{"id":17099,"date":"2016-10-22T09:38:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T09:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=17099"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T09:38:12","slug":"police-commemoration-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/police-commemoration-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Commemoration Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Question: Police Commemoration Day is observed on-<br \/>\n(a) 22 October<br \/>\n(b) 21 October<br \/>\n(c) 23 October<br \/>\n(d) 19 October<br \/>\n<strong>Ans (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 21 October 2016 Police Commemoration Day was observed across the country.<\/li>\n<li>The day commemorates the sacrifices of ten policemen while defending our borders with China in 1959.<\/li>\n<li>On 21st October 1959 Chinese Army personnel were seen on a hillock who opened fire and threw grenades at the party led by Shri Karam Singh in which most personnel were injured. Ten of them died, seven were taken prisoners by the Chinese and the remaining managed to escape.<\/li>\n<li>The Annual Conference of Inspectors General of Police of States and Union Territories held in January 1960 decided that October 21 would henceforth be observed as \u2018Commemoration Day\u2019 in all Police Lines throughout India.<\/li>\n<li>Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh paid homage at the Police Memorial Ground, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>Since 1961, more than 33,000 police personnel have sacrificed their lives for security of the nation and service to the society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151831\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151831<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Police Commemoration Day is observed on- (a) 22 October (b) 21 October (c) 23 October (d) 19 October Ans (b) Related facts: On 21 October 2016 Police Commemoration Day was observed across the country. The day commemorates the sacrifices of ten policemen while defending our borders with China in 1959. On 21st October 1959 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[2342,2340],"class_list":["post-17099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ydw-snews","tag-day-week","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}