{"id":127,"date":"2020-09-23T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/?p=127"},"modified":"2020-11-03T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:42:38","slug":"pm-modi-addresses-iit-g-virtual-convocation-student-avatars-get-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/2020\/09\/23\/pm-modi-addresses-iit-g-virtual-convocation-student-avatars-get-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi addresses IIT-G virtual Convocation; Student avatars get medals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GUWAHATI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi  addressed the 22nd convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , Guwahati through video-conferencing on Tuesday, 22nd September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time in the history of northeast India,  a digital medal distribution ceremony  as an alternative to a physical one was organised in order to maintain social distancing in view of covid-19 pandemic.  Digital Avatars of students received  their diploma certificates from the Avatar of  the institute director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the photograph session,   space was created by the institute with choices of completely different backgrounds of the campus in order  facilitating the students  to choose a suitable background of their choice for the photograph. This software enabled the students to have a virtual tour of the campus, navigate through different buildings and share memories. Around 500 students interacted with each other virtually<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 22nd convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , Guwahati through video-conferencing on Tuesday, 22nd September 2020. For the first time in the history of northeast India, a digital medal distribution ceremony as an alternative to a physical one was organised in order to maintain social distancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-main-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}