{"id":116725,"date":"2018-03-24T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T04:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=116725"},"modified":"2018-03-24T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T04:54:01","slug":"german-prez-visits-sarnath-takes-part-ganga-aarti-pti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=116725","title":{"rendered":"German Prez visits Sarnath; takes part in Ganga Aarti | PTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German\u00a0President\u00a0Frank-Walter Steinmeier\u00a0today arrived in\u00a0Varanasi\u00a0where he visited the\u00a0Buddhist pilgrimage\u00a0site\u00a0Sarnath\u00a0and participated in the Ganga &#8216;Aarti&#8217; and also visited the Banaras Hindu Universityhere.<\/p>\n<p>At Sarnath, he offered prayers at the\u00a0Buddhist temple\u00a0and also visited the museum there.<\/p>\n<p>He then visited the\u00a0Banaras Hindu University\u00a0where he interacted with students and teachersfor over half an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the evening he enjoyed a boat ride from Assi to Dashashwamedh ghat and also participated in the Ganga aarti. At the Dashashwamedh ghats students also performed before him.<\/p>\n<p>Steinmeier was accorded a warm welcome on his arrival today afternoon at the\u00a0Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport\u00a0at Babatpur hereby a special plane from\u00a0New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>School students with flags of\u00a0Germany\u00a0and\u00a0India\u00a0waved as the visiting president&#8217;s cavalcade passed through various places across the city.<\/p>\n<p id=\"auto_disclaimer\">(This story has not been edited by Global Press staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German\u00a0President\u00a0Frank-Walter Steinmeier\u00a0today arrived in\u00a0Varanasi\u00a0where he visited the\u00a0Buddhist pilgrimage\u00a0site\u00a0Sarnath\u00a0and participated in the Ganga &#8216;Aarti&#8217; and also visited the Banaras Hindu Universityhere. At Sarnath, he offered prayers at the\u00a0Buddhist temple\u00a0and also visited the museum there. He then visited the\u00a0Banaras Hindu University\u00a0where he interacted with students and teachersfor over half an hour. Later in the evening he enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}