{"id":110166,"date":"2026-05-17T08:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/recipe-for-ecological-disaster-congress-writes-to-rajnath-singh-on-great-nicobar-project\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:35:43","slug":"recipe-for-ecological-disaster-congress-writes-to-rajnath-singh-on-great-nicobar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/recipe-for-ecological-disaster-congress-writes-to-rajnath-singh-on-great-nicobar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Recipe for ecological disaster\u2019: Congress writes to Rajnath Singh on Great Nicobar project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has urged Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to reconsider the Great Nicobar Island Project, deeming it an &#8220;ecological disaster.&#8221; He argued that while strengthening defence is crucial, the project&#8217;s commercial aspects outweigh security needs and could harm the region&#8217;s ecology and tribal rights. Ramesh proposed alternative infrastructure expansions with lower environmental impacts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has urged Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to reconsider the Great Nicobar Island Project, deeming it an &#8220;ecological disaster.&#8221; He argued that while strengthening defence is crucial, the project&#8217;s commercial aspects outweigh security needs and could harm the region&#8217;s ecology and tribal rights. Ramesh proposed alternative infrastructure expansions with lower environmental impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":110167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}