{"id":213106,"date":"2023-03-19T01:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T19:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=213106"},"modified":"2023-03-19T01:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T19:38:05","slug":"army-chief-pays-homage-to-lt-col-vvb-reddy-in-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/army-chief-pays-homage-to-lt-col-vvb-reddy-in-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Army chief pays homage to Lt Col VVB Reddy in Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HYDERABAD, 18 Mar:<\/strong> Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Saturday paid homage to Lt Col VVB Reddy, who was among the two pilots killed when a Cheetah helicopter of the army crashed in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The army chief paid homage to Lt Col Reddy at the latter&#8217;s residence in Malkajgiri here, according to a defence release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mortal remains of Lt Col Reddy arrived at the Begumpet Air Force station here on Friday night. Homage was paid to Lt Col Reddy with full military honours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body was then taken to his residence in Malkajgiri here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reddy had passed out of the National Defence Academy and served in the army for about 20 years, family sources said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is survived by his wife and two daughters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reddy was a native of Bommala Ramaram village in Yadadri-Bhongir district of Telangana, family sources said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reddy and his co-pilot, Maj Jayanth A, were killed when their helicopter crashed near Mandala in West Kameng district of Arunachal on Thursday morning. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD, 18 Mar: Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Saturday paid homage to Lt Col VVB Reddy, who was among the two pilots killed when a Cheetah helicopter of the army crashed in Arunachal Pradesh. The army chief paid homage to Lt Col Reddy at the latter&#8217;s residence in Malkajgiri here, according to a defence [&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-213106","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\/213106","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=213106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}