{"id":56374,"date":"2019-03-04T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56374"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:04:43","slug":"iaf-pilot-abhinandan-varthaman-to-get-bhagwan-mahavir-ahimsa-puraskar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/iaf-pilot-abhinandan-varthaman-to-get-bhagwan-mahavir-ahimsa-puraskar\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman to get &#8216;Bhagwan Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman will be the first recipient of the &#8216;Bhagwan Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar&#8217; instituted by the Akhil Bharatiya Digambar Jain Mahasamiti, a functionary of the organisation said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Varthaman, piloting a Mig-21 Bison, shot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16 with an R-73 air-to-air missile in a dogfight on February 27 before his aircraft took a hit and he had to eject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was captured by Pakistan forces soon after and was released on March 1.The award for the fighter pilot was announced in New Delhi by the organisation&#8217;s chairperson Manidra Jain, said its Maharashtra chapter convener Paras Lohade here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award, instituted this year, carries a cash prize of Rs 2.51 lakh, a memento and a citation and will be presented to Varthaman on April 17, coinciding with Mahavir Jayanti, Lohade said.<\/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>Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman will be the first recipient of the &#8216;Bhagwan Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar&#8217; instituted by the Akhil Bharatiya Digambar Jain Mahasamiti, a functionary of the organisation said on Sunday. Varthaman, piloting a Mig-21 Bison, shot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16 with an R-73 air-to-air missile in a dogfight on [&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":56375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56374","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\/56374","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=56374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56376,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56374\/revisions\/56376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}