Top European Union officials joined India's grandiose Republic Day parade as the guests of honor on Monday, a day before New Delhi and Brussels are expected to seal a long-awaited free trade agreement, touted as the "mother of all deals."
Military bands and horse and camel cavalry units paraded through the capital, New Delhi, while fighter jets buzzed overhead and India's latest military hardware was put on display.
"The occasion inspires us in our collective resolve to build a developed India," India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said before the parade.
The fanfare also featured Indian air defense systems β including missiles and drones β that were deployed in the four-day
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