Republic Day 2020: Twitter launches tricolour India Gate emoji to celebrate 26th January

Twitter India has launched a specially designed emoji of the India Gate lit up in the tricolor to celebrate India's 71st Republic Day.

As per reports, President Ram Nath Kovind will tweet with this emoji on January 25 during his address to the nation.

According to a statement released by senior Twitter official Mahima Kaul: "We believe that the 2020 Republic Day emoji will resonate with Indians across languages, cultures and time zones, giving them yet another reason, and way to celebrate and participate in public conversation."

The emoji will be available in English and ten other Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu and Gurmukhi. It will be live until January 30. This is the fifth year Twitter has supported Republic Day in India with a custom emoji.

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