{"id":307999,"date":"2019-01-12T03:35:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T03:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307999"},"modified":"2019-01-12T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T03:38:09","slug":"nepal-army-chief-purna-chandra-thapa-to-visit-india-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nepal-army-chief-purna-chandra-thapa-to-visit-india-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Army chief Purna Chandra Thapa to visit India today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308002 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/army-chief-nepal-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/army-chief-nepal-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/army-chief-nepal.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nepal\u2019s Chief of Army Staff, Purna Chandra Thapa will begin his four-day India visit on Saturday during which he will hold wide-ranging talks with top brass of the Indian Army with an aim to further expand bilateral military cooperation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thapa along with his seven-member team is visiting India on the invitation of Indian Army chief Bipin Rawat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This will be Thapa\u2019s first official bilateral visit after taking over the command of the Nepal Army.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Based on an age-old tradition existing between the armies of both countries,\u00a0the Nepal Army Chief is being conferred with the Honorary Rank of \u2018General of Indian Army\u2019 by President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday at Rashtrapati Bhawan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the visit General Thapa will be interacting with senior Indian Army hierarchy and shall be visiting formations based at Jaipur and Lucknow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The visit symbolises the deep-rooted military to military ties and shall be a platform to further strengthen the defence cooperation between the two armies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal\u2019s Chief of Army Staff, Purna Chandra Thapa will begin his four-day India visit on Saturday during which he will hold wide-ranging talks with top brass of the Indian Army with an aim to further expand bilateral military cooperation.\u00a0 Thapa along with his seven-member team is visiting India on the invitation of Indian Army chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10559,552,10573,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307999"}],"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=307999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308003,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307999\/revisions\/308003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}