{"id":323117,"date":"2020-05-10T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323117"},"modified":"2020-05-10T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T12:33:13","slug":"india-sends-ins-kesari-with-medical-teams-essentials-to-maldives-mauritius-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-sends-ins-kesari-with-medical-teams-essentials-to-maldives-mauritius-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"India sends INS Kesari with medical teams, essentials to Maldives, Mauritius to fight Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323119 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200510_175324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200510_175324.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200510_175324-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/>As part of the Government of India outreach amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Indian Naval Ship Kesari on\u00a0 Sunday departed for Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Comoros, to provide food Items, COVID related medicines including HCQ Tablets and Special Ayurvedic Medicines with Medical Assistance Teams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to the official release, &#8220;this deployment as \u2018Mission Sagar\u2019, is in line with India\u2019s role as the first responder in the region and builds on the excellent relations existing between these countries to battle the COVID-19 pandemic and its resultant difficulties.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;The deployment is in consonance with the Prime Ministers vision of Security and Growth for All in the Region \u2018SAGAR\u2019 and highlights the importance accorded by India to relations with her neighbouring countries and further strengthens the existing bond. The operation is being progressed in close coordination with the Ministries of Defence and External Affairs, and other agencies of the Government of India,&#8221; the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">As part of Mission Sagar, Indian Naval Ship Kesari would enter the Port of Male in Republic of Maldives, to provide them 600 tons of food provisions. India and Maldives are close maritime neighbours with strong and extremely cordial defence and diplomatic relations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Government of India outreach amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Indian Naval Ship Kesari on\u00a0 Sunday departed for Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Comoros, to provide food Items, COVID related medicines including HCQ Tablets and Special Ayurvedic Medicines with Medical Assistance Teams.\u00a0 According to the official release, &#8220;this deployment as \u2018Mission Sagar\u2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323117"}],"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=323117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323120,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323117\/revisions\/323120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}