{"id":185283,"date":"2022-02-27T00:14:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T18:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=185283"},"modified":"2022-02-27T00:14:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T18:44:03","slug":"sarma-speaks-to-jaishankar-over-evacuation-of-stranded-assamese-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/27\/sarma-speaks-to-jaishankar-over-evacuation-of-stranded-assamese-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarma speaks to Jaishankar over evacuation of stranded Assamese in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Feb 26 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said he has spoken to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar regarding evacuation of people from Assam stranded in war-torn Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Spoke to Hon EAM Sri @DrSJaishankar about safety of our students in #Ukraine. He informed me that MEA is working closely with Indian Embassy for expeditious evacuation of students &amp; residents including those from #Assam,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I wish to reassure all parents to have faith in GOI,&#8221; the chief minister added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the day, Jaishankar said on Twitter that Air India&#8217;s first evacuation flight with &#8220;219 Indian nationals has taken off from Romania&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Regarding evacuation of Indian nationals from Ukraine, we are making progress. Our teams are working on the ground round the clock. I am personally monitoring,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per estimates, more than 100 students from Assam are at present stuck in different parts of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After weeks of simmering crisis, Russians declared war on Ukraine on Thursday and troops started advancing towards the capital of the East European country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Feb 26 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said he has spoken to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar regarding evacuation of people from Assam stranded in war-torn Ukraine. &#8220;Spoke to Hon EAM Sri @DrSJaishankar about safety of our students in #Ukraine. He informed me that MEA is working closely with Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185283","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=185283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}