{"id":9169,"date":"2020-07-09T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T09:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9169"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T09:46:33","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-tells-indian-counterpart-unable-to-lease-out-mattala-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mahinda-rajapaksa-tells-indian-counterpart-unable-to-lease-out-mattala-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa tells Indian counterpart: \u2019Unable to lease out Mattala Airport\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said he ruled out the possibility of leasing out the Mattala International Airport to India when he visited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said this while addressing a recent election rally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe Mattala Airport is located in my home district. I cannot lease it out. I told this to the Indian Prime Minister when I met him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The airport was constructed during the 2010\/2015 government, led by Mr. Rajapaksa when he was the President, with US$ 210 million Chinese loan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The previous government planned to develop the airport as a joint venture with India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said he ruled out the possibility of leasing out the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}