{"id":313506,"date":"2019-06-21T05:51:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313506"},"modified":"2019-06-21T05:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:51:16","slug":"defence-minister-rajnath-singh-pays-homage-to-iaf-personnel-killed-in-an-32-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/defence-minister-rajnath-singh-pays-homage-to-iaf-personnel-killed-in-an-32-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister Rajnath Singh pays homage to IAF personnel killed in AN-32 crash"},"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=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-313507\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rajnath-singh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/rajnath-singh.jpg 798w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/rajnath-singh-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/rajnath-singh-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/rajnath-singh-696x469.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/rajnath-singh-623x420.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday paid homage to the 13 Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel who were killed in AN-32 plane crash in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPaid tributes to brave Air-warriors @IAF_MCC, who lost their lives in the unfortunate An-32 crash on 03 June, 19 in Arunachal Pradesh. They served the nation with confidence and courage. I salute their sacrifice in the line of duty,\u201d Rajnath said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajnath also met with the families and friends of the deceased Air-warriors<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMet with the families and friends of the deceased Air-warriors of An32 and shared my grief and heartfelt condolences with them. My thoughts and prayers are with them. May God give them strength to bear this monumental loss,\u201d Rajnath added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The IAF recovered remains of 13 air warriors on Thursday, 18 days after the crash. The remains were then brought to Jorhat in Assam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAir Marshal RD Mathur, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Air Command paid tributes to the Air-warriors at a wreath-laying ceremony in Jorhat on Thursday,\u201d IAF said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday paid homage to the 13 Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel who were killed in AN-32 plane crash in Arunachal Pradesh. \u201cPaid tributes to brave Air-warriors @IAF_MCC, who lost their lives in the unfortunate An-32 crash on 03 June, 19 in Arunachal Pradesh. They served the nation with confidence and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2047,2597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313506"}],"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=313506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313508,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313506\/revisions\/313508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}