{"id":35392,"date":"2020-12-16T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=35392"},"modified":"2020-12-16T00:07:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:37:35","slug":"navys-senior-most-submariner-vice-admiral-srikant-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=35392","title":{"rendered":"Navy&#8217;s senior-most submariner vice admiral Srikant dies of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">PTI<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice Admiral Srikant died on Tuesday morning at the base hospital in New Delhi due to COVID-19-related complications, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/im.rediff.com\/news\/2020\/dec\/15srikant.jpg?w=670&amp;h=900\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Photograph: @CaptDKS\/Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The vice admiral, the navy&#8217;s senior-most submariner, was due to retire on December 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Expressing his condolences, defence minister Rajnath Singh tweeted, &#8220;Deeply pained at the untimely and sudden demise of Director General Seabird, Vice Admiral Srikant.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry of defence and the Indian Navy will always remember his stellar contributions and remarkable service to the nation, Singh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My deepest condolences to his bereaved family and friends. Om Shanti!&#8221; the minister stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Srikant was admitted at the base hospital in Delhi after he contracted COVID-19, said a junior Navy officer who had worked under him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, the vice admiral tested had negative for COVID-19 on Sunday morning, but developed breathing difficulties by evening, the officer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was shifted to ICU and was subsequently put on a ventilator,&#8221; the officer mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, he had held charge as Inspector General of Nuclear Safety and Commandant of the National Defence College, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">PTI<\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><\/span><div><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><\/span><\/div><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><\/span><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><\/span><div><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Vice Admiral Srikant died on Tuesday morning at the base hospital in New Delhi due to COVID-19-related complications, officials said. The vice admiral, the navy&#8217;s senior-most submariner, was due to retire on December 31. Expressing his condolences, defence minister Rajnath Singh tweeted, &#8220;Deeply pained at the untimely and sudden demise of Director General Seabird, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392","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=35392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}