{"id":35681,"date":"2018-07-09T01:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=35681"},"modified":"2018-07-09T01:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T19:32:42","slug":"mm-jacob-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/07\/09\/mm-jacob-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"MM Jacob passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Jul 8:<\/strong> former Meghalaya governor MM Jacob passed away on Sunday at a private hospital in Pala near Kottayam in Kerala due to age-related ailments.<br \/>\nHe was 90.<br \/>\nJacob, a former union minister, had also served as deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha in the 80s.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday mourned the demise of f Jacob, saying he made notable contribution as a parliamentarian and a minister.<br \/>\n&#8220;Saddened by the demise of former Meghalaya Governor MM Jacob. He made notable contributions to the nation as a parliamentarian, minister and governor.<br \/>\n&#8220;He worked extensively for the development of Kerala. My thoughts are with his family and well-wishers in this sad hour,&#8221; the prime minister&#8217;s office tweeted, quoting the PM. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Jul 8: former Meghalaya governor MM Jacob passed away on Sunday at a private hospital in Pala near Kottayam in Kerala due to age-related ailments. He was 90. Jacob, a former union minister, had also served as deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha in the 80s. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday mourned [&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-35681","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\/35681","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=35681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}