{"id":316644,"date":"2019-11-13T12:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316644"},"modified":"2019-11-13T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T12:23:18","slug":"prince-of-wales-calls-on-president-kovind-at-rashtrapati-bhavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prince-of-wales-calls-on-president-kovind-at-rashtrapati-bhavan\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince of Wales calls on President Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-316645 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kovind-prince-of-wales.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"913\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/kovind-prince-of-wales.jpg 913w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/kovind-prince-of-wales-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/kovind-prince-of-wales-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/kovind-prince-of-wales-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/kovind-prince-of-wales-635x420.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px\" \/>The Prince of Wales on Wednesday called on\u00a0President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Welcoming the Prince to India, the President congratulated him on his election as the head of the Commonwealth. He said that India considers the Commonwealth as an important grouping that voices the concerns of a large number of countries, including the Small Island Developing States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Kovind said that India and the United Kingdom are natural partners bound by historical ties and shared values of democracy, rule of law and respect for multi-cultural society. As the world\u2019s pre-eminent democracies. \u201cOur two countries have much to contribute together to effectively address the many challenges faced by the world today,\u201d Kovind added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prince planted a Champa sapling \u2013 plant native to the subcontinent which has several uses in Ayurveda \u2013 in the Herbal Garden of Rashtrapati Bhavan. He was taken around the garden and shown different plants that have medicinal properties.\u00a0\u00a0The Prince showed a keen interest in India\u2019s alternative model of healthcare.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The President thanked the Prince of Wales for his support for Ayurveda research. The Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation and the All India Institute of Ayurveda signed an MOU during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the UK in April 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under the MOU, the All India Institute of Ayurveda and the College of Medicine, UK will be conducting clinical research on Depression, Anxiety and Fibromyalgia.\u00a0\u00a0They will also be undertaking training programme for the development of Standard Operating Protocol on \u201cAYURYOGA\u201d for UK Health professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince of Wales on Wednesday called on\u00a0President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Welcoming the Prince to India, the President congratulated him on his election as the head of the Commonwealth. He said that India considers the Commonwealth as an important grouping that voices the concerns of a large number of countries, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11999,1452,2144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316644"}],"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=316644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316646,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316644\/revisions\/316646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}