{"id":5076,"date":"2020-11-20T04:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T04:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2020-11-20T04:23:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T04:23:40","slug":"armed-forces-day-to-be-celebrated-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2020\/11\/20\/armed-forces-day-to-be-celebrated-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Forces Day to be celebrated on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-details\">\n<p>The Armed Forces Day will be celebrated through various programmes on Saturday (November 21) amid festivity and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>The day\u2019s programme will begin with offering of special prayers after Fazr prayers at all mosques in all the cantonments, naval and<br \/>\nair force bases throughout the country on the day, seeking divine blessings for the well-being and prosperity of the nation and progress<br \/>\nof the armed forces, an ISPR press release said.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the day, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will issue separate messages while Prime<br \/>\nMinister\u2019s speech, marking the Armed Forces Day-2020, will be telecasted through Bangladesh Television at 7.30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the day\u2019s programme, military secretary of the President, on behalf of him, and military secretary of the Prime<br \/>\nMinister, on behalf of her, will place wreaths at the Shikha Anirban (the Eternal Flame) at Dhaka Cantonment on Saturday morning, paying<br \/>\nhomage to the martyred armed forces\u2019 members who laid down their lives in the Liberation War in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Army Chief General Aziz Ahmed, Navy Chief Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal, and Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat<br \/>\nwill place wreaths at the Shikha Anirban on behalf of their respective forces.<\/p>\n<p>Chiefs of the three services will also call on President at the Bangabhaban and Prime Minster at Ganabhaban on the day. Prime<br \/>\nMinister\u2019s Security Affairs Adviser Major General (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique and Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division will<br \/>\nbe present at the meeting with the premier.<br \/>\nThe authorities, however, decided to celebrate the day this year in a limited scale due to the global pandemic coronavirus. Therefore,<br \/>\nBangladesh Navy Ships (BNS) in Dhaka, Khulna, Chandpur, Barishal and Chattogram will not be open for the general people this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"images\">\n<div class=\"adv-img text-center hidden-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-2189815-7\" class=\"text-center\" data-google-query-id=\"CMmP6MOikO0CFRoHtwAdsGwPrA\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armed Forces Day will be celebrated through various programmes on Saturday (November 21) amid festivity and enthusiasm. The day\u2019s programme will begin with offering of special prayers after Fazr prayers at all mosques in all the cantonments, naval and air force bases throughout the country on the day, seeking divine blessings for the well-being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5077,"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\/5076"}],"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=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}