{"id":502961,"date":"2024-02-25T15:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T09:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=502961"},"modified":"2024-02-25T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T10:03:35","slug":"modi-dwarka-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/modi-dwarka-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi goes underwater in deep sea, offers prayer in Dwarka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday went scuba diving in the deep sea off the Arabian Sea coast at Panchkui beach in Gujarat. He also offered prayers at the site where the ancient city of Dwarka is believed to have submerged after Lord Krishna&#8217;s demise. The ancient city was closely linked with Lord Krishna and was known for its grandeur and prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To pray in the city of Dwarka, which is immersed in the waters, was a very divine experience, PM Modi said in a post on X. Sharing the pictures, PM Modi further said that he felt connected to an ancient era of spiritual grandeur and timeless devotion. May Bhagwan Shri Krishna bless us all, PM Modi wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To pray in the city of Dwarka, which is immersed in the waters, was a very divine experience. I felt connected to an ancient era of spiritual grandeur and timeless devotion. May Bhagwan Shri Krishna bless us all. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yUO9DJnYWo\">pic.twitter.com\/yUO9DJnYWo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1761663670373769451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today, PM Modi inaugurated the nation&#8217;s longest cable-stayed bridge in Dwarka, Gujarat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sudarshan Setu, which connects Okha to the island of Beyt Dwarka, was constructed at the cost of Rs 979 crore. Around 2.3-kilometer-long bridge was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi in October 2017, with the statement that it will connect the old and modern Dwarka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four-lane, 27.20-meter-wide bridge has 2.50-meter-wide footpaths\u00a0on each side. The unique design of Sudarshan Setu has a pathway flanked on both sides by pictures of Lord Krishna and verses from the Bhagavad Gita. Solar panels have also been installed on the higher sections of the footpath, producing one megawatt of electricity, as per the official announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM\u00a0Modi will also\u00a0lay the foundation stone\u00a0for several projects, including the construction of the regional scientific centre in Jamnagar, the installation of a Flue Gas Desulphurization system at the Sikka Thermal Power Station in Jamnagar, and the expansion of the Dhoraji-Jamkandorna-Kalavad portion of NH-927D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Gujarat will be inaugurated in Rajkot this afternoon by the prime minister. The Center has spent Rs 6,300 crore building the five super-speciality hospitals, one of which is located in Rajkot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient city was closely linked with Lord Krishna and was known for its grandeur and prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":502964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"PM Modi goes underwater in deep sea, offers prayer in Dwarka","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[61898,165,98177],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/25151254\/GHKvuA2XsAAAUAH.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502961"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=502961"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=502961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->