1/10 - Beating Retreat ceremony at Delhi's Vijay Chowk
2/10 - President Droupadi Murmu being escorted out of Rashtrapati Bhavan
3/10 - President Murmu arrives at Vijay Chowk to attend the Beating Retreat ceremony
She is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
4/10 - President Murmu meets the chief of the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force before the ceremony
5/10 - Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the ceremony
6/10 - Defence minister Rajnath Singh was also in attendance
7/10 - The chiefs of Indian Army, Navy and Air Force salute President Murmu
8/10 - Beating the Retreat ceremony marks the formal end of the Republic Day celebrations
9/10 - 29 Indian tunes were played by the bands of the army, navy, air force
The state police and Central Armed Police Force bands also participated in the ceremony.
10/10 - The ceremony traces its origins to the early 1950s
According to a defence ministry statement, Major Roberts of the Indian Army had indigenously developed this unique ceremony of display by the massed bands.
