{"id":29148,"date":"2020-07-02T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29148"},"modified":"2020-07-02T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:29:00","slug":"rajnaths-planned-visit-to-ladakh-rescheduled-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29148","title":{"rendered":"Rajnath&#8217;s planned visit to Ladakh rescheduled: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11609932_Rajnath-s-planned-visit-to-Ladakh-rescheduled--Sources.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh&#8217;s planned visit to Ladakh on Friday has been rescheduled, official sources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not immediately known why the visit has been postponed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sources said Singh will &#8220;soon&#8221; undertake the visit to Ladakh to take stock of India&#8217;s military preparedness in the region where Indian and Chinese troops are locked in a seven-week bitter border standoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defence minister was to be accompanied by Chief of Army Staff Gen MM Naravane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army Chief visited Ladakh on June 23 and 24 during which he held a series of meetings with senior Army officials and visited various forward areas in eastern Ladakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Indian and Chinese armies are locked in a bitter standoff in multiple locations in eastern Ladakh for the last seven weeks. The tension escalated manifold after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a violent clash in Galwan Valley on June 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese side also suffered casualties but it is yet to give out the details.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh&#8217;s planned visit to Ladakh on Friday has been rescheduled, official sources said on Thursday. It was not immediately known why the visit has been postponed. The sources said Singh will &#8220;soon&#8221; undertake the visit to Ladakh to take stock of India&#8217;s military preparedness in the region where Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}