{"id":139149,"date":"2023-12-20T18:12:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T01:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139149"},"modified":"2023-12-20T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T01:12:47","slug":"new-indian-assistant-da-meets-defence-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/20\/new-indian-assistant-da-meets-defence-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"New Indian Assistant DA Meets Defence Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The newly appointed Assistant Defence Advisor at the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka, Lieutenant Colonel Mandeep Singh Negi made a courtesy call on the Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Defence Ministry in the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayewardenepura, Kotte, Today (Dec 20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a warm reception, the Defence Secretary held a cordial discussion with Lt. Col. Negi and extended his wishes for his appointment at the Indian HC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting concluded with the sharing of souvenirs to mark the occasion. Military Liaison Officer of the Ministry of Defence Maj. Gen. Dhammika Welagedara was also present at the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre The newly appointed Assistant Defence Advisor at the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka, Lieutenant Colonel Mandeep Singh Negi made a courtesy call on the Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Defence Ministry in the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayewardenepura, Kotte, Today (Dec 20). Following a warm [&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-139149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139149","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=139149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}