{"id":34338,"date":"2013-02-21T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T07:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=34338"},"modified":"2013-02-21T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T07:58:49","slug":"britain-wont-return-105-carat-kohinoor-diamond-to-india-34338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/britain-wont-return-105-carat-kohinoor-diamond-to-india-34338\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain won\u2019t return 105-carat Kohinoor diamond to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34339\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kohinoor-Diamond-Nationalturk-21.jpg\" alt=\"India has been demanding return of Kohinoor diamond.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kohinoor-Diamond-Nationalturk-21.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kohinoor-Diamond-Nationalturk-21-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kohinoor-Diamond-Nationalturk-21-280x186.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">India has been demanding return of Kohinoor diamond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>In a major setback to India, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said \u00a0his country will not hand over the giant 105-carat Kohinoor diamond to India.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, Feb 21: In a major setback to Indian efforts to seek return of 105-carat Kohinoor diamond from United Kingdom, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that his country will not hand over the giant diamond to India, India\u2019s newspaper Times of India has reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the right approach,&#8221; Cameron, who is presently on a visit to India, told reporters yesterday in Indian city of \u00a0Amritsar \u00a0when asked whether United Kingdom will return the 105-carat Kohinoor diamond to India.<\/p>\n<p>He said the right answer is for the British Museum and other cultural institutions to do exactly what they do, which is to link up with other institutions around the world to make sure that the things which we have and look after so well are properly shared with people around the world. \u201cI certainly don&#8217;t believe in returnism, as it were. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s sensible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Kohinoor diamond is now on display in Tower of London<\/h2>\n<p>The 105-carat Kohinoor diamond, which was forcibly taken by British rulers from India during colonial era, is now on display in the Tower of London. The diamond had been set in the crown of the current Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s late mother. Britain&#8217;s then colonial governor-general of India arranged for the huge diamond to be presented to Queen Victoria in 1850.<\/p>\n<p>It is said to be one of the world\u2019s largest diamonds and Indian leaders have been continuously demanding its return to country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major setback to India, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said  his country will not hand over the giant 105-carat Kohinoor diamond to India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,68,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[46355,1963,46357,9504,46361,46362,46364,46358,11811,46352,46365,46351,2546,46350,10233,41296,46356,46359,46360,46354,46363,7832],"class_list":["post-34338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-amritsar-city","tag-britain","tag-british-museum","tag-british-prime-minister-david-cameron","tag-british-rulers","tag-colonial-era","tag-crown","tag-cultural-institutions","tag-diamond","tag-giant-diamond","tag-governor-general-of-india","tag-hand-over","tag-india","tag-kohinoor","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-queen-victoria","tag-return","tag-returnism","tag-sensible","tag-times-of-india-right-approach","tag-tower-of-london","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}