New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- The front stretch of Mumbai's historic Gateway of India got filled with a few thousands Mumbaikars who gathered there on 15 August 2025, India's 79th Independence Day, 202 to attend the performance of the joint Army and Navy Band. The iconic Gateway was constructed during British rule as a ceremonial entrance to India and is the very site from where the last of their troops departed in 1948. While performances by military bands for the public at the same site every year draw a fair crowd, this time the gathering seemed larger than usual - possibly in a show of strong patriotic support for the armed forces in the wake of Operation Sindoor, the Indian military operation against Pakistan in retaliation for the killing o...