{"id":163941,"date":"2021-06-20T02:27:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T20:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=163941"},"modified":"2021-06-20T02:27:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T20:57:10","slug":"gov-mourns-milkha-singhs-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/06\/20\/gov-mourns-milkha-singhs-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov mourns Milkha Singh&#8217;s demise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 19 Jun:<\/strong> Governor BD Mishra has mourned the demise of legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of independent India&#8217;s biggest sporting icons, ace sprinter Milkha Singh, who was known as the &#8216;Flying Sikh&#8217;, died at a Chandigarh hospital on Friday after a month-long battle with Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor said that, in the departure of Milkha Singh, the nation has lost one of its brightest sports stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A finest athlete and a sporting legend, he inspired many generations of sportspersons, especially in individual athletic events. Singh brought laurels for the nation and made every Indian proud,&#8221; the governor said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I join the people of Arunachal Pradesh in paying our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and eternal peace of the departed soul,&#8221; he said. (Raj Bhavan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 19 Jun: Governor BD Mishra has mourned the demise of legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh. One of independent India&#8217;s biggest sporting icons, ace sprinter Milkha Singh, who was known as the &#8216;Flying Sikh&#8217;, died at a Chandigarh hospital on Friday after a month-long battle with Covid-19. The governor said that, in the departure of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}