{"id":13361,"date":"2014-02-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/02\/27\/security-high-for-sivaratri-in-banaras\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:00:00","slug":"security-high-for-sivaratri-in-banaras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/02\/27\/security-high-for-sivaratri-in-banaras\/","title":{"rendered":"Security High for Sivaratri in Banaras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/news\/uttar-pradesh\/tight-security-arrangements-for-maha-shivaratri-in-varanasi_914212.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANARAS, INDIA, February 24, 2014 (Zee News India): Elaborate security arrangements have been made in view large number of devotees visiting Kashi-Vishwanath temple here on the occasion of Maha Sivratri festival on Thursday, Inspector General of Police (IG range Varanasi) Prakash D. told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than 500,000 devotees are expected to visit the Kashi-Vishwanath temple on the day. Last year about 400,000 devotees visited the temple and this time we are expecting a rise in their numbers,&#8221; he said. Special arrangements have been made for the smooth movements of devotees, sign boards at various diversions are being fixed and a temporary cloak room has been been set up at Godwalia, he said. The officer said the area around the temple has been declared &#8216;no traffic zone&#8217; and vehicular traffic would be prohibited from midnight. The IG denied any kind of threat inputs by the intelligence agencies on the day, as reported in a section of media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BANARAS, INDIA, February 24, 2014 (Zee News India): Elaborate security arrangements have been made in view large number of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}