{"id":6877,"date":"2019-04-07T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T10:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.themespiral.com\/freenews\/?p=47"},"modified":"2019-04-07T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T10:03:55","slug":"volcanic-eruptions-reduce-flow-of-major-rivers-new-study-shows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/volcanic-eruptions-reduce-flow-of-major-rivers-new-study-shows-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Renames Karimganj District, It Is Now Called"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guwahati: The Assam government on Tuesday decided to change the name of Karimganj district in the Barak Valley to Sribhumi, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.<br \/>The decision was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet, Sarma said at a press conference here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over 100 years ago, Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore had described modern-day Karimganj district as Sribhumi &#8211; the land of Maa Lakshmi. Today, the Assam cabinet has fulfilled this long-standing demand of our people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The move to rename the district will reflect the expectations and aspirations of the people of the district, Sarma said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to change names that do not have any dictionary reference or any other historical evidence. We have been doing this for a long time and it is a continuous process,&#8221; the CM said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati: The Assam government on Tuesday decided to change the name of Karimganj district in the Barak Valley to Sribhumi, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.The decision was taken at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/volcanic-eruptions-reduce-flow-of-major-rivers-new-study-shows-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}