{"id":271070,"date":"2025-09-22T01:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=271070"},"modified":"2025-09-22T01:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:44:43","slug":"khandu-pays-homage-to-zubeen-garg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/khandu-pays-homage-to-zubeen-garg\/","title":{"rendered":"Khandu pays homage to Zubeen Garg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 21 Sep:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Sunday paid homage to singer Zubeen Garg, and said his music inspired millions and became a source of pride for the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Garg died in Singapore on Friday while swimming in the sea without a life jacket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;United in tribute, a two-minute silence was observed with the NDA legislators, remembering Shri Zubeen Garg. From Assam to the farthest corners of the Northeast, his music inspired millions and became a source of pride for the country,&#8221; Khandu said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our prayers for his soul&#8217;s peace accompanied this silence, honouring the joy and unity his music brought to countless lives,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Draped in a traditional Assamese &#8216;gamosa&#8217;, Garg&#8217;s mortal remains arrived in a glass casket at the Sarusajai stadium in Guwahati on Sunday afternoon. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 21 Sep: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Sunday paid homage to singer Zubeen Garg, and said his music inspired millions and became a source of pride for the country. Garg died in Singapore on Friday while swimming in the sea without a life jacket. &#8220;United in tribute, a two-minute silence was observed with the [&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-271070","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\/271070","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=271070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}