In sync with the Digital India campaign of central government, Ministry of Defence has launched a-mobile-app ''RDP India 2019'', to let people watch highlights of Republic Day event all over the world. The app was launched on Saturday on occasion of 70th Republic Day. People present at the parade could use the app to get details of the parade as they watched it live.
Soldiers posted at Jammu and Kashmir's Siachen were treated to a Republic Day surprise. A pizza delivery company sent a team to deliver pizzas to the Army base in Siachen today. Soldiers can be seen all smiles as they lined up to take their pizzas in a video shared on Twitter.
A group of Indian-origin South African nationals who attended the Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi were moved after seeing the Railway's tableau themed on the transformation of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Mahatma. Yashika Singh, who hails from KwaZulu-Natal Province, said the Pietermaritzburg train incident depicted in the tableau ''Mohan to Mahatma'' touched "many emotional chords among us".