of Constitution, says ‘read when you get free from dividing nation’
Congress tweeted the message along with a picture of an Amazon receipt which stated that the copy of the Constitution was being dispatched to the Central Secretariat.
IAF’s Rafale model among 22 tableaux at Republic Day parade
Of the 22 tableaux that were exhibited on the Raj Path, 16 belonged to states and UTs and the other six were of ministries, departments and the NDRF.
ULFA is suspected to be involved in Assam bomb blasts: DGP
Assam DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said that police is undertaking the investigation regarding four bomb blasts that happened on the morning of Republic Day.
Globalisation of revenge
Nobody looks more ridiculous in the whole Iraq situation than the Europeans. A bit of their hypocrisy was on show in New Delhi.
Reliance Industries posts 15% profit drop as Covid hits oil demand
The company posted a net profit of Rs 9,567 crore in July-September compared with Rs 11,262 crore a year back.
Defence
India successfully test fires air-launched version of BrahMos missile from Sukhoi jet
The missile hit a sinking ship in the Bay of Bengal with accuracy, official sources said. It was fired after the Su-30 MKI aircraft travelled for over three hours.
Trump or Biden? Doesn’t matter to India-US ties as they’re in a full, strategic embrace
Pompeo & Esper’s visit to India for the 2+2 talks is proof that old hypocrisies are history, and supreme national interest has again driven a strategic choice.