{"id":292657,"date":"2019-09-19T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292657"},"modified":"2019-09-19T06:30:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:30:14","slug":"union-oil-minister-bats-for-direct-flight-to-dubai-from-odisha-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/union-oil-minister-bats-for-direct-flight-to-dubai-from-odisha-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Union oil minister bats for direct flight to Dubai from Odisha capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged his colleague civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri to operate a direct flight from Bhubaneswar to Dubai. Pradhan said there are 15,000 Odias working in UAE and they have to travel by air taking an indirect route as there is no direct flight to the destination.<br \/>\n\u201cI am made to understand that there are more than 15,000 Odia people residing in different parts of UAE, who are forced to take indirect flight. I also understand Odia society in UAE had a meeting with general manager, Air India (middle-east) and Africa regarding viability of a direct flight between Bhubaneswar and Dubai based on favourable traffic data between the two destinations,\u201d Pradhan said in the letter.<br \/>\nHe has also said that Bhubaneswar is a hub of education, tourism, health care and education exchange programmes. \u201cKeeping in mind all these factors, I request your intervention for launching a direct flight between Bhubaneswar and Dubai,\u201d he has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged his colleague civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri to operate a direct flight from Bhubaneswar to Dubai. Pradhan said there are 15,000 Odias working in UAE and they have to travel by air taking an indirect route as there is no direct flight to the destination. \u201cI am made to understand that there are more than 15,000 Odia people residing in different parts of UAE, who are forced to take indirect flight. I also understand Odia society in UAE had a meeting with general manager, Air India (middle-east) and Africa regarding viability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292657","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}