{"id":60342,"date":"2021-10-29T06:15:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T06:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=60342"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:29:41","slug":"indian-origin-anita-anand-appointed-as-national-defence-minister-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indian-origin-anita-anand-appointed-as-national-defence-minister-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-origin Anita Anand appointed as National Defence Minister of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anita Anand, a Canadian politician of Indian origin, was appointed as the defence minister of the country on October 26, 2021, in Justin Trudeau\u2019s Cabinet following a reshuffle, reported PTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is only the second women to be appointed as Canada\u2019s National Defence Minister, after&nbsp;Kim Campbell in the 1990s. The 54-year-old Anita Anand replaces long-time Indian-origin Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan. Anand is the second woman to serve as&nbsp;Canada\u2019s defence minister, reported&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>. She previously held the portfolio of the procurement minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Anand, a Canadian politician of Indian origin, was appointed as the defence minister of the country on October 26, 2021, in Justin Trudeau\u2019s Cabinet following a reshuffle, reported PTI. She is only the second women to be appointed as Canada\u2019s National Defence Minister, after&nbsp;Kim Campbell in the 1990s. The 54-year-old Anita Anand replaces long-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":60343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[4933,2217,2216],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-60342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-appointments-current-affairs","tag-canada","tag-national-defence-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60342","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\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60344,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60342\/revisions\/60344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60342"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=60342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}