{"id":312522,"date":"2019-05-22T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T09:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312522"},"modified":"2019-05-22T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T09:59:53","slug":"jk-governor-apologises-for-highway-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jk-governor-apologises-for-highway-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K Governor apologises for highway ban"},"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-306242 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/satya-pal-malik-pti-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/satya-pal-malik-pti-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/satya-pal-malik-pti-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/satya-pal-malik-pti-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/satya-pal-malik-pti-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/satya-pal-malik-pti-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/satya-pal-malik-pti-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/satya-pal-malik-pti.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday offered apology to the people\u00a0 for the inconvenience caused to them due to civilian traffic ban on Jammu-Srinagar highway.\u00a0 He, however, said\u00a0 the decision was taken in the national interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI apologise to the public for the inconvenience faced by them as a result of the restrictions on the movement on national highway but the ban was imposed in national interest,\u201d the Governor said\u00a0 while talking to journalists during the inauguration of second phase of a\u00a0flyover\u00a0 in Srinagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier J&amp;K\u00a0 Government had imposed a ban on the civilian movement on the national highway for two days a week &#8211; Wednesday and Sunday. The step was taken after 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men were killed in a suicide attack on highway in Pulwama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But on Tuesday, the government lifted the ban completely on the civilian movement on the highway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Talking about the Assembly elections in the statr, the governor\u00a0 said that it was for the election commission to take a call about its timing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday offered apology to the people\u00a0 for the inconvenience caused to them due to civilian traffic ban on Jammu-Srinagar highway.\u00a0 He, however, said\u00a0 the decision was taken in the national interest. \u201cI apologise to the public for the inconvenience faced by them as a result of the restrictions on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[4934,4366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312522"}],"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=312522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312523,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312522\/revisions\/312523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}