{"id":226700,"date":"2023-10-20T00:42:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=226700"},"modified":"2023-10-20T00:42:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:12:08","slug":"gadkari-inaugurates-418-feet-national-flag-at-attari-wagah-border-tallest-in-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/20\/gadkari-inaugurates-418-feet-national-flag-at-attari-wagah-border-tallest-in-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari inaugurates 418-feet national flag at Attari-Wagah border, tallest in country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amritsar, Oct 19 (PTI) Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday inaugurated a 418-feet national flag, the tallest in the country, at Attari in Punjab&#8217;s Amritsar district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Amritsar MP Gurjit Singh Aujla and senior Border Security Force officials accompanied Gadkari at the function.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Union minister said a surveillance system has been fitted atop the flag which will help the BSF troops keep track of the activities near the border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gadkari was on a Punjab visit to review the progress of the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway and the Amritsar bypass here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways also visited the Golden Temple and offered prayers there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking to media persons, he said, &#8220;I got the privilege to pay obeisance at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple here today, so I feel blessed. After paying obeisance, I prayed before the Almighty for the well-being, and good health of all Indians and the development of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the evening, Gadkari watched the retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border along with Mann. He also witnessed the flag-lowering ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India and Pakistan both lower their respective national flags simultaneously just before sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amritsar, Oct 19 (PTI) Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday inaugurated a 418-feet national flag, the tallest in the country, at Attari in Punjab&#8217;s Amritsar district. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Amritsar MP Gurjit Singh Aujla and senior Border Security Force officials accompanied Gadkari at the function. The Union minister said a surveillance system has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-226700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226700","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=226700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}