{"id":11964,"date":"2016-01-15T12:10:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T12:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/?p=11964"},"modified":"2016-01-18T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:52:08","slug":"bloomin-heck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/15\/bloomin-heck\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloom\u2019in Heck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British poster-boy Orlando Bloom was denied entry to\u00a0India\u00a0at Delhi airport and was forced to return to the UK immediately after he landed in the southern subcontinent without a visa, despite being invited by Indian government officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates of the Caribbean actor had been invited to India by Chief Minister of the Uttar Pradesh region, Akhilesh Yadav, as part of a drive to generate more tourism, but things turned sour when Bloom was reportedly turned away upon arrival at Delhi&#8217;s Gandhi International Airport because of \u201cdeficiencies in his electronic tourist visa&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once the Indian authorities learned of the mix-up, Bloom was at last able to enter India, after the external affairs ministry intervened and gave him a special visa causing him to make his second long haul trip to Delhi in two days.<\/p>\n<p>A senior airport official said: \u201cThe arrogant behavior of Immigration officials has dented India&#8217;s image globally as they deliberately deported him even when they had other options to allow him to stay here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British poster-boy Orlando Bloom was denied entry to\u00a0India\u00a0at Delhi airport and was forced to return to the UK immediately after he landed in the southern subcontinent without a visa, despite being invited by Indian government officials. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor had been invited to India by Chief Minister of the Uttar Pradesh region, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desixpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}