India is celebrating its 76th Republic Day with a colorful parade displaying its military might and cultural diversity at a ceremony on a boulevard in the heart of country’s capital.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Colourful tableaux, fighter jet formations and motorbike stunts by army daredevils marked India's Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi on Sunday, commemorating the day the nation's secular constitution came into effect in 1950.

On 27 October 1947, a 299-member Constituent Assembly began to draft the Indian constitution, which was finally adopted on 26 November 1949. It took three years for the Constituent Assembly to finalise the Indian constitution,

Kashmiris, on both sides of the Line of Control and world over, observed India’s Republic Day as a “Black Day” today to protest against human rights abuses in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto looked on as guest of honour at India's annual military and cultural parade in New Delhi held to mark the country's 76th Republic Day on Sunday.