{"id":323129,"date":"2020-05-11T04:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T04:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323129"},"modified":"2020-05-11T04:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T04:54:19","slug":"national-technology-day-pm-modi-salutes-those-at-forefront-of-research-to-defeat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/national-technology-day-pm-modi-salutes-those-at-forefront-of-research-to-defeat-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"National Technology Day: PM Modi salutes those at forefront of research to defeat Covid-19"},"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-321465 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200324-212446__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200324-212446__01.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200324-212446__01-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200324-212446__01-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200324-212446__01-696x430.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_20200324-212446__01-681x420.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>On the National Technology Day on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi saluted all those who are leveraging technology to bring a positive difference in the lives of others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The day is observed to mark the successful testing of nuclear missiles in 1998 under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOn National Technology Day, our nation salutes all those who are leveraging technology to bring a positive difference in the lives of others. We remember the exceptional achievement of our scientists on this day in 1998. It was a landmark moment in India\u2019s history,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe tests in Pokhran in 1998 also showed the difference a strong political leadership can make,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister further said, \u201cToday, technology is helping many in the efforts to make the world free from COVID-19. I salute all those at the forefront of research and innovation on ways to defeat Coronavirus. May we keep harnessing technology in order to create a healthier and better planet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi also shared a video of his comments on Pokhran, India\u2019s scientists and former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee during one of the Mann Ki Baat programmes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the National Technology Day on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi saluted all those who are leveraging technology to bring a positive difference in the lives of others. The day is observed to mark the successful testing of nuclear missiles in 1998 under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. \u201cOn National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316,11332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323129"}],"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=323129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323130,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323129\/revisions\/323130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}