{"id":570,"date":"2018-10-05T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T09:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ameforum.net\/2018\/10\/05\/india-plans-to-build-bridge-to-connect-to-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:40:14","slug":"india-plans-to-build-bridge-to-connect-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/india-plans-to-build-bridge-to-connect-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"India plans to build bridge to connect to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12-Apr-16<\/p>\n<p>India has said that it is considering inking a pact with Sri Lanka to build a bridge connecting the two neighbouring countries, reports China\u2019s Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project is under consideration, it is under discussion. But nothing has been finalised,\u201d Indian Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari told the media in the national capital yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that preliminary talks on the project have been held with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sri Lankan side is interested in the project,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed project, the bridge could be built between Rameshwaram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, and the issue has also been discussed in the Sri Lankan Parliament.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12-Apr-16 India has said that it is considering inking a pact with Sri Lanka to build a bridge connecting the two neighbouring countries, reports China\u2019s Xinhua news agency. \u201cThe project is under consideration, it is under discussion. But nothing has been finalised,\u201d Indian Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari told the media in &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,1],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-issues","category-uncategorized","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}