{"id":56730,"date":"2019-12-30T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56730"},"modified":"2019-12-30T08:03:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:03:58","slug":"bangladesh-records-lowest-temperature-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56730","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Records Lowest Temperature This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DHAKA, Dec 30 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladesh recorded the lowest temperature of this year on Sunday, as mercury dipped to a chilling 4.5 degrees Celsius, in the country&#8217;s northernmost Tentulia region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The severe cold brought normal life and businesses to almost a standstill in parts of Bangladesh, specially in the northern region facing the Himalayan mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Meteorologist, Ruhul Quddus, told media that, mercury plunged to its lowest 4.5 degrees Celsius in Tentulia, 468 km away from the capital, Dhaka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) recorded Dhaka&#8217;s temperature at 12.5 degrees Celsius on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quddus said, a light to moderate cold wave was sweeping through parts of Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to dense fog, sunlight in the northern Bangladesh districts was completely absent, while cars and buses were running by switching on headlights in the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sickness is, however, rampant among poor and floating people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a state agency report, as many as 50 people have died in the country, since Nov 1, by cold-related diseases.&#8211; NNN-BSS  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Dec 30 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladesh recorded the lowest temperature of this year on Sunday, as mercury dipped to a chilling 4.5 degrees Celsius, in the country&#8217;s northernmost Tentulia region. The severe cold brought normal life and businesses to almost a standstill in parts of Bangladesh, specially in the northern region facing the Himalayan mountains. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56730"}],"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=56730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}