{"id":9476,"date":"2010-09-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/02\/hindus-in-bangladesh-celebrate-janmashtami\/"},"modified":"2010-09-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-in-bangladesh-celebrate-janmashtami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/02\/hindus-in-bangladesh-celebrate-janmashtami\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus in Bangladesh Celebrate Janmashtami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/hindus-in-bangladesh-celebrate-janmashtami-news-international-kjbn4cegicg.html\">sify.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGLADESH, September 2, 2010: Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna, is being celebrated Wednesday across Muslim-majority Bangladesh. The day&#8217;s programmes include worship of Lord Krishna, puja, Gita Jagna, kirtan, discussions and peace processions. The day is a public holiday in the country. Bangladesh has the third largest population of Hindus, who constitute less than 10 percent of the 156 million people.<\/p>\n<p>President Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have greeted the minority Hindu community on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, however, coincides with Ramadan, the holy month of the Muslims. Home Minister Sahera Khatun had earlier requested the Hindus to complete their festivities by 5 p.m., in time for the breaking of fast by the Muslims, a statement that had been criticized by the country&#8217;s media as discriminatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: sify.com BANGLADESH, September 2, 2010: Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna, is being celebrated Wednesday across Muslim-majority Bangladesh. The,&#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-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","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=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}