{"id":5294,"date":"2019-08-24T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T07:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2019-08-24T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T07:40:21","slug":"uae-to-confer-pm-modi-with-highest-civilian-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/uae-to-confer-pm-modi-with-highest-civilian-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE to Confer PM Modi with Highest Civilian Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Narendra Modi would be conferred with the highest civilian award by the United Arab Emirates as his visit to the Islamic nation draws to a close on 24 August. PM Modi reached Abu Dhabi, UAE on the second leg of his three-nation visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development comes at a time when Pakistan is struggling\nto get Muslim countries on board in its persistent criticism of New Delhi\u2019s\nmove to scrap the special status of the Jammu and Kashmir region and\nbifurcating into two Union Territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAE will Award PM Modi with the Order of Zayed, which was conferred earlier in April 2019 in recognition of his distinguished leadership for giving a big boost to bilateral relations between the two countries, an MEA statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Looking forward to holding talks with His Highness\nCrown Prince@MohamedBinZayed Aand discussing the full range of friendship\nbetween India and UAE. Deepening economic relations will also be on the agenda\nduring this visit,&#8221; the Prime Minister tweeted on arrival from France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, UAE&#8217;s ambassador to India, Ahmad Al Banna, had said\nthat his country found nothing wrong in the Modi government\u2019s decision to\nabrogate Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and reducing the state of Jammu\nand Kashmir to two UTs. Calling the move a \u201cunique incident\u201d, he said that UAE\nviews it as a measure aimed at reducing regional disparities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modi is in Abu Dhabi to meet Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed\nbin Zayed Al Nahyan, to discuss bilateral, regional and international matters\nof mutual interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He would have an Interaction with the NRI business community, which would be followed by the official launch of the RuPay Card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ceremonial welcome would be held at the Presidential\nPalace, after which delegation-level talks would be held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister would pay a state visit to the Kingdom of\nBahrain from August 24-25 in the first-ever Prime Ministerial visit from India\nto the Gulf monarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi would be conferred with the highest civilian award by the United Arab Emirates as his visit to the Islamic nation draws to a close on 24 August. PM Modi reached Abu Dhabi, UAE on the second leg of his three-nation visit. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The development comes at a time when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[588],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-highest-civilian-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}