{"id":260442,"date":"2024-04-10T12:18:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T04:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=260442"},"modified":"2024-04-10T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T04:23:34","slug":"bangladeshs-annual-exodus-starts-ahead-of-eid-al-fitr-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=260442","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s Annual Exodus Starts Ahead Of Eid Al-Fitr Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DHAKA, Apr 10 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; A rush of home-goers continued at bus terminals and railway stations in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital, Dhaka yesterday, two days before Eid al-Fitr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Muslim majority in Bangladesh will celebrate Eid-al-Fitr tomorrow, decided by the National Moon Sighting Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traffic has begun to build up on major roads out of Dhaka. Many residents have started their journey home days earlier to avoid the mad rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While passengers crowded ferry, train and bus terminals, other city residents who had their own cars or hired vehicles were making their last-minute shopping and business transactions, before their long road trip home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like previous years, sufferings of home-goers reportedly worsened with long tailbacks on all highways connecting Dhaka, because of a heavy rush of outbound buses. Lots of people risked their lives by clinging perilously on the rails of ferries and trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to some estimates, millions of people leave Dhaka twice in a year on Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, a festival of animal sacrifice.&#8211; NNN-BSS &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Apr 10 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; A rush of home-goers continued at bus terminals and railway stations in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital, Dhaka yesterday, two days before Eid al-Fitr. The Muslim majority in Bangladesh will celebrate Eid-al-Fitr tomorrow, decided by the National Moon Sighting Committee. Traffic has begun to build up on major roads out of Dhaka. Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":260444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,287,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260445,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260442\/revisions\/260445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}