{"id":32508,"date":"2020-10-27T06:27:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T06:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=32508"},"modified":"2020-10-27T06:27:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T06:27:33","slug":"arunachal-erected-war-memorial-for-martyr-of-1962-india-china-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/arunachal-erected-war-memorial-for-martyr-of-1962-india-china-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal erected war memorial for martyr of 1962 India-China war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian Army has constructed a War Memorial in Arunachal Pradesh named after Subedar Joginder Singh who was martyred in the 1962 India-China war.<\/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>Subedar Joginder Singh, 1st Battalion the Sikh Regt received the highest gallantry award, Param Vir Chakra in the Eastern Theatre during the 1962 Sino- India War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian Army organised the Inauguration Ceremony of Joginder War Memorial at Bum La on 23 October 2020 coinciding with the day on which the Battle of Tongpen La ( Bum La ) took place in 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bum La is a border pass between Cona County (in Tibet) and Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh (India).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is 37 km away from the town of Tawang and 43 km from the town of Cona (Tsona Dzong).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pass currently serves as a trading point between Tawang and Tibet. It is also an agreed Border Personnel Meeting point for the security forces of China and India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Army has constructed a War Memorial in Arunachal Pradesh named after Subedar Joginder Singh who was martyred in the 1962 India-China war. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Subedar Joginder Singh, 1st Battalion the Sikh Regt received the highest gallantry award, Param Vir Chakra in the Eastern Theatre during the 1962 Sino- India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":32509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[1283],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-32508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2020","tag-arunachal-pradesh-government-schemes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508","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=32508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32510,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions\/32510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32508"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=32508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}