{"id":7142,"date":"2019-08-15T16:44:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T07:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/15\/narendra-modi-defends-indias-decision-to-end-kashmir-special-status"},"modified":"2019-08-15T22:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:43:39","slug":"narendra-modi-defends-indias-decision-to-end-kashmirs-special-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7142","title":{"rendered":"India independence day celebration takes place under strict security in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drones and helicopters fly above heavily fortified cricket stadium as Indian flag unfurled<\/p>\n<p>A ceremony in Kashmir marking India\u2019s independence day was held under strict security inside a heavily fortified cricket stadium, while residents remained under curfew.<\/p>\n<p>Drones and helicopters flew overhead as Satya Pal Malik, the Jammu and Kashmir governor, unfurled an Indian flag on Thursday. The ceremony is usually watched by Kashmiri politicians, however many are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/kashmir-leaders-placed-under-arrest-amid-security-crackdown\">reportedly under house arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/15\/narendra-modi-defends-indias-decision-to-end-kashmir-special-status\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones and helicopters fly above heavily fortified cricket stadium as Indian flag unfurledA ceremony in Kashmir marking India\u2019s independence day was held under strict security inside a heavily fortified cricket stadium, while residents remained under c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"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":[62,432,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","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\/7142","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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7206,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}