{"id":323864,"date":"2020-06-11T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323864"},"modified":"2020-06-11T08:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:08:29","slug":"need-to-turn-coronavirus-crisis-into-opportunity-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/need-to-turn-coronavirus-crisis-into-opportunity-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to turn coronavirus crisis into opportunity: PM Modi"},"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-323865 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/modi-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-4.jpg 791w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-4-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-4-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-4-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/modi-4-627x420.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday delivered the inaugural address of the 95th annual plenary session of Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and said, \u201cOur country has gone through multiple challenges with coronavirus.\u201d India is fighting COVID-19 but many other crises have emerged including floods, locust attack, earthquakes and cyclones in two different parts of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi said every citizen of India has resolved to turn COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity. \u201cWe have to make it a major turning point for country. Coronavirus has given us the opportunity to turn India self-reliant,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said ICC has contributed to develop East and northeast India, especially manufacturing sector there, are historical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have to revive the historical excellence of Bengal in manufacturing sector. What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow,\u201d Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday delivered the inaugural address of the 95th annual plenary session of Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and said, \u201cOur country has gone through multiple challenges with coronavirus.\u201d India is fighting COVID-19 but many other crises have emerged including floods, locust attack, earthquakes and cyclones in two different parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323865,"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\/323864"}],"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=323864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323866,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323864\/revisions\/323866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}