{"id":323151,"date":"2020-05-12T03:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323151"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:59:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:59:22","slug":"prime-minister-modi-to-address-nation-at-8-pm-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prime-minister-modi-to-address-nation-at-8-pm-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Modi to address nation at 8 pm today"},"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-321357 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/PM-Modi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/PM-Modi-1.jpg 543w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/PM-Modi-1-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation today at 8 pm, a day after he spoke to the state chief ministers through video conferencing to discuss the current situation of COVID-19 in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Shri @narendramodi will be addressing the nation at 8 PM this evening,&#8221; the Prime Minister\u2019s Office tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This will be PM\u2009Modi\u2019s third address to the nation on the coronavirus lockdown. He had first announced the lockdown on March 24, then announced its extension on April 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The total confirmed COVID-19 cases in India has crossed the 70,000-mark so far while the death toll jumped to 2,293. The active cases in the country stand at 46,008, while 22,454 have been cured\/discharged, according to Health Ministry data.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation today at 8 pm, a day after he spoke to the state chief ministers through video conferencing to discuss the current situation of COVID-19 in the country. &#8220;Shri @narendramodi will be addressing the nation at 8 PM this evening,&#8221; the Prime Minister\u2019s Office tweeted. This will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323151"}],"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=323151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323153,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323151\/revisions\/323153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}