{"id":26353,"date":"2021-01-06T03:03:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/indias-supreme-court-gives-go-ahead-for-controversial-new-parliament-building"},"modified":"2021-01-06T03:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:03:50","slug":"indias-supreme-court-gives-go-ahead-for-controversial-new-parliament-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26353","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s supreme court gives go-ahead for controversial new parliament building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say Narendra Modi\u2019s $3bn redevelopment of Lutyen\u2019s central vista is \u2018expensive vanity project\u2019<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s supreme court has given approval for a new parliament building that critics have called an \u201cexpensive vanity project\u201d for the prime minister, Narendra Modi. <\/p>\n<p>Under the $3bn development project, Delhi\u2019s iconic central vista at the heart of the capital, home to its parliament and the famous India Gate monument, will be transformed by a new triangular parliament building, government and legislature offices and a new home for the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/indias-supreme-court-gives-go-ahead-for-controversial-new-parliament-building\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say Narendra Modi\u2019s $3bn redevelopment of Lutyen\u2019s central vista is \u2018expensive vanity project\u2019India\u2019s supreme court has given approval for a new parliament building that critics have called an \u201cexpensive vanity project\u201d for the prime minister, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26353\/revisions\/26355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}