{"id":7967,"date":"2016-01-18T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2016-01-18T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:20:54","slug":"68th-army-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/68th-army-day\/","title":{"rendered":"68th Army Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which Day is celebrated as Army Day in India?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) 15 January<br \/>\n(b) 14 January<br \/>\n(c) 13 January<br \/>\n(d) 12 January<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ans (a)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>India on 15 January 2016 celebrated the 68th Army Day.<\/li>\n<li>On this day, 69 years ago, Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal) K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Army of a newly formed India.<\/li>\n<li>He took over from General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander-in-Chief of India on 15 January 1949.<\/li>\n<li>To mark the occasion, General Dalbir Singh, Chief of the Army Staff reviewed the Parade at Army Parade Ground, Delhi Cantonment.<\/li>\n<li>He also awarded fifteen Sena Medals (including five posthumously) for individual acts of Gallantry and thirteen COAS Unit Citations for commendable performance of their respective units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/erelease.aspx\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/erelease.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/in-pictures-the-indian-army-celebrating-army-day\/article8112724.ece#im-image-0\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/in-pictures-the-indian-army-celebrating-army-day\/article8112724.ece#im-image-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indianarmy.nic.in\/Site\/FormTemplete\/frmTempSimple.aspx?MnId=ZCxdwpLZk6WmTUvDsZIqNA==&amp;ParentID=482DfX+3oad1CMniVjeI3w==\">http:\/\/indianarmy.nic.in\/Site\/FormTemplete\/frmTempSimple.aspx?MnId=ZCxdwpLZk6WmTUvDsZIqNA==&amp;ParentID=482DfX+3oad1CMniVjeI3w==<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which Day is celebrated as Army Day in India? (a) 15 January (b) 14 January (c) 13 January (d) 12 January Ans (a) Related facts: India on 15 January 2016 celebrated the 68th Army Day. On this day, 69 years ago, Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal) K. M. Cariappa took over as the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","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=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/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\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"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=7967"},{"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=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}