{"id":36780,"date":"2017-12-20T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=36780"},"modified":"2017-12-20T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:40:16","slug":"exercise-ekuverin-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/exercise-ekuverin-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise EKUVERIN- 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Where did the eighth joint military exercise &#8216;Ekuverin 2017&#8217; is being organised between India and Maldives recently?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Trivandrum, Kerala<br \/>\n(b) Kadhdhoo Lamu Atoll, Maldives<br \/>\n(c) Belagavi, Karnataka<br \/>\n(d) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>During 15-28 December, 2017, the eighth joint military exercise between India and Maldives &#8216;EKUVERIN-2017&#8217; began in Belagavi Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li>This 14 day practice is the annual joint exercise between the Indian Army and the Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF).<\/li>\n<li>Exercise is being organized alternatively in India and Maldives with participation of an Infantry platoon from each side.<\/li>\n<li>The objectives of the exercise are to enhance defence cooperation and interoperability between the army of both countries with emphasis on Counter Insurgency and Counter Terrorist operations under UN mandate.<\/li>\n<li>In this exercise, the Indian Army led by the soldiers of the Gorkha Rifles battalion and the Maldives Army led by the Maldives National Defense Force personnel.<\/li>\n<li>The seventh edition of this exercise was organized in Kadhdhoo, Lamu Atoll, Maldives in 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/joint-military-exercises-help-in-anti-terror-operations\/article21820304.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/joint-military-exercises-help-in-anti-terror-operations\/article21820304.ece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/exercise-ekuverin-commences-in-belagavi201712160610030004\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/exercise-ekuverin-commences-in-belagavi201712160610030004\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Where did the eighth joint military exercise &#8216;Ekuverin 2017&#8217; is being organised between India and Maldives recently? (a) Trivandrum, Kerala (b) Kadhdhoo Lamu Atoll, Maldives (c) Belagavi, Karnataka (d) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Answer: (c) Related facts: During 15-28 December, 2017, the eighth joint military exercise between India and Maldives &#8216;EKUVERIN-2017&#8217; began in Belagavi Karnataka. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":36682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-36780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36780","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36780\/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\/36682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36780"}],"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=36780"},{"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=36780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}