{"id":121076,"date":"2021-12-10T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121076"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:58:44","slug":"prime-minister-rajapaksa-conveys-condolences-to-prime-minister-modi-on-the-death-of-chief-of-defence-staff-of-the-indian-armed-forces-general-bipin-rawat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/10\/prime-minister-rajapaksa-conveys-condolences-to-prime-minister-modi-on-the-death-of-chief-of-defence-staff-of-the-indian-armed-forces-general-bipin-rawat\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Rajapaksa Conveys Condolences to Prime Minister Modi on the Death of Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed Forces General Bipin Rawat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister\nMahinda Rajapaksa has conveyed his condolences to Indian Prime Minister\nNarendra Modi on the death of the Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed\nForces General Bipin Rawat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is with\nprofound sorrow that I convey my deepest condolences to the Government and the\npeople of India on the loss of a distinguished son of the nation, General Bipin\nRawat, Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed Forces, his spouse Madhulika\nRawat and 11 staff members in a tragic aircraft crash yesterday,\u201d Prime\nMinister Rajapaksa said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Rawat, his\nwife and the other staff members died after the helicopter they were traveling\nin crashed in Tamil Nadu yesterday. \n\nThe Government and\nthe people of Sri Lanka join me in conveying our profound sympathy to the\nbereaved families on their irreparable loss,\u201d the Prime Minister further\nstated. Gen. Rawat will be long remembered by Sri Lanka as an exceptional\nfriend who contributed immensely to the enhancement of Sri Lanka-India defence\ncooperation.\u201d\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has conveyed his condolences to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the death of the Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed Forces General Bipin Rawat. It is with profound sorrow that I convey my deepest condolences to the Government and the people of India on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}