{"id":135157,"date":"2023-06-22T17:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=135157"},"modified":"2023-06-22T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T00:24:48","slug":"acting-defence-minister-visits-indian-submarine-ins-vagir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/06\/22\/acting-defence-minister-visits-indian-submarine-ins-vagir\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Defence Minister visits Indian Submarine \u2018INS Vagir\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Media Centre &#8211; MOD<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Acting Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon made a visit to the Indian Navy Submarine \u2018INS Vagir\u2019 at the Colombo port on Wednesday (Jun 21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Tennakoon was received by the Commander of the submarine, Commander Divakar S on his arrival at the jetty and later accompanied him to the Submarine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the hosted tour of the Submarine, the Minister was given a briefing on the technical and maritime capabilities of the vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commander of Western Naval Command Rear Admiral Suresh De Silva and Defence Advisor of the Indian High Commission in Colombo Captain Vikas Sood were also present during the tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Centre &#8211; MOD Acting Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon made a visit to the Indian Navy Submarine \u2018INS Vagir\u2019 at the Colombo port on Wednesday (Jun 21). Minister Tennakoon was received by the Commander of the submarine, Commander Divakar S on his arrival at the jetty and later accompanied him to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135157","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=135157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}