{"id":1387,"date":"2015-12-13T23:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2015-12-13T23:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T18:08:22","slug":"india-and-sri-lanka-plan-bridge-across","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/2015\/12\/india-and-sri-lanka-plan-bridge-across\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Sri Lanka plan bridge across"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clearfix _5x46\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"js_3n\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<div id=\"id_566db39a7df431d86865580\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>India and Sri Lanka, separated by the 19 mile wide Palk Straits in the Indian Ocean, plan to build a bridge across, to develop interconnectivity and transport. The bridge is being referred to as the &#8220;Hanuman Bridge&#8221;. The new Hanuman Bridge will improve trade between the two countries, as well as exchange of commodities. It will also ease the lives of many Indian exporters. A reasonable fraction of India&#8217;s exports are shipped from the port of Colombo, Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital, main<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ly due to capacity shortage and lack of infrastructure in Indian ports.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1388\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12360035_1693900477517736_8567866016477014220_n.png\" alt=\"12360035_1693900477517736_8567866016477014220_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12360035_1693900477517736_8567866016477014220_n.png 960w, http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12360035_1693900477517736_8567866016477014220_n-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Sri Lanka, separated by the 19 mile wide Palk Straits in the Indian Ocean, plan to build a bridge across, to develop interconnectivity and transport. The bridge is being referred to as the &#8220;Hanuman Bridge&#8221;. The new Hanuman&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}