{"id":431559,"date":"2021-08-23T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T05:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431559"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:55:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T06:25:36","slug":"india-expresses-disappointment-over-continued-ban-on-canada-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-expresses-disappointment-over-continued-ban-on-canada-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"India expresses disappointment over continued ban on Canada flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has written to the Canadian government expressing its \u201cdisappointment\u201d over the continuing ban of direct commercial flights. <\/p>\n<p>The ban was originally imposed on April 22 and was scheduled to expire on August 21, but on August 9, Transport Canada announced it had been further extended till September 21. The April decision had been predicated on concerns over the rising Covid-19 cases in India, particularly the spread of the Delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>In note verbales, or diplomatic communications, sent to Global Affairs Canada, the country\u2019s foreign ministry, India\u2019s high commission in Ottawa stated that the extension had \u201ccaused concern and anxiety\u201d among nationals of the two countries seeking to travel between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has written to the Canadian government expressing its \u201cdisappointment\u201d over the continuing ban of direct commercial flights. The ban was originally imposed on April 22 and was scheduled to expire on August 21, but on August 9, Transport Canada announced it had been further extended till September 21. The April decision had been predicated on concerns over the rising Covid-19 cases in India, particularly the spread of the Delta variant. In note verbales, or diplomatic communications, sent to Global Affairs Canada, the country\u2019s foreign ministry, India\u2019s high commission in Ottawa stated that the extension had \u201ccaused concern and anxiety\u201d [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431559","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=431559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}