President Pratibha Patil, India's first woman president, took salute as supreme commander of the armed forces. Kazakhsthan President Nursultan Nazarbayev was the chief guest and watched the 150-minute spectacle with keen interest, occasionally applauding the marchers.
There was hushed silence as Patil gave away posthumous Ashok Chakra awards, the country's highest gallantry award in peacetime, to 10 widows and a mother of soldiers and policemen who died fighting terrorists in Mumbai, New Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir. A sombre Patil patted each of them on their shoulders and shared a few comforting words with them.
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