{"id":10606,"date":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/02\/india-to-help-restore-hindu-temple-in-lanka\/"},"modified":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","slug":"india-to-help-restore-hindu-temple-in-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/02\/india-to-help-restore-hindu-temple-in-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"India To Help Restore Hindu Temple In Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/news\/south-asia\/india-to-help-restoration-of-hindu-temple-in-lanka_737125.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, October 17, 2011 (zeenews.india.com): India agreed Sunday to provide nearly USD 3 million to help restore the Thirukatheeswaram temple. <\/p>\n<p>This temple, located in the northeastern district of Mannar, is one of the holiest Hindu shrines in Sri Lanka and an important symbol of the island&#8217;s Tamil cultural heritage. <\/p>\n<p>A memorandum of understanding was signed between India and Sri Lanka today under which New Delhi would provide assistance worth 326 million Lankan rupees. Indian officials said the temple&#8217;s restoration was one of the many projects undertaken by the Indian government to restore normalcy in the former conflict zones. <\/p>\n<p>The restoration work is to be undertaken with the assistance of Archaeological Survey of India and the College of Architecture and Sculpture, Indian High Commission said in a statement here.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, October 17, 2011 (zeenews.india.com): India agreed Sunday to provide nearly USD 3 million to help restore,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}