{"id":260359,"date":"2019-02-21T06:52:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=260359"},"modified":"2019-02-21T06:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:52:58","slug":"india-woos-investors-in-defence-manufacturing-as-aero-india-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-woos-investors-in-defence-manufacturing-as-aero-india-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"India woos investors in defence manufacturing as Aero India begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India on Wednesday wooed investors to capitalise on the ecosystem prevailing in the aerospace and other sectors and pitched for joint venture partnerships, saying it offered a big market in Defence manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made the pitch for investors seeking to give a big push for the &#8216;Make in India&#8217; initiative at Asia&#8217;s premier air show which began at the Yelahanka air base, north of Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p>Eyeing India&#8217;s multi-billion dollar market, global defence majors are showcasing technologies and products including helicopters, fighter jets and transport aircraft at the five-day mega event. The event began on a sombre note, a day after two aircraft of Surya Kiran, Indian Air Force (IAF)&#8217;s aerobatics team, collided mid-air, killing a pilot and injuring two others who ejected to safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India on Wednesday wooed investors to capitalise on the ecosystem prevailing in the aerospace and other sectors and pitched for joint venture partnerships, saying it offered a big market in Defence manufacturing. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made the pitch for investors seeking to give a big push for the &#8216;Make in India&#8217; initiative at Asia&#8217;s premier air show which began at the Yelahanka air base, north of Bengaluru. Eyeing India&#8217;s multi-billion dollar market, global defence majors are showcasing technologies and products including helicopters, fighter jets and transport aircraft at the five-day mega event. The event began on a sombre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}