Astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi captured from ISS the night view of New Delhi, the capital of India.

Independence Day is celebrated annually on Aug. 15 as a national holiday in India commemorating the nation’s independence from the United Kingdom on Aug. 15,1947, the day when the provisions of the 1947 Indian Independence Act, which transferred legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constituent Assembly, came into effect. India retained King George VI as head of state until its transition to a republic, when the Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950 (celebrated as Indian Republic Day) and replaced the dominion prefix, Dominion of India, with the enactment of the sovereign law Constitution of India. Independence Day is observed throughout India with flag-hoisting ceremonies, parades and cultural events. It is a national holiday. Simultaneously, the Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan. Provisions for self-governing independent Pakistan and India legally came into existence at midnight on 14 and 15 August 1947 respectively.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Reference: Sultan Al Neyadi’s Tweet
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New Delhi, India