According to UP government officials, if the current rate of decline from natural ageing continues, not one of them may be alive to salute the tricolour on Independence Day 2026

Operation Sindoor will be the centrepiece of the 79th Independence Day celebrations that will be led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Red Fort today. Multiple officers instrumental in the operation are on the annual military honour rolls.

A teen girl allegedly committed suicide on Thursday by jumping off the 23rd floor of a building in Goregaon East, a Mumbai police official said.