{"id":27482,"date":"2020-09-01T05:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=27482"},"modified":"2020-09-01T05:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:36:04","slug":"former-president-pranab-mukherjee-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/former-president-pranab-mukherjee-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former President Pranab Mukherjee passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former President Pranab Mukherjee has passed away on 31 August after prolonged illness. He was 84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pranab Mukherjee served as the 13th President of India from July 25, 2012 to 25 July 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before becoming the President, Mukherjee served at different times as Defence, Commerce, Foreign, and Finance Minister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was elected to Rajya Sabha five times and twice to Lok Sabha. In 2019, Pranab Mukherjee was awarded India\u2019s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Pranab Mukherjee has passed away on 31 August after prolonged illness. He was 84. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Pranab Mukherjee served as the 13th President of India from July 25, 2012 to 25 July 2017. Before becoming the President, Mukherjee served at different times as Defence, Commerce, Foreign, and Finance Minister. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":27483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-27482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27484,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions\/27484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27482"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=27482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}