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Several hours before the ceremony, enthusiastic spectators began trickling into sitting areas on either side of chunky iron gates separating the two nations at the Attari-Wagah frontier. As the sun set on the India-Pakistan border, crowds went wild and soldiers goose-stepped in a chest-puffing theatrical ritual at the Beating ...

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Thirty-one girls from eight districts of the Indore division have been selected to visit Attari border, near Amritsar, to watch the 'Beating the Retreat' ceremony. They left for Bhopal from the Indore railway station on Sunday morning for their journey to Attari border.On this occasion, joint ...

Jammu, January 29: To mark the culmination of the Republic Day celebrations-2022, the customary Beating Retreat ceremony was held at the Maulana Azad Stadium here this evening.Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha was the chief guest for the ceremony.During the beating retreat ceremony, marching Bands of Armed Forces were displayed and ...

Samba (Jammu and Kashmir) , January 29 (ANI): Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that India will become the fourth country in the world after UK, Russia and China to light up 1,000 drones in the sky during the beating retreat ceremony. Speaking to ANI, the Union Minister ...

New Delhi: Abide With Me, a decades-old staple tune at the Beating Retreat ceremony and said to be a favourite of Mahatma Gandhi, does not figure in the lineup announced by the government on Saturday for the January 29 musical extravaganza that will feature a raft of military bands ...

The ruling party at the Centre miscalculated in not projecting state-level leaders. Its polarising campaign, crude barbs at Mamata and the mishandling of the second Covid wave did not go down well with the voter. Defining Moments: 2021 2021 will be best remembered for two events. The deadly impact ...

Source link www.rferl.org The chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan and the lightning collapse of the internationally recognized government in Kabul in August spelled the end of the West’s nearly 20-year foothold in the war-torn country. Now, with the Taliban back in control of Afghanistan, other ...

India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister isn’t given to apologizing. For years, hoping for some sign of remorse, the media kept asking Narendra Modi if he ever regretted the 2002 pogrom against Muslims in the western state of Gujarat, when he was its top elected official. The closest they ever ...

Despite large-scale nationwide protests, Modi backed a controversial law passed in 2019 that granted a pathway to citizenship for migrants of several religions, including Hindus, Buddhists and Christians, but not Muslims. Earlier that year, Modi’s government unilaterally revoked the semiautonomous status of Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state. Source ...

The withdrawal of the Southwest Monsoon commenced on Wednesday and it receded from some parts of West Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.This is the second-most delayed withdrawal of the Southwest Monsoon since 1960. Monsoon withdrawal from northwest India in 2019 started on October 9, ...