Tricolour  

Celebrate Republic Day 2025 with these 5 tricolour food recipes, featuring idli, sandwich, pulao, dhokla, and kulfi. Each dish features the colours of the Indian flag using natural ingredients like spinach, carrot, and saffron.

The Indian national flag, with its distinctive saffron, white, and green stripes and the Ashoka Chakra, represents unity and pride. Proper display and handling are essential to uphold its dignity.
 

According to the Flag Code of India, 2002, there are clear guidelines on who is permitted to display the tricolour on their vehicles and who is not. Violating these rules and regulations can result in heavy penalties.

The Indian Tricolour, with its saffron, white, and green bands, plus the Ashoka Chakra, symbolizes national pride. It follows strict design, manufacturing, and usage guidelines.

This Independence Day, give this unique Tricolour Coconut Barfi a try, and make your celebrations brighter.

Mahatma Gandhi asked Venkayya to design the flag and he studied the flags of 30 countries over five years, from 1916 to 1921, culminating in the creation of the tricolour.

Lt Rishi promised to return home for his sister's wedding; he came draped in tricolour

The National flag of India in its current form was first adopted during the Constituent Assembly held on July 22, 1947.

The Empire State building would be lit in the hues of the national flag. The day would end with a gala cruise on the Hudson River, attended by top government officials, special guests and members of Indian American community.

On 74th Independence Day, world-famous Niagara Falls in Canada, Empire State Building in New York, Burj Khalifa in Dubai were lit up in the colours of the Indian national flag.

Newly appointed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha hoisted the Tricolour in Srinagar
 

The Indian flag will be unveiled at the iconic Times Square in New York for the first time on Independence Day

Indian tricolor of more than 1,000 metres in size was projected on Matterhorn mountain, Zermatt, Switzerland to express solidarity to all Indians in the fight against coronavirus (COVID 19). PM Narendra Modi has reacted to this

A 12-year old Mumbai student, Kaamya Karthikeyan recently set a record of becoming the youngest in the world to summit Mt. Aconcagua, the highest peak of the Andes Mountains in Argentina, South America. Kaamya, a Class VII student of Navy Children School, achieved the feat atop the 6962 metres tall mountain on February 1 where she unfurled the Indian Tricolour. No stranger to tall mountains, Kaamya had summited Ladakh's 6,260 metres Mt. Mentok Kangri II, under extreme cold weather conditions on August 24, 2019. Let’s find out more about this young mountaineer and her journey in this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer.

A tweet put out by Barkha Dutt shows two women proudly displaying the tricolour in their attire. As she put it out, Twitterati pointed out it was because of Modi that such a change in behaviour was observed.