{"id":44828,"date":"2018-01-16T23:16:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44828"},"modified":"2018-01-16T23:16:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T18:16:11","slug":"india-will-buy-160000-guns-worth-553-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44828","title":{"rendered":"India will buy 160,000 guns worth $553 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Jan. 16 (TNS):\u00a0<\/strong>India will buy more than 160,000 guns worth $553 million for troops on its disputed, high-altitude borders, Indian defence ministry said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The defence acquisition council cleared the purchase of 72,400 assault rifles and 93,895 carbines for 35 billion rupees ($553 million) in a meeting chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.<\/p>\n<p>The weapons will be bought to \u201cenable the defence forces to meet their immediate requirement for the troops deployed on the borders,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi has signed several big-ticket defence deals since Prime Minister Narendra Modi stormed to power in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>India \u2014 the world\u2019s largest defence importer \u2014 has been investing tens of billions in updating its Soviet-era military hardware to counter long-standing territorial disputes with its nuclear-armed neighbours China and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan. 16 (TNS):\u00a0India will buy more than 160,000 guns worth $553 million for troops on its disputed, high-altitude borders, Indian defence ministry said Tuesday. The defence acquisition council cleared the purchase of 72,400 assault rifles and 93,895 carbines for 35 billion rupees ($553 million) in a meeting chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,736],"tags":[589,737],"class_list":["post-44828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-delhi","tag-national","tag-new-delhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44830,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44828\/revisions\/44830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}