{"id":47758,"date":"2018-11-20T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=47758"},"modified":"2018-11-20T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:20:15","slug":"two-helicopters-gifted-by-india-will-remain-in-maldives-maldives-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/two-helicopters-gifted-by-india-will-remain-in-maldives-maldives-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Two helicopters gifted by India will remain in Maldives: Maldives Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maldives new defence minister has said that the two helicopters gifted by India will remain in Maldives.<\/p>\n<p>Mariya Ahmed Didi, who was sworn in on Saturday, told a news channel that it is not in their culture to ask neighbours to take back what they give.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the helicopters can be put to good use such as evacuations and search and rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>The comments assume significance as Maldives requested India to take back the two helicopters during the former regime of Abdulla Yameen.<\/p>\n<p>The government was even refusing to renew the visas of personnel deployed for its operations and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>India had gifted the Dhruv helicopters in 2013 following a request from Maldives.<\/p>\n<p>They were primarily used for emergency medical evacuation and to conduct search and rescue operations over water.<\/p>\n<p>The new administration of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has asserted that it will be working to improve bilateral relations with India.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maldives new defence minister has said that the two helicopters gifted by India will remain in Maldives. Mariya Ahmed Didi, who was sworn in on Saturday, told a news channel that it is not in their culture to ask neighbours to take back what they give. She added that the helicopters can be put to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47758","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=47758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47760,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47758\/revisions\/47760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}