{"id":596524,"date":"2023-08-08T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T04:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=596524"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T05:31:05","slug":"spending-on-border-infrastructure-up-4-fold-since-2014-jaishankar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spending-on-border-infrastructure-up-4-fold-since-2014-jaishankar\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending on border infrastructure up 4 fold since 2014: Jaishankar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s focus on improving infrastructure in the border areas with China since 2014 had meant more contestations and counter-patrolling with the Indian military now able to deploy and tackle efficiently any Chinese movement, foreign minister S Jaishankar said Monday. The minister said there had been a fourfold increase in India\u2019s spending on border infrastructure since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, ahead of a possible bilateral meeting between PM Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping later this month, Jaishankar also underlined the fact that the 2 sides were still talking to resolve the military standoff in the remaining areas in eastern Ladakh and had managed to find &#8220;some solution&#8221; to 5-6 tense friction points including Galwan, Gogra Hot Springs and Pangong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s focus on improving infrastructure in the border areas with China since 2014 had meant more contestations and counter-patrolling with the Indian military now able to deploy and tackle efficiently any Chinese movement, foreign minister S Jaishankar said Monday. The minister said there had been a fourfold increase in India\u2019s spending on border infrastructure since 2014. Significantly, ahead of a possible bilateral meeting between PM Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping later this month, Jaishankar also underlined the fact that the 2 sides were still talking to resolve the military standoff in the remaining areas in eastern Ladakh [&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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596524","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=596524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}