{"id":305260,"date":"2018-11-06T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305260"},"modified":"2018-11-06T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T09:30:00","slug":"defence-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-to-celebrate-diwali-with-troops-in-arunachal-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/defence-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-to-celebrate-diwali-with-troops-in-arunachal-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to celebrate Diwali with troops in Arunachal Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-299648 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nirmala-1-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirmala-1-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirmala-1-403x420.jpg 403w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirmala-1.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will arrive in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday to celebrate Diwali with troops in Upper Dibang Valley district, a defence official said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Continuing the tradition of celebrating Diwali with the families of our soldiers, Smt @nsitharaman will celebrate Diwali this year at Dinjan (Assam), Andra La-Omkar and Anini (Arunachal Pradesh),\u201d the Defence Ministry confirmed her visit in a tweet on Monday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sitharam will be accompanied by Eastern Army Commander and other senior officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During her visit, she will be briefed about the defence preparedness and infrastructure improvements by the Army in the region, an official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;She is expected to conduct an aerial survey of the region and will meet troops in Andra La-Omkar and Anini on Wednesday,&#8221; official added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will arrive in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday to celebrate Diwali with troops in Upper Dibang Valley district, a defence official said.\u00a0 &#8220;Continuing the tradition of celebrating Diwali with the families of our soldiers, Smt @nsitharaman will celebrate Diwali this year at Dinjan (Assam), Andra La-Omkar and Anini (Arunachal Pradesh),\u201d the Defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9566,2168,293],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305260"}],"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=305260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305263,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305260\/revisions\/305263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}