{"id":5752,"date":"2021-04-09T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=5752"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:19:25","slug":"odishas-dutee-chand-to-be-honoured-with-chhattisgarh-veerni-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/04\/09\/odishas-dutee-chand-to-be-honoured-with-chhattisgarh-veerni-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha\u2019s Dutee Chand to be honoured with Chhattisgarh Veerni award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Dutee Chand, the Jakarta Asian Games silver-medalist in 100 and 200 metres, will receive Chhattisgarh Veerni Award, it was announced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the inaugural edition of the awards ceremony will be held virtually on April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The award, instituted by the Chhattisgarh state government, recognises contribution of Indian women in different fields, including sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">According to a press release of the Chhattisgarh government, Dutee has been shortlisted for the award for her contribution in sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In 2019, the Odisha sprinter became the first Indian woman to win gold medal at the World University Games held in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Dutee, who holds the national record of 11.22 secs in 100m, is aiming to achieve Tokyo Olympics qualification time of 11.15 secs in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Earlier this week, she was selected to represent the country in 4x100m relay team at next month&#8217;s World Relays in Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutee Chand, the Jakarta Asian Games silver-medalist in 100 and 200 metres, will receive Chhattisgarh Veerni Award, it was announced yesterday. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the inaugural edition of the awards ceremony will be held virtually on April 14. The award, instituted by the Chhattisgarh state government, recognises contribution of Indian women in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5754,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions\/5754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}