{"id":3908,"date":"2020-03-11T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.jonotarsomoy.com\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2020-03-11T16:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:43:26","slug":"nation-to-observe1minute-blackout-on-march-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2020\/03\/11\/nation-to-observe1minute-blackout-on-march-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation to observe1minute \u2018blackout\u2019 on March 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation will observe a one-minute \u2018blackout\u2019 programme on March 25, marking \u2018Genocide Day,\u2019 said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Minister said this after emerging from a meeting held at the conference room of the Home ministry with top officials of law enforcement agencies concerning observing \u2018Genocide Day\u2019 on March 25 and Independence Day on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>Discouraging people to participate in an open function and join public gatherings in order to prevent the spread of the fast-spreading coronavirus (COVID-19), Asaduzzaman said, \u201cWe\u2019ll observe a symbolic one-minute blackout programme on March 25 night from 9:00pm to 9:01pm to pay tribute to the martyrs on the occasion of \u2018Genocide Day\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional security measures will be taken at significant monuments, including Savar National Mausoleum, Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Rayerbazar, and Suhrawardy Udyan, he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, vehicles and emergency services will remain outside the purview of the programme, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation will observe a one-minute \u2018blackout\u2019 programme on March 25, marking \u2018Genocide Day,\u2019 said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Wednesday. The Home Minister said this after emerging from a meeting held at the conference room of the Home ministry with top officials of law enforcement agencies concerning observing \u2018Genocide Day\u2019 on March 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}