He called upon the young ignited minds of the country to come out with new ideas and innovations and help the government make India a developed nation as envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Congress president said Beijing "should be confronted strategically together and not by making hollow boasts".
President, vice-president, PM and Lok Sabha speaker among other dignitaries led the nation in paying tributes to the architect of the Indian constitution.
Highlighting that the world has now become a village, Mr Dhankhar said that India’s civilizational ethos has always promoted the idea of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’.
MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made several announcements for the welfare of the Sindhi community.
In his State of the Nation address, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday has blamed the West and Ukraine for starting the war and added that "we are using force to stop it".
The fineprint of his speech must be that the clash of civilizations is currently seldom more acute anywhere in the world than it is in India.
The agitators set afire the trains at Telangana station in the twin city of Secunderabad while people in Patna disrupted rail and road traffic. The protesters also set the Bhagalpur-New Delhi Vikramshila Express and Jammu Tawi-Guwahati Express trains on fire.
The 61-year-old kicked off his five-year term at midnight in the underground bunker of the new presidential office building in Yongsan by receiving a briefing from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It has been decided that the Republic Day celebrations will now be week-long from 23-30 January every year. The celebrations commenced on 23 January, the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and will culminate on 30 January, which is observed as the Martyrs’ Day.
