{"id":302476,"date":"2018-09-10T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T14:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302476"},"modified":"2018-09-10T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T14:50:56","slug":"bimstec-military-training-exercise-begins-in-pune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bimstec-military-training-exercise-begins-in-pune\/","title":{"rendered":"BIMSTEC military training exercise begins in Pune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/bimstec-military-training-exercise-begins-in-pune\/bimstec\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302481\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302481 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bimstec-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bimstec-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bimstec-768x341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bimstec-1024x455.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bimstec-696x309.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bimstec-946x420.jpg 946w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bimstec.jpg 1063w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a>The Military Field Training Exercise for the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)\u00a0nations called MILEX 2018, started with a grand opening ceremony at\u00a0Aundh Military Station, Pune on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0Military Field Training Exercise will be held from September 10 to 16, amongst teams from member nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BIMSTEC is a regional grouping comprising Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, The Nepal Army had withdrawn the first ever joint military exercise of BIMSTEC nations in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Saturday, an aide of Prime Minister KP Oli said, that the political parties in the country had expressed concern over the participation in the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The aim of MILEX 2018 is to have joint practice among BIMSTEC nations to counter and prevent spread of terrorism and radicalisation, especially in semi-urban areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Military Field Training Exercise for the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)\u00a0nations called MILEX 2018, started with a grand opening ceremony at\u00a0Aundh Military Station, Pune on Monday. The\u00a0Military Field Training Exercise will be held from September 10 to 16, amongst teams from member nations. BIMSTEC is a regional grouping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4885,2267,4882,4495,574,4884,4883,4605,552,106,4881,3522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302483,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302476\/revisions\/302483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}