{"id":14543,"date":"2016-08-04T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=14540&amp;preview_id=14540"},"modified":"2016-08-04T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T04:00:52","slug":"us-returned-only-eight-antiquities-during-pm-narendra-modis-visit-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=14543","title":{"rendered":"US returned eight antiquities during PM Narendra Modi\u2019s visit: Govt | The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"storycenterbyline\" class=\"editor\">The US has returned eight antiquities to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to Washington, government told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<p>The written reply came amid reports that the US had handed back over 200 cultural artifacts estimated at USD 100 million to India at a ceremony attended by the Prime Minister at Washington DC in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS authorities have returned only eight antiquities to the Prime Minister of India during his visit to the US,\u201d Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said in a written reply.<\/p>\n<p>On a query regarding the value of the returned antiquities in international market, he said, \u201cIt is not the mandate of Archaeological Survey of India to determine the market value of antiquities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said these antiquities, including a bronze image of Ganesha, were returned voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, during the PM\u2019s visit to the US in June, reports surfaced the over 200 cultural artifacts estimated were returned to India at a ceremony in Washington DC. It was reported that items returned included religious statues, bronzes and terra cotta pieces, some dating back 2,000 years, looted from some of India\u2019s most treasured religious sites.\u00a0\u201cFor some, these artifacts may be measured in monetary terms but for us this is beyond that. It\u2019s a part of our culture and heritage,\u201d the Prime Minister had said a ceremony held at the Blair House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has returned eight antiquities to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to Washington, government told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The written reply came amid reports that the US had handed back over 200 cultural artifacts estimated at USD 100 million to India at a ceremony attended by the Prime Minister at [&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":[18,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543"}],"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=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}