{"id":9040,"date":"2022-10-28T07:31:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T02:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T05:23:55","slug":"infantry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/infantry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantry Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Infantry Day:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It aims to acknowledge the contributions of Infantry, the\u00a0<strong>largest fighting arm of the Indian Army.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This day is commemorated to honour the brave soldiers of the infantry who fought and laid down their lives during the\u00a0<strong>India-Pakistan war in 1947.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The operation was started on October 27, 1947; to protect the people of\u00a0<strong>Kashmir<\/strong>\u00a0from the Pakistani invaders after Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir had signed the Instrument of Accession of Kashmir to India.<\/li>\n<li>The Indian Air force carried out the task of flying the troops of 1st Sikh Regiment\u00a0into Srinagar on this day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1871200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infantry Day aims to acknowledge the contributions of Infantry, the largest fighting arm of Indian Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9040","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\/9040","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=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}