{"id":327580,"date":"2020-10-15T08:20:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T08:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327580"},"modified":"2020-10-15T08:21:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T08:21:04","slug":"president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tribute-to-apj-abdul-kalam-on-his-89th-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tribute-to-apj-abdul-kalam-on-his-89th-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, PM Modi pay tribute to APJ Abdul Kalam on his 89th birth Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/nation-remembers-dr-apj-abdul-kalam-on-his-birth-anniversary\/abdul-kalam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-315689\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-315689 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abdul-kalam-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/abdul-kalam-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/abdul-kalam.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on his 89th birth Anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">President Kovind paid floral tributes to Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tribute-to-apj-abdul-kalam-on-his-89th-birth-anniversary\/apj-tributes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327581\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327581 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apj-tributes-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/apj-tributes-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/apj-tributes-696x402.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/apj-tributes.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Paying tributes to Dr Kalam, PM Modi shared a video on his twitter account with a message, &#8220;Tributes to Dr. Kalam on his Jayanti. India can never forget his indelible contribution towards national development, be it as a scientist and as the President of India. His life journey gives strength to millions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Paying tributes, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, &#8220;Remembering former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on his jayanti. Committed to realising the dream of New and Strong India, Kalam Sahab dedicated his whole life for building India\u2019s future. He will continue to inspire our coming generations. Tributes to him on his jayanti.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on his 89th birth Anniversary. President Kovind paid floral tributes to Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Paying tributes to Dr Kalam, PM Modi shared a video on his twitter account with a message, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":315689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327580"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327583,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327580\/revisions\/327583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}