{"id":295538,"date":"2019-10-09T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295538"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:13:32","slug":"defence-minister-rajnath-singh-receives-iafs-first-rafale-fighter-jet-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/defence-minister-rajnath-singh-receives-iafs-first-rafale-fighter-jet-from-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister Rajnath Singh receives IAF\u2019s first Rafale fighter jet from France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday that the French-made Rafale combat jet will boost India\u2019s air dominance exponentially, as he was formally handed the delivery of the first of 36 such aircraft acquired by the Indian government at a ceremony here.<\/p>\n<p>Singh attended the handover ceremony along with his French counterpart Florence Parly at aircraft maker Dassault Aviation facility in Merignac, southwestern France.<\/p>\n<p>The minister performed a brief Shastra Puja on the new aircraft as he emblazoned it with an \u2018Om\u2019 tilak and laid flowers and a coconut, just before he was to take off in it for a sortie in the newly-acquired two-seater jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday that the French-made Rafale combat jet will boost India\u2019s air dominance exponentially, as he was formally handed the delivery of the first of 36 such aircraft acquired by the Indian government at a ceremony here. Singh attended the handover ceremony along with his French counterpart Florence Parly at aircraft maker Dassault Aviation facility in Merignac, southwestern France. The minister performed a brief Shastra Puja on the new aircraft as he emblazoned it with an \u2018Om\u2019 tilak and laid flowers and a coconut, just before he was to take off in it for a [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295538","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=295538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}