{"id":311126,"date":"2019-04-09T05:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T05:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311126"},"modified":"2019-04-09T06:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T06:13:19","slug":"crpf-celebrating-its-54th-valour-day-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/crpf-celebrating-its-54th-valour-day-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"CRPF celebrating its 54th Valour Day on Tuesday"},"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-311130 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CRPF-1-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/CRPF-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/CRPF-1-696x378.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/CRPF-1.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is celebrating its 54th Valour Day on Tuesday. On April 9, 1965, a small contingent of 2nd Battalion of CRPF successfully fought and repulsed an attack by a Pakistani Brigade on Sardar Post in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, eliminating 34 Pakistani soldiers and capturing four alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Never in the history of military battles have a handful of policemen fought back a full-fledged infantry Brigade in such a manner. In this conflict, six valiant CRPF men also attained martyrdom. As a tribute to the brave men of the Force, 9th April is befittingly celebrated as &#8220;Valour Day\u201d in the Force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind paid homage to the martyrs of police at National Police Memorial in New Delhi on the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is celebrating its 54th Valour Day on Tuesday. On April 9, 1965, a small contingent of 2nd Battalion of CRPF successfully fought and repulsed an attack by a Pakistani Brigade on Sardar Post in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, eliminating 34 Pakistani soldiers and capturing four alive. Never in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11242,1176,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311126"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311132,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311126\/revisions\/311132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}