{"id":38503,"date":"2018-01-16T11:16:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T11:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=38503"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T11:16:29","slug":"70th-indian-army-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/70th-indian-army-day\/","title":{"rendered":"70th Indian Army Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: 70<sup>th<\/sup> Indian Army Day was celebrated across the country on January 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018. Who was the first commander of the Indian Army post-Independence?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) General Sam\u00a0Manekshaw<br \/>\n(b) General K.M. Cariappa<br \/>\n(c)\u00a0 General Jacob Hassan<br \/>\n(d) General Bipin Chandra Joshi<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (b)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated Facts:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On January 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018, 70th \u2018Indian Army Day &#8216;was celebrated across the country.<\/li>\n<li>Day is celebrated on January 15 very years in recognition of Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal) KM Cariappa taking over as the first Commander-in Chief of Indian Army.<\/li>\n<li>Significantly, he took over the position of the Commander-in Chief from Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander this day in 1949.<\/li>\n<li>On this occasion Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat inspects the guard of honour during the Army Day Parade in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.india.com\/festivals-events\/70th-army-day-2018-significance-about-the-day-honoring-indian-army-2843970\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.india.com\/festivals-events\/70th-army-day-2018-significance-about-the-day-honoring-indian-army-2843970\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: 70th Indian Army Day was celebrated across the country on January 15th, 2018. Who was the first commander of the Indian Army post-Independence? (a) General Sam\u00a0Manekshaw (b) General K.M. Cariappa (c)\u00a0 General Jacob Hassan (d) General Bipin Chandra Joshi Answer: (b)\u00a0 Related Facts:\u00a0 On January 15th, 2018, 70th \u2018Indian Army Day &#8216;was celebrated across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[2342,2340],"class_list":["post-38503","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\/38503","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38503\/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\/38468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38503"}],"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=38503"},{"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=38503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}