The celebrations begin in New Delhi for the Republic Day. The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh pays tribute to the matryrs at Amar Jawan Jyoti.
A video of a German woman explaining why she speaks English with a distinctly Indian accent has grabbed the internet's attention.
The British F-35B fighter jet, stuck in Kerala for two weeks after it made an emergency landing, will be moved to the hangar of the airport once "engineering teams from the UK arrive with specialist equipment."