{"id":52748,"date":"2018-11-28T01:45:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=52748"},"modified":"2018-11-28T01:45:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:15:55","slug":"sida-banor-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/28\/sida-banor-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Sida Banor passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Nov 27:<\/strong> Legendary singer Sida Banor is no more. He passed away in Naharlagun on Tuesday, aged 58.<br \/>\nBanor leaves behind three sons and a daughter. His wife had passed away recently. His last rites will be held in Raga on 29 November.<br \/>\nThe renowned singer was awarded a gold medal recently by the government of Arunachal Pradesh. Born on 6 May, 1960, in Godak village in the then Lower Subansiri district, Banor started singing in 1974, when he was still a young boy.<br \/>\nHis songs &#8216;Oh, ho dangerous&#8217; and &#8216;My dear friend&#8217; became instantly popular across the state and made him a household name.<br \/>\nThe Raga Area Employees&#8217; Welfare Association has mourned the death of the singer.<br \/>\n&#8220;His death is a great loss for us,&#8221; said the association&#8217;s general secretary, Dr Kapu Sopin.<br \/>\nSeveral other organizations and individuals have also expressed sadness over the passing away of Banor.<br \/>\nRaga MLA Tamar Murtem termed his death a loss to Kamle district, and said his songs would continue to entertain the people of the state.<br \/>\nThe state BJP&#8217;s political affairs committee convenor Talo Mugli, the Film Federation of Arunachal, the Nyishi Art and Culture Welfare Society, and the Arunachal Artiste Forum have all mourned Banor&#8217;s demise and expressed condolences to the bereaved family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Nov 27: Legendary singer Sida Banor is no more. He passed away in Naharlagun on Tuesday, aged 58. Banor leaves behind three sons and a daughter. His wife had passed away recently. His last rites will be held in Raga on 29 November. The renowned singer was awarded a gold medal recently by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52748","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=52748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}