{"id":5200,"date":"2022-12-16T03:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2025-03-27T04:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:22:28","slug":"what-is-surya-kiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-surya-kiran\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u201cSurya Kiran\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the Exercise \u2018Surya Kiran\u2019:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an Indo-Nepal joint army training exercise.<\/li>\n<li>It is conducted annually between India and Nepal with the aim to enhance interoperability in jungle warfare and counter-terrorism operations in mountainous terrain and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) under UN mandate.<\/li>\n<li>Nepal Army soldiers of Shree Bhawani Baksh Battalion and Indian Army soldiers from the 5 GR are participating in the exercise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) When did the first Surya Kiran Exercise start?<\/h3>\n<p>The first Indo-Nepal joint army training exercise known as Surya Kiran started in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=SURYA-KIRAN%3a-16th-Edition-of-Indo-Nepal-joint-army-training-exercise-begins&amp;id=452437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surya Kiran is an Indo-Nepal joint army training exercise conducted annually to enhance interoperability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}