{"id":304688,"date":"2018-10-26T05:17:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304688"},"modified":"2018-10-26T05:17:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:17:50","slug":"himachal-pradesh-nri-paraglider-from-australia-dies-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-nri-paraglider-from-australia-dies-after-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh: NRI Paraglider from Australia Dies After Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304689\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/paraglide-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/paraglide-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/paraglide.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Non-Resident Indian (NRI) from Australia Sanjay Kumar Ramdas Devarkonda died in a paragliding mishap after he crash-landed in the Joginder Nagar area of Mandi district, police said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 50-year-old went missing after he took off from Bir Billing paragliding site on Wednesday and a rescue operation was launched to find him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Devarkonda body was found after six hours of search near Joginder Nagar area on Thursday and was sent for post-mortem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He, however, died before the rescue team could reach him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Devarkonda was a resident of New South Wales in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the second death of a paraglider in Himachal Pradesh over the past week. Earlier Singaporean paraglider Kok\u00a0Choonk Na was found dead in Kangra Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A number of foreign and domestic paragliders have swarmed the valley in the run-up to the\u00a0Paragliding\u00a0Pre-World Cup\u00a0to be held in\u00a0Bir\u00a0Billing on October 27.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Non-Resident Indian (NRI) from Australia Sanjay Kumar Ramdas Devarkonda died in a paragliding mishap after he crash-landed in the Joginder Nagar area of Mandi district, police said on Thursday. The 50-year-old went missing after he took off from Bir Billing paragliding site on Wednesday and a rescue operation was launched to find him. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[7736,1340,9027,9026],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304688"}],"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=304688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304690,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304688\/revisions\/304690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}