{"id":287880,"date":"2019-08-20T06:31:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T06:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287880"},"modified":"2019-08-20T06:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T06:38:31","slug":"ties-with-bhutan-go-beyond-hydel-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ties-with-bhutan-go-beyond-hydel-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Ties with Bhutan go beyond hydel power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday conveyed to the Bhutanese leadership that India was keen to look beyond the hydropower sector \u2014 seen as the \u201cfundamental basis\u201d of bilateral relations \u2014 and cooperate in areas such as health care, education and science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>The message reflected New Delhi\u2019s keenness to accommodate Bhutan\u2019s priorities while chalking out the future of the ties.<\/p>\n<p>On Day One of Modi\u2019s two-day visit to Thimphu, the two countries signed 10 MoUs in areas such as aviation, information technology, space research and education.<\/p>\n<p>The day, described by the Indian foreign ministry as \u201cfulfilling\u201d, also witnessed Modi and Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering inaugurate five projects, including a hydropower plant and a ground station for the South Asian Satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday conveyed to the Bhutanese leadership that India was keen to look beyond the hydropower sector \u2014 seen as the \u201cfundamental basis\u201d of bilateral relations \u2014 and cooperate in areas such as health care, education and science and technology. The message reflected New Delhi\u2019s keenness to accommodate Bhutan\u2019s priorities while chalking out the future of the ties. On Day One of Modi\u2019s two-day visit to Thimphu, the two countries signed 10 MoUs in areas such as aviation, information technology, space research and education. The day, described by the Indian foreign ministry as \u201cfulfilling\u201d, also witnessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287880","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}