{"id":18664,"date":"2018-01-15T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=18664"},"modified":"2018-01-15T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:45:20","slug":"70th-army-day-is-being-celebrated-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/70th-army-day-is-being-celebrated-today\/","title":{"rendered":"70th Army Day is being celebrated today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day marks the taking over of the Indian Army by the first Indian Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal KM Cariappa, on 15th January 1948.<\/p>\n<p>The day is celebrated to pay homage and salute to the courageous and brave Indian soldiers who have been sacrificing their lives for protecting the country. On<\/p>\n<p>the occasion of the Army Day, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat extended the best wishes to all army personnel. He said army remained committed as a force<\/p>\n<p>capable of meeting the challenges. He further said that while operational effectiveness to meet future challenges will remain our primary focus, contribution to<\/p>\n<p>nation building initiatives remains an abiding theme.<\/p>\n<p>General Rawat said, 2017 has seen the Indian Army actively involved in operations both on the borders and in the hinterland. In his message on the day, he<\/p>\n<p>said that army has given a befitting response to the adversary along the borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day marks the taking over of the Indian Army by the first Indian Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal KM Cariappa, on 15th January 1948. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18668,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18664\/revisions\/18668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}