{"id":314728,"date":"2019-08-27T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314728"},"modified":"2019-08-27T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:16:22","slug":"pm-modi-meets-pv-sindhu-calls-her-indias-pride-and-champion-after-historic-win-at-bwf-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-meets-pv-sindhu-calls-her-indias-pride-and-champion-after-historic-win-at-bwf-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi meets PV Sindhu, calls her \u2018India\u2019s pride and champion\u2019 after historic win at BWF World Championships"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-314729 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sindhu-modi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sindhu-modi.jpg 645w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sindhu-modi-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sindhu-modi-536x420.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met ace shuttler PV Sindhu, two days after she won a historic gold at BWF World Championships in Basel, Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Calling her India\u2019s pride, PM Modi tweeted photos of himself with Sindhu in which he was seen presenting her the gold medal she won in the World Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia\u2019s pride, a champion who has brought home a Gold and lots of glory! Happy to have met @Pvsindhu1. Congratulated her and wished her the very best for her future endeavours,\u201d Modi 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;\">Sindhu became the first Indian to win badminton World Championships gold by beating Nozomi Okuhara of Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi had also congratulated PV Sindhu after the final. \u201cThe stupendously talented @Pvsindhu1 makes India proud again! Congratulations to her for winning the Gold at the BWF World Championships. The passion and dedication with which she\u2019s pursued badminton is inspiring. PV Sindhu\u2019s success will inspire generations of players,\u201d he had said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met ace shuttler PV Sindhu, two days after she won a historic gold at BWF World Championships in Basel, Switzerland. Calling her India\u2019s pride, PM Modi tweeted photos of himself with Sindhu in which he was seen presenting her the gold medal she won in the World Championships. \u201cIndia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316,4023],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314728"}],"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=314728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314731,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314728\/revisions\/314731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}